051113 Big Mama, Ottawa, ON
Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
Category: Ticket Stories
051011 Neil Young/Bert Jansch, Toronto, ON
Leave it to Neil Young to book folk legend Bert Jansch (1943-2011) to open the show – a classy pairing that would prove to be one of Bert’s last tours…
050906 Drums & Tuba/Dave Lauzon, Ottawa, ON
I believe this might mark the last time I saw Drums & Tuba, a quirky-by-definition trio that first came to my attention at an Ani DiFranco concert on this exact date in ’99…
050816 Pearl Jam, Ottawa, ON
It’s great to see a band when they are still on top of their game, even if they’ve been there for a quarter of a century. I don’t know how it took so long for me to jump on this band’s wagon but I will definitely be seeing Pearl Jam again and again and as often as I can from now on…
050715 Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection, Miami, FL
I love classic cars, I’m really into movie memorabilia, and I’m a sucker for a good museum visit so with a few days to kill in Miami I was happy to dedicate a full afternoon to the Dezer Collection…
050414 Dead Feat, New Orleans, LA
The concert was a conglomeration of musicians called Dead Feat, a ‘super-group’ of sorts that pairs members of Little Feat and The Grateful Dead with a few local heroes solely for a single (albeit annual) New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival aftershow…
050314 Dr. John Tribute, New Orleans, LA
The lineup for this amazing tribute concert was scheduled to include the likes of Mavis Staples, Jimmie Vaughan, Gregg Allman, Lucinda Williams, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Warren Haynes and so many more, not to mention the man himself, Dr. John…
050209 The Tragically Hip, Montreal, QC
On May 2nd, 2009 I drove from Ottawa to Montreal to see The Tragically Hip at Metropolis. Although Montreal has a lot of great small-to-midsized venues, when bands come to town that ought to be playing the Centre Bell but wants to play somewhere more intimate they always seem to book into Metropolis. The semi-regular opportunity to see arena-level bands in a nice, 2,000-person capacity balconied theatre easily pushes Metropolis to the top of my preferred Montreal concert halls…
050114 Dumpstaphunk/Soulive/Lettuce, New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is legendary, and while the festival that takes place on the fairgrounds is outstanding enough all by itself, it’s the countless aftershows that happen nightly throughout the world’s most notorious music city that really amps things up…
043010 Mark Knopfler, Montreal, QC
On April 30th, 2010 I woke up in some hotel or another in Montreal following an orchestral Peter Gabriel concert at the big hockey rink downtown. I have no idea how I spent my day – though I suspect it involved a significant amount of poutine – but I know I spent my evening in the presence of one of my favourite rock guitar players, the great Mark Knopfler…
