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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 30, 2023 Anders Osborne / Bachir Attar / Canned Heat / Don McLean / Donna Summer / Redd Volkaert / Robert Randolph / Ticket Stories / Tony D

071308 Don McLean/Canned Heat/Robert Randolph/Donna Summer/Tony D/Anders Osborne/Redd Volkaert/Bachir Attar, Ottawa, ON

Another triumphant Bluesfest…

May 29, 2023 Phish / Ticket Stories

070211 Phish, Watkins Glen, NY

On July 2nd, 2011 I woke up in the temporary upper New York state campground that was the Watkins Glen Speedway…

May 28, 2023 Sherry Ryan / Ticket Stories

052822 Sherry Ryan, Freshwater, NL

Sherry Ryan didn’t have her band with her but she had brought a heck of a sideman in Lucas Rose…

May 27, 2023 Eric Krasno / Phil Lesh / Ticket Stories / Warren Haynes

052716 Phil & Friends, Port Chester, NY

Anyone who has read a handful of these dispatches knows that I have a thing for Phil Lesh’s bass playing…

May 26, 2023 Paco de Lucía / Ticket Stories

062911 Paco de Lucía, Ottawa, ON

Paco was a breakthrough virtuoso musician who became the poster child for his discipline…

May 25, 2023 Aretha Franklin / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble / Ticket Stories

062814 Aretha Franklin/Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ottawa, ON

After a lifetime of yearning and a year of waiting, on June 28th, 2014 I finally got to see the incomparable Aretha Franklin perform live…

May 24, 2023 Thomas Annand / Ticket Stories

052416 Thomas Annand, Ottawa, ON

Wind coursed through pipes massive and miniature producing a sound on the organ that was both elegant and terrifying…

May 23, 2023 Bill Frisell / David Lindley / Harry Manx / John Prine / Sonny Landreth / Ticket Stories

071705 John Prine/David Lindley/Bill Frisell/Harry Manx/Sonny Landreth, Ottawa, ON

John Prine was so good I think he might have put on the best set of the whole festival…

May 22, 2023 Store

I Forget Your Name

Nothing Personal

May 22, 2023 Phish / Ticket Stories

070316 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY

This was the third evening of a triple-header…

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