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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 5, 2023 Ticket Stories / Trey Anastasio

101519 Trey Anastasio, Geneva, NY

We woke up in a castle with a solo Trey show on the schedule, which was pretty freakin’ awesome…

June 4, 2023 The Brothers Creeggan / Ticket Stories

101699 The Brothers Creeggan, Ottawa, ON

When I saw that The Brothers Creeggan were coming to Ottawa on I jumped at the chance to see them…

June 3, 2023 sports / Ticket Stories

060384 Blue Jays vs Yankees, Toronto, ON

This ticket stub doesn’t provide a whole lot of information on its own…

June 2, 2023 Bill Frisell / Harry Manx / Kaki King / New York Dolls / Ticket Stories

071605 New York Dolls/Bill Frisell/Harry Manx/Kaki King, Ottawa, ON

I’d like to say that the set was brilliant, with Frisell weaving his post-modern loops in and around old-timey country fiddle tunes and I’m sure it was, but…

June 1, 2023 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion / LP / The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

071113 The Tragically Hip/LP/Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ottawa, ON

On July 11th, 2013 I took in an evening at the Ottawa Bluesfest where I saw a trio of bands in ascending order of awesomeness…

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…

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