052716 Phil & Friends, Port Chester, NY
Anyone who has read a handful of these dispatches knows that I have a thing for Phil Lesh’s bass playing…
Category: Ticket Stories
062911 Paco de Lucía, Ottawa, ON
Paco was a breakthrough virtuoso musician who became the poster child for his discipline…
062814 Aretha Franklin/Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ottawa, ON
After a lifetime of yearning and a year of waiting, on June 28th, 2014 I finally got to see the incomparable Aretha Franklin perform live…
071705 John Prine/David Lindley/Bill Frisell/Harry Manx/Sonny Landreth, Ottawa, ON
John Prine was so good I think he might have put on the best set of the whole festival…
070316 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY
This was the third evening of a triple-header…
062515 Steve Miller/Ikebe Shakedown, Ottawa, ON
I wonder what it must be like to be Steve Miller…
062611 Soulive, Ottawa, ON
On June 26th, 2011 I headed down to the Ottawa Jazz Festival for a short evening of tall entertainment…
071014 Blondie/Procol Harum with the National Arts Centre Orchestra/John Mayall/The Band Perry, Ottawa, ON
It doesn’t matter how you cut it, July 10th, 2014 was a pretty amazing night at the Ottawa Bluesfest…
071207 Ndidi Onukwulu, Ottawa, ON
As many of my friends are quite aware, I have a curious and rather unprecedented hate-on for Blue Rodeo…
070706 Great Big Sea/Calexico/Seu Jorge/Tony D/Broken Social Scene/MALAJUBE/James Cohen, Ottawa, ON
July 7th was the opening day of the 2006 edition of the Ottawa Bluesfest. I was onsite early, I stayed late, and I saw just about every act on offer in between…
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