051915 Prince, Toronto, ON
On May 19th, 2015 my friend Doug and I drove to Toronto for what would prove to be my last ever Prince concert…
Tag: live music
051803 Come Together Music Festival, Durham, ON
Come Together Music Festival was a ragtag fest of friends that booked all the small, relatively unknown Canadian jambands for rollicking three-nighters on each of the four summer long weekends from Victoria Day weekend to Labour Day…
051724 Dead & Co., Las Vegas, NV
I can’t overstate how good the sound is in the Sphere…
051601 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
For this ticket story we’re going to have to go all the way back to the Second World War…
051413 Mötley Crüe/Big Wreck, Ottawa, ON
Of course this concert included Tommy Lee’s obligatory over-the-top drum solo…
051322 ZZ Top/Cheap Trick, St. John’s, NL
ZZ Top was all class from the get-go…
051011 Neil Young/Bert Jansch, Toronto, ON
Leave it to Neil Young to book folk legend Bert Jansch (1943-2011) to open the show – a classy pairing that would prove to be one of Bert’s last tours…
050906 Drums & Tuba/Dave Lauzon, Ottawa, ON
I believe this might mark the last time I saw Drums & Tuba, a quirky-by-definition trio that first came to my attention at an Ani DiFranco concert on this exact date in ’99…
050816 Pearl Jam, Ottawa, ON
It’s great to see a band when they are still on top of their game, even if they’ve been there for a quarter of a century. I don’t know how it took so long for me to jump on this band’s wagon but I will definitely be seeing Pearl Jam again and again and as often as I can from now on…
050414 John Fogerty/Arcade Fire/Trombone Shorty/Preservation Hall Horns, New Orleans, LA
On May 4th, 2014 I spent most of the day at what is unquestionably one of the world’s great music festivals…
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