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IAN TAMBLYN

Sunday, January 21, 2024 - 3pm - Matinee performance

Doors open at 2pm

THE LOFT - Algoma Conservatory of Music, 75 Huron St.

Concert Tickets: $35 - all fees included

Tapas Plates: $10 - preorder only

THE TAPAS PREORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED (two days prior to the event)

NEW at THIS CONCERT - TAPAS PLATES

prepared by Rosetta Sicoli

The Tapas plates are available below by preorder only. There will not be extra plates available at the concert. Rosetta is preparing a delicious small plate of finger foods just for you. You can pick it up at the bar at intermission. They must be ordered  at least 48 hours before the performance. After that they will not be available.

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Ian Tamblyn, a true Canadian musical champion; musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, adventurer and playwright. We can never anticipate what this incredibly gifted and fun artist may bring to the stage - suffice to say we are over the moon to welcome him back!Ian has been playing music and writing plays since the age of seventeen. His first “professional” and self titled album was awarded a Juno for its unique cover design. Since that time Ian has recorded forty – four more albums, CDs and cassettes as well as producing albums for over thirty other artists. His songs have been covered by over forty artists and his song “Woodsmoke and Oranges’ has been presented by close to one hundred choirs in North America and Europe.

Ian has won dozens of prestigious awards for his work including a Juno award and nomination, songwriting awards and nominations from the Canadian Folk Music Awards as well awards and nominations for his theatre and film soundtracks. He holds an honourary doctorate from Lakehead University, a distinguished alumni award from Trent University and he is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. In 2021 Ian Tamblyn was selected as an Officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General Mary Simon. Ian is also the recipient of the Jackie Washington Award, the Victor Tolgasy Award, Estelle Klein Award and the J.D. Coulsen Award.
As well as his popular songwriter works, Tamblyn has recorded a number of instrumental music albums inspired by his adventure travels to remote places such as the north shore of Lake Superior, the Nahanni River and the Chukchi Sea, and his participation in scientific research expeditions to locations such as Greenland and Antarctica. Magnetic North and Antarctica incorporate on-location field recordings into the music. Magnetic North was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album of 1990. Over My Head was recorded in-studio after a live concert commissioned by the Canadian Museum of Nature, in which music was blended with tape looped field recordings of birds.

Ian has also written seventeen plays and is currently researching a play about his grandmother Vera Baird who was a vaudeville type singer in the lumber and logging camps of North Western Ontario. Music for this play was discovered her piano bench. The play will be called Vera. His most recent play Ice Storm 1998 was given a stage reading in December 2022 at the La Fab centre in Chelsea, Quebec. He is also collaborating with Jan Irwin on a play based on Brian Doyle’s book, Mary Ellen Alice. In 2018 Ian was music director for Up to Low, another Irwin/Doyle production that was staged at the Studio of the National Arts Centre.

Currently Ian is working on several music and writing projects. A “best of” collection was just released in November 2023 on both vinyl and CD formats. The vinyl presentation will be a companion piece to the vinyl version of Magnetic North which was released by the Record Centre and Precision Records in 2022. There is also a collection of new songs being assembled for release sometime next year. As well Ian has been writing a collection of stories centred around his life as an adventure guide and another reflecting on the songwriting process.

As of this writing there is an exhibit of paintings by Lorenzo Fracchetti featuring Tamblyn’s music showing in Trento, Italy and a film entitled -”Piccolo Musiquevibration” by Jean Marc Gauthier-------- featuring his music recently released in France. There is also a video interviewing Ian directed by Adam Russo called “Unsung Heroes”. In December 2021, Tamblyn was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada For his enduring contributions as a folk music icon, adventurer and cultural ambassador for Canada.