Ian Robb is a well-known English

England

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-born folk singer, currently based in Ottawa, Ontario. He was a founding member of Friends of Fiddler's Green

Friends of Fiddler's Green

Friends of Fiddler's Green is a Canadian folk music group based in Toronto. The original members of the group for its first recording, The Road to Mandalay, were Grit Laskin, Tam Kearney, Ian Robb, Laurence Stevenson, David Parry, and Jeff McClintock on keyboards...

, and a columnist for Sing Out!

Sing Out!

Sing Out! is a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that has been published since May 1950.-Background:Sing Out! is the primary publication of the tax exempt, not-for-profit, educational corporation of the same name...

. He is also a member of the Canadian folk trio Finest Kind

Finest Kind

Finest Kind is a folk music trio based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It consists of Ian Robb, Ann Downey and Shelley Posen.Finest Kind has released four albums in its own name . Individually, its members have appeared on several solo CDs...

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He wrote a parody of Stan Rogers

Stan Rogers

Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...

 song "Barrett's Privateers

Barrett's Privateers

"Barrett's Privateers" is a folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario...

", titled "Garnet's Homemade Beer". He was the recipient of the 2005

2005 in music

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 Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Traditional Singer, for his work on the CD jiig.

Notable Songs Written by Ian Robb

• They're Taking It Away
• The Old Rose and Crown

External links

• http://www.finestkind.ca/ian.html
• Garnet's Homemade Beer - Ian Robb (Lyrics and Chords)

Recordings

Solo CDs

• Ian Robb and Hang the Piper, Folk-Legacy Records
  Folk-Legacy Records
  Folk-Legacy Records is an independent recording company specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton along with the late Lee Baker Haggerty...
  
  
• Rose and Crown, Folk-Legacy Records
  Folk-Legacy Records
  Folk-Legacy Records is an independent recording company specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton along with the late Lee Baker Haggerty...
  
  
• From Different Angels 1994

CDs as part of Finest Kind

Finest Kind

Finest Kind is a folk music trio based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It consists of Ian Robb, Ann Downey and Shelley Posen.Finest Kind has released four albums in its own name . Individually, its members have appeared on several solo CDs...

• Lost in a Song 1996
• Heart's Delight 1999
• Silks& Spices 2004
• Feasts & Spirits (with John D. Huston) 2004
• For Honour & For Gain 2010

Other CDs

• Margaret Christl & Ian Robb with Grit Laskin The Barley Grain for Me 1998

CD as part of jiig

• jiig 2005 http://www.jiig.ca