031023 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
I didn’t have much hope of actually getting to this concert…
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I didn’t have much hope of actually getting to this concert…
In pondering these ticket stories I am often struck by a noticeable amount of overlap…
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…
This was one of the best Bill Frisell concerts I’ve ever seen…
Gosh, I love Bill Frisell…
It seems that I’ve seen Bill Frisell fifteen times, but the show I saw him play at the Ottawa jazz festival on June 25th, 2014 was one of the more curious…
This was an evening of the sublime; one of the world’s most interesting guitar players playing some of the greatest pop songs ever written…
I’d like to say that the set was brilliant, with Frisell weaving his post-modern loops in and around old-timey country fiddle tunes and I’m sure it was, but…
John Prine was so good I think he might have put on the best set of the whole festival…
For this ticket story we’re going to have to go all the way back to the Second World War…