050219 NACO featuring Miloš Karadaglić/Howard Shore, Ottawa, ON
On May 2nd, 2019 I was pleasantly surprised to receive an offer to join a friend for a concert featuring a new guitar concerto commissioned by Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra…
Category: Ticket Stories
071106 Son Volt/JJ Grey & Mofro, Ottawa, ON
I only made it to Bluesfest in time for the closing slot of the night which left me to choose between Blue Rodeo, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Son Volt…
070922 Fretboard Journey/The Once/Rose Cousins/Shauit/The Salt Beef Junkies, St. John’s, NL
I had never been to Bannerman Park before but you couldn’t ask for a nicer setting for a folk festival…
071317 Alan Doyle, Ottawa, ON
Armed with my tiny, stealthy GoPro I cycled down to the Bluesfest site…
062416 The Barr Brothers/SFJAZZ Collective, Ottawa, ON
June 24th, 2016 was a pretty fine day to be at the Ottawa Jazz Festival…
062908 Brad Mehldau, Ottawa, ON
June 29th, 2008 was the final day of what had been a somewhat underwhelming edition of the Ottawa jazz festival…
070904 George Thorogood, Ottawa, ON
George Thorogood introduced the work of the blues masters to a whole generation…
083106 Stanislovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia
On August 31st, 2006 I was in St. Petersburg, Russia of all places…
070694 Pink Floyd, Toronto, ON
Luckily the concert had been postponed for a half-hour…
071206 Dickey Betts/Dan Bern/The Grande Mothers/The Slip, Ottawa, ON
The Dickey Betts Band was the main reason I and most of the people I knew were onsite…
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