Ian Blurton

Who is Ian Blurton?

Ian Blurton is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was born in Champaign, IL in 1965, and moved to Toronto in 1973

He has been a part of Toronto's indie music scene since the early 1980s, playing drums in the original line-ups for Cowboy Junkies and A Neon Rome before becoming the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for Change of Heart. He also performed on Jolly Tambourine Man's single "Apple Strudel Man".

After dissolving Change of Heart in late 1997, Blurton subsequently formed Blurtonia. He was then briefly a member of Bionic before forming C'mon in 2003 with his girlfriend, bassist Katie Lynn Campbell, formerly of Nashville Pussy, and drummer Randy Curnew. Curnew left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Dean Dallas Bentley. In late October, 2011, C'mon announced that they would be breaking up.

In the fall of 2009, Blurton released his first official solo album, Happy Endings. Almost five years in the making, the album marked a departure from Blurton's work with C'mon in that it represented a number of different genres, including a great deal of psychedelic material. While Blurton played and sang much of the album himself, it also featured appearances from former Change of Heart/Danko Jones drummer Damon Richardson, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, and Raising the Fawn's Scott Remila. For live reproduction of the record beginning in late 2009, Blurton enlisted a Hamilton, Ontario group called Huron to back him, having recently produced their debut album.