071615 Mother Mother, Ottawa, ON
I attended the 2015 Ottawa Bluesfest rather sparingly, spending only seven of the eleven nights onsite…
Category: Ticket Stories
071516 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ottawa, ON
I took in the show from the calm and easy confines at the back of the concert field, an area that was lacking in any sort of edginess but was steep with shockingly good company and thick with festival beers…
071415 Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ottawa, ON
A short essay on how I convinced myself to trek down to the Ottawa Bluesfest just to see another old, tired classic rock band that has been past their prime since I was a kid…
071314 Goddo/Be In The Band Showcase, Ottawa, ON
I spent much of the final day of the 2014 Ottawa Bluesfest cat-herding and playing the guitar but somewhere in between I snuck over to the River Stage and caught most of Goddo’s set…
071211 John Fogerty, Ottawa, ON
What a great show, top-to-bottom, and a pretty good jerk chicken sandwich taboot. Gotta love Bluesfest…
071107 Steve Miller/Todd Snider, Ottawa, ON
This may have been my first time seeing Todd Snider since I first heard of him, when I opened for him at the Black Sheep in Quebec. That show had blown my head just about right off and this one verified Snider’s greatness…
071019 Phish, Uncasville, CT
When Phish announced that they would be playing a couple of back-to-back dates at a place called Mohegan Sun I’ll admit I had to sit down for a little info session with Mister Google…
070906 Spearhead/Solomon Burke/The Brazilian Girls/Ani DiFranco/Jamie Lidell/Jake Shimabukuro/Detroit Women/Amadou & Mariam, Ottawa, ON
On July 9th, 2006 I attended a long and splendid Sunday at the wonderful Ottawa Bluesfest…
070807 The White Stripes/Joel Plaskett Emergency/Bob Schneider, Ottawa, ON
On July 8th, 2007 the meat and potatoes of the day was the wonderfully odd and shockingly thunderous American duo The White Stripes.
070705 War, Ottawa, ON
War’s bandleader Lonnie Jordan led the ensemble with a fresh-feeling verve and sonic excitement that can only come from years and years of experience…
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