062911 Paco de Lucía, Ottawa, ON
Paco was a breakthrough virtuoso musician who became the poster child for his discipline…
Tag: guitar
021692 The Hippodrome, Bangkok, Thailand
The following story doesn’t at all fall into the usual parameters of these ticket stub memories but I would feel remiss in excluding this…
041790 George Thorogood, Ottawa, ON
Thorogood raged his hits (which are mostly the hits of others), all in open G and all punctuated by gritty slide guitar and squawky barroom saxophone and I kept my arms raised in delight throughout…
021220 Five O’Clock Bells, Ottawa, ON
On one of my final laps around the internet before leaving St. John’s I discovered an interesting tidbit of a musical happening coming up at the tiny Gladstone Theatre: a one-man play that delved into the life and career of one of my favourite guitar players of all time, the inimitable and quite incredible Lenny Breau…
021117 The Assad Brothers, Ottawa, ON
Right around the time I was starting to scramble for a Secret Santa gift for my guitar-playing friend Dave I received an email announcing Ottawa’s upcoming annual Chamber Music Festival…
020689 Cheap Trick/Eddie Money, Moncton, NB
On February 6th, 1989 I saw Cheap Trick at the Moncton Coliseum, a band I had coveted since hearing their incredible live recording of I Want You To Want Me back when I was maybe ten years old…
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