110110 Experience Hendrix, Ottawa, ON
On November 1st, 2010 I went to the National Arts Centre to see the Widdly Widdly Pentatonic Minor Legacy Cash-In Guitar Wankfest Extravaganza Experience…
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050219 NACO featuring Miloš Karadaglić/Howard Shore, Ottawa, ON
On May 2nd, 2019 I was pleasantly surprised to receive an offer to join a friend for a concert featuring a new guitar concerto commissioned by Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra…
030323 I Forgive You, Ottawa, ON
I Forgive You was the most honest piece of art I have ever seen…
020516 Fraser Hollins Quartet, Ottawa, ON
The show was billed as the Fraser Hollins Quartet, but to me it was a Brian Blade concert…
120815 Roger Hodgson, Ottawa, ON
There are certain bands that you just hope and pray will play the songs exactly the way they were recorded…
120300 John Prine/Emmylou Harris/Bruce Cockburn/Steve Earle/Mary Chapin Carpenter/Nanci Griffith, Ottawa, ON
I had never head of this John Prine fellow before, but he sure wrote good songs…
101218 Xenos, Ottawa, ON
For reasons that I could never pinpoint, I’ve never been a fan of dance…
100201 Medeski Martin & Wood, Ottawa, ON
On October 2nd, 2001 Medeski Martin & Wood were playing at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre and I had a ticket…
041405 NACO plays Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Haydn, Ottawa, ON
On April 14th, 2005 I made my way to the National Arts Centre to take in a show featuring Canada’s very talented national orchestra performing long-ago works written by some of the most brilliant minds in the known history of music…
070305 Mark Knopfler, Ottawa, ON
The world is short on bona fide guitar gods…
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