The most recent CDs can be ordered or downloaded from CD Baby. Click on titles for a link. Downloads are fine but you don’t get the liner notes which are all pretty good. Earlier recordings are trickier, but not impossible to get. E-mail me about them. ian.bell@sympatico.ca

2009 – My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions 

Traditional Material:

A collection of traditional songs and tunes that Ian has performed for years, but never got around to recording until recently. With Geoff Somers, Anne Lederman, Oliver Schroer, Denis Rondeau, The Bilge Rats, Pat O’Gorman, Shane Cooke and others.

2007 – Shallow Water

Original Songs and tunes:

Third disc in the “tri-county trilogy” This record includes a lot of music inspired by Port Dover and lakeside life. full of sailors, motorcycles, fishermen, tattoos (several), rockabilly singers, fiddlers and cameo appearances by George Wade and Rudy Vallee. With Geoff Somers, Tom Leighton, David Woodhead, Denis Rondeau, Chris Schiller.

2000 – Signor Farini & Other Adventures - Available for Download Only

Original Songs and trad. tunes:

Mostly original songs with a few sets of traditional tunes and an old song from Jackie Washington thrown in for good measure. Songs inspired by life in darkest southwestern Ontario. With The Dawnbreakers - Kate Murphy, Brian Pickell, Geoff Somers with Anne Lederman and Dave Zdriluk.

1996 – Free Range

Original Songs: (Out of Print)

Original Songs and instrumental music accompanied by the Dawnbreakers – Kate Murphy, Brian Pickell, Oliver Schroer with David Zdriluk and Anne Lederman. I’ll burn you a copy if you ask nicely. (e-mail)

1993 – Singing In A Strange Land

Shape note music from Waterloo Co., Ontario :(Cassette)

Vocal and instrumental arrangements with a large chorus, The Dawnbreakers, Oliver Schroer, Anne Lederman, Ian Robb, and many others. Produced for Joseph Schneider Haus Museum.

1992 – Brightest & Best

Early Christmas Music – Shapenote chorus & instrumental:

Prof. Chalaupka’s Celebrated Singing School with Anne Lederman, Oliver Schroer, David Travers-Smith,

John Mayberry and others. CDs  available - e-mail for details.

1991 – The Farmer Feeds Us All

Mostly Traditional & Historic: (Cassette – out of print)

Traditional and contemporary songs about farming and agriculture.

1990 – A Grand Musical Entertainment

Traditional & Historic:

Grassroots Music of Early Ontario (Cassette - out of print) The Dawnbreakers, Prof. Chalaupka’s Celebrated Singing School, Enoch Kent, Anne Lederman, Oliver Schroer, David Travers-Smith, and many others.

1984 – Scatter The Ashes

Traditional & Historic:

Music of Old Ontario - Muddy York  (vinyl – try eBay!)

Neat arrangements of fiddle tunes from the 19th century Allan Ash manuscript and early Ontario folksongs. with Anne Lederman. I’ll burn you a copy if you ask nicely. (e-mail)