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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.
June 28, 2024 The Bad Plus / The Herbaliser / Ticket Stories

062813 The Bad Plus/The Herbaliser, Ottawa, ON

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen The Bad Plus…

June 27, 2024 Bob Dylan / Gord Downie / Ticket Stories

062717 Bob Dylan, Kingston, ON

I was frozen, with my mouth slightly agape…

June 26, 2024 Marcus Miller / SMV / Stanley Clarke / Ticket Stories / Victor Wooten

062609 SMV, Ottawa, ON

Though SMV isn’t a very catchy band name, calling yourselves “Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten; Omigawd Can You Believe Three of the Hottest Bass Players Alive Are Touring Together,” would be a bit of a mouthful…

June 24, 2024 sports / Ticket Stories

062423 Pro-Line 250, Avondale, NL

The Pinty’s Pro-Line 250 stock car race is a big-ish bruh-haha that brings Canada’s nearly-NASCAR drivers out east for a spin around the local Newfoundland track…

June 23, 2024 Bill Frisell / Now This / Ticket Stories

062317 Bill Frisell/Now This, Ottawa, ON

Gosh, I love Bill Frisell…

June 22, 2024 Kamasi Washington / Ticket Stories

062216 Kamasi Washington, Ottawa, ON

At the last minute a good friend of mine told me I should definitely try to see this Kamasi Washington guy…

June 21, 2024 John Mayall / Robert Cray / The Barr Brothers / Ticket Stories

062112 The Barr Brothers/John Mayall/Robert Cray, Ottawa, ON

Years ago someone I worked with at the Ottawa Folklore Centre gave me a free jazz festival pass…

June 19, 2024 Phish / Ticket Stories

061910 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY

Get this: the band opened the first set with Tweezer Reprise…

June 17, 2024 galleries / museums / Ticket Stories

061718 Picasso Museum, Paris, France

After exploring room after room of Picasso’s sketches and smaller studies I entered a large room that held a woodcut of the full Guernica masterwork…

June 16, 2024 galleries / Ticket Stories

061612 Picasso exhibit, Toronto, ON

Driving home from a Ringo Starr concert in Niagara Falls I decided to stop in Toronto to see the touring Picasso exhibit…

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