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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.
March 8, 2024 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

071004 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON

After reaching the pinnacle of Canrock The Hip kept hitting a confounding brick wall…

March 7, 2024 National Arts Centre Orchestra / Ticket Stories

030714 NACO featuring Amanda Forsyth, Ottawa, ON

This concert was a family affair, with the wonderfully talented ‘cellist Amanda Forsyth playing the music of her father (Malcolm Forsyth) under the baton of her husband, conductor Pinchas Zukerman…

March 6, 2024 Gloria Gaynor / KC & the Sunshine Band / Sister Sledge / Tavares / The Kentucky Headhunters / Ticket Stories

071606 KC & the Sunshine Band/Gloria Gaynor/Sister Sledge/Tavares/The Kentucky Headhunters, Ottawa, ON

I wonder how many of you would be surprised to know that I was a big disco fan…

March 5, 2024 Bill Kreutzmann / Bob Weir / Bruce Hornsby / Grateful Dead / Jeff Chimenti / Mickey Hart / Ticket Stories / Trey Anastasio

070515 Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead, Chicago, IL

Here I was at the end of my road with the Grateful Dead…

March 3, 2024 theatre / Ticket Stories

030323 I Forgive You, Ottawa, ON

I Forgive You was the most honest piece of art I have ever seen…

March 1, 2024 Rush / Strippers Union / Ticket Stories

071110 Rush/Strippers Union featuring Paul Langlois, Ottawa, ON

I just can’t overstate how important Rush was to my personal musical history…

February 29, 2024 Morrissey / Ticket Stories

081006 Morrissey, Oslo, Norway

I had never heard Morrissey before…

February 28, 2024 CR Avery / Grand Theft Bus / Keller Williams / Ticket Stories / Umphrey's McGee

071305 Umphrey’s McGee/CR Avery/Keller Williams/Grand Theft Bus, Ottawa, ON

July 13th, 2005 was the day that the Big Summer Classic was scheduled to arrive at Bluesfest…

February 27, 2024 Bob Wiseman / Jane Radmore / Ticket Stories / Us & Wilbur

070298 Bob Wiseman/Jane Radmore/Us & Wilbur, Ottawa, ON

July 2nd, 1998 was a pretty big day for me…

February 26, 2024 Bill Frisell / Ticket Stories

062514 Bill Frisell plays Go West, Ottawa, ON

It seems that I’ve seen Bill Frisell fifteen times, but the show I saw him play at the Ottawa jazz festival on June 25th, 2014 was one of the more curious…

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