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Author: Todd Snelgrove

I've been having a lot of fun these past fifty-odd years. I've busked and bicycled through more places I can count, taught music and caught dengue fever, managed a band that toured all over North America and worked with Canada's National Orchestra for two decades. I've traveled countless miles to see a thousand concerts, played hundreds of gigs, won in Vegas and lost in Estonia, worked as a concert promoter, university instructor, janitor, and entertainment writer, seen the Grateful Dead and hiked the Dogon Valley, ran the stairs of the CN Tower and pedalled across Scandinavia once and Newfoundland twice. I've visited the graves of Alexander the Great and the great Robert Johnson, drunk excessively with some of the best and worst people you can imagine, and I've slept in some very, very weird places. Several years ago I started writing some of it down, and much of it is collected here for your perusal.
July 21, 2024 Marillion / The Gutterboys / Ticket Stories

020690 Marillion/The Gutterboys, Ottawa, ON

Allow me to direct your attention to February 6th, 1990, when my band opened up for British prog-rockers Marillion at Ottawa’s then-favourite live music theatre, Barrymore’s Music Hall…

July 20, 2024 Honeymoon Suite / Kim Mitchell / Loverboy / Ticket Stories / Trooper

072018 Loverboy/Honeymoon Suite/Trooper, Kemptville, ON

When I arrived I was told that Kim Mitchell had cancelled his appearance that very morning, only to be replaced by Honeymoon Suite…

July 19, 2024 BITB Instructors Band / The Tea Party / Ticket Stories / Weird Al Yankovic

071915 “Weird Al” Yankovic/The Tea Party/BITB Instructors Band, Ottawa, ON

My lifelong penchant for novelty music and my long-standing appreciation of much of Yankovic’s work had me standing in the field steep in anticipation…

July 18, 2024 David Wilcox / Kim Mitchell / Ticket Stories

071819 Kim Mitchell/David Wilcox, Kemptville, ON

Anyone that knows me knows that I love Kim Mitchell…

July 17, 2024 Cake / Ticket Stories

071709 Cake, Ottawa, ON

I enjoyed every minute of Cake’s set…

July 16, 2024 Duran Duran / HOLY F*CK / Ticket Stories

071616 Duran Duran/HOLY F*CK, Ottawa, ON

Until Duran Duran booked into the 2016 Ottawa Bluesfest I had no idea Duran Duranheadedness was even a thing…

July 15, 2024 Big Space / Olive Eve Fortune / Ticket Stories

071523 Big Space/Olive Eve Fortune, St. John’s, NL

Big Space was my new favourite local band, a monstrously talented instrumental improvisational prog-jazz trio who had released their debut album just a week before…

July 14, 2024 Santana / Steve Winwood / Ticket Stories

071410 Steve Winwood/Santana, Ottawa, ON

Light and Love…

July 13, 2024 Duane Andrews / Isaac Andrews-Power / Ticket Stories

071323 Duane Andrews and the Hot Club of Conception Bay, Carbonear, NL

I tell you, Duane Andrews is the real deal…

July 12, 2024 Choir! Choir! Choir! / Gary Clark Jr. / LCD Soundsystem / The Shins / Ticket Stories

071217 Gary Clark Jr./LCD Soundsystem/Choir! Choir! Choir!/(The Shins), Ottawa, ON

I’ve been fortunate to receive a free Bluesfest pass for the last several years…

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