Word X Word Festival Tonight
Ian will perform tonight on the Emerging Artist Stage of the Word X Word Festival in Pittsfield, MA. The show will take place at The Lantern at 455 North Street and will also feature a set by Jacqueline Francis. The evening begins at 9pm; Ian’s set begins at 9:45pm. Admission is free.
MindFull Books & Ephemera Saturday Night
Ian will perform this Saturday night (07.24.10) in the Blue Kat Music Parlour at MindFull Books & Ephemera in Jaffrey, NH. Ian will be opening for Nashville singer-songwriter David Smith. The show starts at 7pm; admission is $5.
YouTube Channel
Thanks to a pair of friends/concertgoers, there are now a few videos of Ian up on YouTube. They have been collected on Ian’s new YouTube Channel: there you can see Ian’s entire 04.30.10 show from the Speakeasy@Local 121 (courtesy of Daniel Sullivan) as well “Arizona Bound” from Ian’s 06.02.10 set at the Mediator Stage (courtesy of Art Toegemann) along with some favorites of Ian’s by other artists.
Don’t forget, you can also see video from Ian’s 2008 performance at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival on Vimeo (thanks to another audience member).
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Of Ian's songwriting, no less an authority than Vance Gilbert actually said : "He can obviously construct a lyric better than I ever could." Of course, he could have gone on and said: "Ian captures breaths from the mouths of angels and pieces them gently together into the words and phrases that not even those heavenly creatures would dare speak," but he absolutely did not say that, and for good reason.
Regardless, Ian has self-released three albums of his own songs since 2004 and is celebrating this autumn the release of his fourth album, Empty Like The Lion Den, on independent label Dirt Floor Records.
A: I don’t own one, which means it is colorless. It is also, theoretically, odorless, shapeless, and tasteless, making it the carbon monoxide of my personal electronics collection (and not the only thing about me that’s tasteless, by a long shot). For the record, I still listen to music on the go the same way I always have: I carry around a gramophone and a stack of 78s.
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