020411 Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY
Regardless of one’s stance on the sport he championed it is a widely accepted fact that Muhammad Ali was an icon and a hero…
Category: Ticket Stories
020394 Meat Loaf, Hull, QC
On February 3rd, 1994 I went to see Meat Loaf for the first time…
020201 Steve Earle & The Dukes, Ottawa, ON
The venue was in a carpeted salon area that I would eventually come to know as the home of the Civic Centre’s annual Christmas craft sale…
020224 Mike Lynch/Liam Small, Harbour Grace, NL
Pop your head into any shed party across the island and you’ll surely find a Cecil O’Brien inside, bent crooked with age and telling tales in rapid-fire, barely intelligible dialect…
020188 FM, Moncton, NB
On February 1st, 1988 I went to Moncton’s Club Cosmopolitan (The Cosmo, we called it) to see Canadian non-icons FM in concert. It’s not like I was a big fan of the band…
012602 Don Ross/Bob Wiseman, Ottawa, ON
On January 26th, 2002 I furthered my burgeoning career as an young, ambitious, and increasingly cocky concert promoter…
012515 Trombone Shorty, New Orleans, LA
Mr. Shorty (who is anything but short) is a demigod around New Orleans…
012415 Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA
Preservation Hall in New Orleans must be the most understated famous venue in America…
012305 Cienciano (Cuzco) vs Unión Española (Santiago), Cuzco, Peru
On January 23rd, 2005 I was cooling my heels in Cuzco, Peru, which is at an elevation of 3,400 metres. I promised myself I wouldn’t drink until I had climatized to the thin air, however…
012100 Don Ross/Bob Wiseman, Ottawa, ON
This is ticket #1 from a show that I promoted my very own self, a scary and thrilling project that brought together the amazing Baba Wizemana and the incredible Don Ross for the very first (and only?) time along with hundreds of eager music fans in the Alumni Theatre…
