101504 The Slip/Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed, Hamilton, ON
October 15th, 2004: The Slip with Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed at Pepperjacks in Hamilton, Ontario…
Category: Ticket Stories
101417 NACO featuring John Storgårds plays Sibelius and Saariaho, Ottawa, ON
On October 14th, 2017 I attending this concert alongside my standard NAC-buddy JP and our tickets were in the second box, stage right. I was in great seats with great company, perched above the new-and-improved National Arts Centre and hearing the orchestra for the first time of the season.
101201 Hawksley Workman/Martina Sorbara, Ottawa, ON
For a brief time I became casually smitten with Hawksley Workman, so seeing him at my one-time favourite local venue on October 11th, 2001 was a slam dunk…
101105 Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Ottawa, ON
It’s really too bad that the great Ravi Shankar is no longer walking this Earth, but every time I hear a sitar I think of him so I suppose in that sense he’s still here. Or there. Or wherever…
101005 Sir Paul McCartney/The Sisters Euclid, Toronto, ON
On October 10th, 2005 I drove to Toronto with some friends to see Sir Paul McCartney for the first time…
100898 Ed Bickert, Ottawa, ON
This Ed Bickert concert on October 8th, 1998 might mark the only time I saw a show at After 8, a truly beautiful bar in a prime location on Wellington Street, it’s front doors directly across the street from the front doors of Parliament’s Centre Block…
100711 CR Avery, Ottawa, ON
On October 7th, 2011 I hosted a group of friends, music fans, and anyone I could fervently convince that they would be very, very remiss in missing a show by CR Avery in a small, unusual venue in the heart of Ottawa, and just steps from my house taboot…
100605 IMAX: NASCAR, Gatineau, QC
On October 6th, 2005 I went to IMAX to see their NASCAR movie, but I shouldn’t have…
100512 Neil Young & Crazy Horse/Los Lobos, Kingston, ON
On October 5th, 2012 I drove to Kingston to see Neil Young and Crazy Horse…
100403 Megan and Mike’s Wedding, Ottawa, ON
Though I’ve been to some awesome weddings Mike and Megan’s was the only one that felt like a concert, and a really good one at that…
