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For immediate release
October 7, 2005

Canadian music legend plays Banff Centre

Playbill Series: Ian Tyson
Friday, October 21, 8 p.m., Eric Harvie Theatre,
all tickets $41.25
Box Office: 1-800-413-8368 or 403-762-6301

Ian Tyson is one of a kind. A musical pioneer who started out in the folk boom of the 1960s and became one of the first Canadians to break into the North American popular music market, Tyson is recognized as a true legend, respected as one of Canada’s foremost singer-songwriters. His list of honours — from the Order of Canada to Juno Awards, from platinum records to numerous Canadian Country Music Awards — is too lengthy to repeat.

As part of a western tour stretching from Colorado to British Columbia, Ian Tyson returns to The Banff Centre on Friday, October 21 at 8:00 p.m. in the Eric Harvie Theatre, as part of The Banff Centre’s Playbill Series.

Following his breakthrough in the 1960s as part of the influential folk duo, Ian and Sylvia, Tyson recorded over a dozen albums, including such timeless hits as Four Strong Winds, Someday Soon, and You Were On My Mind. In the mid 70s, he quit the music business to work as a rodeo rider and rancher, settling near Longview, Alberta. Tyson returned to music in the mid ’80s, combining his two separate lives through songs that explain the reality of “western culture” and the mindset of a cowboy in a sometimes-alien world.

Tyson’s most recent album, Songs from the Gravel Road (Stony Plain Records 2005) garnered rave reviews. The album is named in honour of the gravel road outside his ranch along which Tyson walks as he writes many of his compositions. “I guess 80 per cent of my songs come on that walk,” Tyson says. Tyson’s music and concerts continue to take him all over North America, selling out venues with his ageless, poignant, and warm performances.

“There are very few people who truly deserve the title, “legendary,” ” says Kurt Bagnell, presenter of theCentre’s Playbill Series, “but Ian Tyson genuinely deserves that accolade. He is still writing tremendous songs and he has a voice that will move you like few other artists will. And if you’re going to bring somebody in to help celebrate the Centenary of this province, Ian Tyson is the natural choice. There is nobody better.”

Tickets for Tyson’s October 21 concert are available from The Banff Centre Box Office,
1-800-413-8368 or 403-762-6301. For more information or online ticket purchase, go to www.banffcentre.ca/events.

For a high resolution, downloadable image of Ian Tyson http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/images/playbill/

For more information on The Banff Centre’s Playbill Series: http://www.banffcentre.ca/events/playbill/