060604 moe./nero/Galactic/Xavier Rudd/Sweating Like Nixon, Buffalo, NY
The Pier Festival Grounds was a nice looking venue. It was on the water, sporting two stages and maybe five bars and several food stands…
Category: Ticket Stories
060395 Ian Anderson, Toronto, ON
On June 3rd, 1995 I went to see Ian Anderson at Massey Hall in Toronto. It was a pretty unique setting for the Jethro Tull frontman; rather than leading one of the many lineups of his ever-morphing legendary rock band the singer/songwriter/flautist/everythingist was fronting a New Age ensemble in support of his recent album Divinities…
051605 Joel Plaskett Emergency, Ottawa, ON
The Tulip Fest used to be an excellent little addition to Ottawa’s wide offering of annual music…
051417 Sangeet 2017, Ottawa, ON
As soon as that glorious, unmistakeable tabla/tamboura/sitar sound began I was instantly numbed…
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…
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…
033116 Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA
In so many ways, the Preservation Hall band just screams “New Orleans!” and it screams it loud. When you walk into the small, square room you’d swear that jazz had been living there forever…
032407 NACO plays The Wizard of Oz, Ottawa, ON
I went to the show, Dorothy and her pals were victorious, that sneaky little wizard learned a thing or two as did that wicked old witch, the orchestra was as great as usual, and of course those flying monkeys freaked me right out…
032219 Reign of Fire; C4 Wrestling, Ottawa, ON
On March 22nd, 2019 I was just sitting around the house twiddling my thumbs and minding my own business when a message came in from a friend:
“Last minute heads up…” it read, “I’ve started going to a monthly minor league “professional” wrestling event…”
And just like that he had my undivided attention…
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