J.D. Potié
CLARENDON
Nov. 23, 2019
Around 50 people from the region gathered at the Little Red Wagon Winery in Clarendon on Saturday night, as Juno award-winning . . .
folk-singing virtuoso Ian Tamblyn entertained the small crowd with a mix of rustic tunes and humourous tales.
Part of the 100 Mile Arts Network, Tamblyn explained that he was first intrigued about performing at the winery when he discovered it around a month and a half ago.
“I heard about this place, so I phone up and asked for a gig,” he said.
At 7:30 p.m., Tamblyn sat on a stool in front of the modest crowd and told them a story about how he’d been dealing with a condition called T.A.D. for the last couple of months – Trump Anxiety Disorder – before getting the show underway.
Before playing “Dog Tail Wagging” from his 2011 album Walking the Bones (The Four Coast Project, Vol. 3), he explained how the song was about a golden retriever in Iqaluit, Nvt. who was all heart but no brains.
With catchy lyrics over smooth acoustic tunes, accompanied with a comical story-telling side, Tamblyn brought the crowd through many of his travels across different remote parts of Canada.
Having released over 40 musical projects over the course of his illustrious career, the Chelsea native has performed in all sorts of venues from large concert halls to big stages at music festivals around the world.
However, he hasn’t enjoyed any artistic environment quite as much as one that makes for a smaller crowd with a more intimate sound.
“For me, it doesn’t get much bigger than this,” he said. “This is the size of audience I like. Some people can be comfortable with 3,000 people… I’m not that big. I don’t have that desire or that ego or whatever it is to fill that big a place. This is the size of room that I can fill.”
