Daily ticket stories
The Capital Music Hall was a large venue right downtown on Ottawa’s Rideau Street, just across from Maverick’s and Cafe Dekcuf/The Whipping Post. It was a big room with a professional stage and lighting rig and was unquestionably a concert hall. It looked a lot like a House Of Blues or some such thing, and though it was open for several years I think I only went there twice…
On April 15th, 2011 I saw Bruce Cockburn at the soft-seat hexagon that is the National Arts Centre. It’s a pretty great room to see a performer like Cockburn, that is once you manage to get up and down the unforgivable slanted staircases that run throughout the venue in strict adherence to the architects apparent love of the six-sided polygon…
This concert was my first time seeing both BW and BNL so yeah, it was pretty epic for me…
I think the Neil Young concert on April 13th, 2009 was my first time in the K-Rock Centre. Regardless, the arena had been open for business for barely a year at the time and I soon found out that they didn’t quite have their act together yet…
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show at the Domchalm that didn’t impress me. And for a grumpy old concert curmudgeon like me that’s saying something…
April 11th, 2000 was the last time I had the honour and privilege to hear the great, great Oscar Peterson play the piano…
There’s a chance that April 10th, 1988 was the strangest night of live entertainment I’ve seen…
When a friend told me that Steve Martin was going out on a minitour with Martin Short I immediately searched for tickets and had my heart broken. The half-dozen or so dates were all pretty far away and most importantly they were all sold out…
The Higher Ground people are famous for their tight security at the door and it always takes longer than you think it will to get it, no matter how many times you (or in this case, I) go through the process. And for some reason it’s always (always!) much colder waiting in that line than you think it will be…
Very close to the end of my final year of university it came to my attention that we music students were required to join an extracurricular performance group (of our choosing) every year, or else we wouldn’t be allowed to graduate…
