What is Ian Tyson doing now? Does Ian Tyson still sing?

Ian Dawson Tyson, a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote a significant number of modern folk songs has died. Tyson was born on September 25, 1933 and died on December 29, 2022. He was 89 years.

Tyson took up the guitar while he was recovering from an injury he sustained in a fall.

He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, The Sensational Stripes.

He graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958.

After graduating, Tyson moved to Toronto where he began a job as a commercial artist.

While there, he performed in local clubs.

By early 1959 Tyson and Sylvia Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as Ian & Sylvia.

The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married in 1964.

Two years after their marriage, they formed and fronted the group The Great Speckled Bird.

Residing in southern Alberta, the Tysons toured all over the world. During their years together, the pair released 13 albums of folk and country music.

In 1980, Tyson became associated with Calgary music manager and producer Neil MacGonigill.

However, Tyson decided to concentrate on country and cowboy music, resulting in the well-received 1983 album Old Corrals and Sagebrush, released on Columbia Records.

Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.