082901 Burning Man IV, Black Rock City, NV
August 29th, 2001 was the fourth day of my one and only journey to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert…
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082801 Burning Man III, Black Rock City, NV
The reason why I consistently refer to Burning Man as an art/life/wackiness festival is primarily because of the Camps…
082701 Burning Man II, Black Rock City, NV
On August 27th, 2001 I woke up at Burning Man for the first time…
082520 Gatherall’s Puffin & Whale Tour, Bay Bulls, NL
In August of 2020 m’lady and I hosted my brother and his wife at our new old house in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. They suggested we join them on a puffin/whale tour so of course we jumped…
082403 Trout Fishing in America/Jane Siberry, Ottawa, ON
I’m not sure exactly what date I might have attended the 2003 Ottawa Folk Festival but a little research suggests it might have been August 24th, for it was on that day that Jane Siberry and Trout Fishing in America played…
082399 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
On August 23rd, 1999 I saw the great Bill Frisell at Ottawa’s legendary Barrymore’s Music Hall. This wouldn’t be the last concert I saw in the old decaying theatre but it was among them…
082213 Black Sabbath, Vancouver, BC
M’lady and I had been circuiting through the United States seeing a cornucopia of concerts (of course) and we had one more show left on our itinerary…
082117 Guns N’ Roses, Ottawa, ON
On August 21st, 2017, as my regular morning bike ride took me past Lansdowne Park it occurred to me I had only seen Guns N’ Roses once, and that had been twenty-five years before. So when I arrived home and saw that ticket prices had dropped to just $50 for the cheap seats (+40% in fees) I bit…
081913 Chihuly Garden/Space Needle, Seattle, WA
I don’t recall when or how I became a fan of Dale Chihuly’s work…
081893 Neil Young with Booker T and the MG’s/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Blues Traveler, Toronto, ON
Blues Traveler, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and the great Neil Young who was fronting Booker T and the MG’s, all in an outdoor stadium on a beautiful day; it was a dreamy lineup…
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