Downloads of A Longing for Innocence are now available from Apple Music and other online music retailers. This eclectic collection of sixteen songs was recorded with Mike Dubue at Studio Cimetiere in Quyon, Quebec between August and November 2020. The album features many musicians from the Gatineau Hills including Julia MacLaine from the National Arts Centre Orchestra, members of the Chelsea Youth Choir,  as well as guest vocalist, Dayna Manning from Stratford, Ontario. The

Ian Tamblyn joins 49 fellow Ottawa JUNO nominees in Alan Neal’s new CBC Ottawa series JUNOS Fifty Fifty ahead of the upcoming JUNO Awards. The 50th annual JUNO Awards will celebrate 50 years in Canadian music with a live broadcast on Sunday, June 6. To celebrate this milestone, All in a Day's Alan Neal is looking back on five decades of Ottawa JUNO nominees with a special series leading up to the award broadcast called JUNOS Fifty Fifty. Alan reached out to JUNO-nominated loc

For a number of years in the 1980’s I had the pleasure of being the front man researcher for Wayne Rostad’s television series, “Regional Report” which later morphed into “On the Road” . In late February I would get a call from CBC producers Sheila Petzold or Sue Stranks to research stories for Wayne’s show. “We’re out of ideas Ian, can you help us out!” It was nothing less than a great gig. I was given a CBC van to travel all around the Ottawa Valley and Gatineau Hills seekin

Now available on CD! This eclectic collection of sixteen songs was recorded with Mike Dubue at Studio Cimetiere in Quyon, Quebec between August and November 2020. The album features many musicians from the Gatineau Hills including Julia MacLaine from the National Arts Centre Orchestra, members of the Chelsea Youth Choir,  as well as guest vocalist, Dayna Manning from Stratford, Ontario. The album was a challenge to record during these “Covid times” but modern technology allow

In the winter of 2013, I embarked on a musical trip across Canada. I called it the “Ianpossible Tour.” The tour started in Chelsea, Quebec reached its apogee in Dawson City, Yukon, a trip that included 33 concerts in 40 days. There were any number of people who questioned my sanity about a winter tour across Canada but I had a religious belief that my trusty 2006 Suzuki Areio would make it. After all it had already taken me over 300,00 kilometers. Why they discontinued that m