070811 The Black Keys/Harper and Midwest Kind/Hey Rosetta!/Wanda Jackson/Cavaliers/Blue King Brown, Ottawa, ON
The rain grew steadily worse as I rushed to the main stage…
Category: Ticket Stories
070712 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY
Are you sitting down…
091323 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery really punches above its weight…
091223 Daniel Lanois/Pallmer, Fredericton, NB
I parked directly behind the Fredericton Playhouse and discovered that they hadn’t even opened the doors yet, so I took a stroll down memory lane…
062510 Bill Frisell/Herbie Hancock, Ottawa, ON
In pondering these ticket stories I am often struck by a noticeable amount of overlap…
091014 Blues Traveler/Fred Penner/Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Ottawa, ON
Since I saw so little of the fest it would be remiss of me to write up reports for each day so I will heap the week onto one day: September 10th, 2014…
070594 Phish, Ottawa, ON
The show was a mind-bending display of musical and instrumental pyrotechnics that poured out of the four guys in a never-ending cavalcade of shock and surprise…
062903 The Dead/moe./Willie Nelson, Vernon, NY
On June 29th, 2003 I was in Vernon, New York for an all-day triple-bill starring moe., Willie Nelson, and The Dead…
090792 Moxy Früvous, Ottawa, ON
As far as I can tell, it was the coming together of three unlikely factors that explain the equally unlikely rise of Moxy Früvous…
070299 The Paul Motian Trio featuring Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell, Montreal, QC
On July 2nd, 1999 I was one of a tri-generational trio of guitar geeks that made the drive to Montreal to see Bill Frisell…
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