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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 6, 2023 Be In The Band Showcase / Cheap Trick / George Porter Jr. / The Funky Meters / Ticket Stories

071711 Cheap Trick/The Funky Meters/Be In The Band Showcase, Ottawa, ON

July 17th, 2011 was a big day at the Ottawa Bluesfest…

May 4, 2023 Mike Gordon / Phil Lesh / Ticket Stories

080113 Phil Lesh & The Terrapin All Stars, San Rafael, CA

When was the last time you went to a show where people were openly crying their eyes out…

May 3, 2023 Bruce Springsteen / John Fogerty / Rickie Lee Jones / Ticket Stories

050314 Bruce Springsteen, New Orleans, LA

Though the sit-ins were great – especially Fogerty – Springsteen doesn’t actual require any help…

May 2, 2023 Drive-By Truckers / Ticket Stories

050214 Drive-By Truckers, New Orleans, LA

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is a marathon…

May 1, 2023 Cirque du Soleil / Ticket Stories

050110 Cirque du Soleil: Totem, Montreal, QC

It was funny, it was heavy, it was mind-bending and visually stunning; in short it was Cirque du Soleil…

April 30, 2023 Basia Bulat / Daniel Lanois / National Arts Centre Orchestra / Ticket Stories

043015 Daniel Lanois with the National Arts Centre Orchestra/Basia Bulat, Ottawa, ON

Lanois’ soothing songwriting style fit perfectly with the timbre of the lush orchestra…

April 29, 2023 Ticket Stories / tours

042922 Trinity Eco-Tours Iceberg Tour, Trinity, NL

When the Great Reopening of 2022 coincided with a very active and early iceberg season we decided to strike while the iron was hot…

April 28, 2023 sports / Ticket Stories

042807 WWF CN Tower Climb, Toronto, ON

Even at the ungodly half-hour of 6:30am the Trade & Convention Centre at the base of the tower was abuzz with unimaginable activity…

April 27, 2023 Bill Frisell / Ticket Stories

062407 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON

Despite what the ticket indicates I recall this show being a trio…

April 26, 2023 Seun Kuit & Egypt 80 / Ticket Stories

071008 Suen Kuti and Egypt 80, Ottawa, ON

Some of my ticket memories read like nothing more than the sordid confessions of a chronic Bluesfest set-jumper…

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