062115 Chris Botti/Timber Timbre, Ottawa, ON
A viola player dies and finds himself banished to Hell. He takes his seat in the string section of a large orchestra and starts playing along…
Category: Ticket Stories
062008 Wynton Marsalis, Ottawa, ON
I gotta tell you, someone has got to have a lot of concerts under their belt to have seen a jazz heavyweight like Wynton Marsalis perform in a beautiful setting like Confederation Park on a pleasant summer’s eve and remember not a single thing about it…
061904 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY
I’ll tell you what I remember about June 19th, 2004…
061895 Grateful Dead/Bob Dylan, East Rutherford, NJ
At this point Jerry Garcia only had fourteen shows left in him…
061710 Phish, Hartford, CT
June 17th, 2010 was the first night of a two-night Phish run in Hartford, Connecticut. M’lady and I were staying with the Frayler’s…
061607 Sisters Euclid, Ottawa, ON
My friend’s wedding reception featured one of the most fun Sisters Euclid sets ever! In addition to tearing through a pile of their regular awesomeness that was quite familiar to most of us in the small, hand-picked crowd, the band tossed out a few fun nods to standard wedding band fare too…
061116 Must Stash Hat, Ottawa, ON
On June 11th, 2016 I rode my bike to Westboro in Ottawa’s west end to see Must Stash Hat in my friend’s backyard…
061002 Beau Dixon, Guelph, ON
Beau Dixon was the lead singer/rhythm guitarist/organ player for a rather remarkable Ottawa band from the early ’90’s called Freeway Band. These guys coagulated the burgeoning Ottawa hippie music scene with lineups around the block at every single gig they played and they were barely out of high school…
060913 The Rolling Stones, Montreal, QC
Sure I had seen the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary show in Brooklyn back when it was just a five-show tour and I even got tickets for their Toronto show when they announced a proper North American tour, but this is The Rolling Stones, and Montreal is so close to Ottawa I just couldn’t pass it up…
060716 The Starfleet Academy Experience, Ottawa, ON
On June 7th, 2016 I returned to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum for another romp through science fiction memorabilia masquerading as a museum exhibit, this one focussed on the Star Trek universe…
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