123105 Burt Neilson Band, Ottawa, ON
New Years Eve 2005 capped off a heck of a year for me…
Tag: Mavericks Bar
101610 Bruce Peninsula, Ottawa, ON
Bruce Peninsula is an amorphous band+choir that features anywhere between five and a dozen musicians and singers…
123108 The Spades, Ottawa, ON
New Year’s Eve, 2008…
110108 Garaj Mahal/The Murder Plans, Ottawa, ON
On November 1st, 2008 a American jamband with the punny moniker Garaj Mahal pulled into Ottawa for a stop at what was my second home at the time, a downtown live dive called Maverick’s…
100716 Project/Object featuring Ike Willis, Ottawa, ON
Of course this was more than a tribute, including as it did two former Zappa employees…
042916 Stickmen, Ottawa, ON
Take a monstrously talented trio like Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, both from King Crimson among other highly-respected projects, and the two-hand tapping guitaruoso Markus Reuter and plunk them down together in a small bar like Maverick’s and it should be a sure-fire homerun…
033106 Sisters Euclid/Dave Lauzon, Ottawa, ON
On March 31st, 2006 I had the great pleasure of seeing the wonderful Sisters Euclid not only in my home town of Ottawa, but in my favourite music venue (at the time, anyways), Mavericks…
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…
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