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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 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 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…

May 21, 2023 Ikebe Shakedown / Steve Miller / Ticket Stories

062515 Steve Miller/Ikebe Shakedown, Ottawa, ON

I wonder what it must be like to be Steve Miller…

May 19, 2023 Soulive / Ticket Stories

062611 Soulive, Ottawa, ON

On June 26th, 2011 I headed down to the Ottawa Jazz Festival for a short evening of tall entertainment…

May 18, 2023 Blondie / John Mayall / National Arts Centre Orchestra / Procol Harum / The Band Perry / Ticket Stories

071014 Blondie/Procol Harum with the National Arts Centre Orchestra/John Mayall/The Band Perry, Ottawa, ON

It doesn’t matter how you cut it, July 10th, 2014 was a pretty amazing night at the Ottawa Bluesfest…

May 17, 2023 Ndidi Onukwulu / Ticket Stories

071207 Ndidi Onukwulu, Ottawa, ON

As many of my friends are quite aware, I have a curious and rather unprecedented hate-on for Blue Rodeo…

May 12, 2023 Broken Social Scene / Calexico / Great Big Sea / James Cohen / MALAJUBE / Seu Jorge / Ticket Stories / Tony D

070706 Great Big Sea/Calexico/Seu Jorge/Tony D/Broken Social Scene/MALAJUBE/James Cohen, Ottawa, ON

July 7th was the opening day of the 2006 edition of the Ottawa Bluesfest.  I was onsite early, I stayed late, and I saw just about every act on offer in between…

May 11, 2023 Bruce Cockburn / The Roots / Ticket Stories

062015 Bruce Cockburn/The Roots, Ottawa, ON

I gotta say, the 2015 edition of the Ottawa jazz festival was pretty stacked…

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