Canadian folk music legend, Ian Tamblyn is a singer-songwriter and record producer, adventurer and playwright. In 1976, he released his first full-length album, Ian Tamblyn, which won a Juno Award for Best Album Cover that year. Since then, he has completed over 46 recording projects. He plays guitar, piano, hammered dulcimer and synthesizer, as well as singing.
He’s written 14 plays and over a hundred theatre soundtracks. He worked for Adventure Canada for many years, for which he was made a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Ian is also the winner of the Estelle Klein and Helen Verger Awards in recognition of his contributions to folk music in Canada. Most recently Ian was nominated as English Songwriter of the Year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2022. In the same year he was awarded membership as an Officer of the Order of Canada.