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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.
May 4, 2024 Al Di Meola / Ticket Stories

070409 Al Di Meola, Ottawa, ON

If I’m not mistaken I came into awareness of Al Di Meola through his association with John McLaughlin…

May 2, 2024 Howard Shore / Miloš Karadaglić / National Arts Centre Orchestra / Ticket Stories

050219 NACO featuring Miloš Karadaglić/Howard Shore, Ottawa, ON

On May 2nd, 2019 I was pleasantly surprised to receive an offer to join a friend for a concert featuring a new guitar concerto commissioned by Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra…

May 1, 2024 JJ Grey & Mofro / Son Volt / Ticket Stories

071106 Son Volt/JJ Grey & Mofro, Ottawa, ON

I only made it to Bluesfest in time for the closing slot of the night which left me to choose between Blue Rodeo, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Son Volt…

April 29, 2024 Craig Young / Duane Andrews / Fretboard Journey / Gordon Quinton / Rose Cousins / Sandy Morris / Shauit / The Once / The Salt Beef Junkies / Ticket Stories

070922 Fretboard Journey/The Once/Rose Cousins/Shauit/The Salt Beef Junkies, St. John’s, NL

I had never been to Bannerman Park before but you couldn’t ask for a nicer setting for a folk festival…

April 27, 2024 Alan Doyle / Ticket Stories

071317 Alan Doyle, Ottawa, ON

Armed with my tiny, stealthy GoPro I cycled down to the Bluesfest site…

April 26, 2024 SFJAZZ Collective / The Barr Brothers / Ticket Stories

062416 The Barr Brothers/SFJAZZ Collective, Ottawa, ON

June 24th, 2016 was a pretty fine day to be at the Ottawa Jazz Festival…

April 24, 2024 Brad Mehldau / Ticket Stories

062908 Brad Mehldau, Ottawa, ON

June 29th, 2008 was the final day of what had been a somewhat underwhelming edition of the Ottawa jazz festival…

April 23, 2024 George Thorogood / Ticket Stories

070904 George Thorogood, Ottawa, ON

George Thorogood introduced the work of the blues masters to a whole generation…

April 22, 2024 Stanislovsky / Ticket Stories

083106 Stanislovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia

On August 31st, 2006 I was in St. Petersburg, Russia of all places…

April 20, 2024 Pink Floyd / Ticket Stories

070694 Pink Floyd, Toronto, ON

Luckily the concert had been postponed for a half-hour…

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