Ian Foster - Canadian Singer-Songwriter and Filmmaker

A Chat with Heart - with Christina Martin

Christina chat's with one of her funniest friends Ian Foster about the challenges in making a film, staying positive, a healthy dose of rejection, and his relation to David Foster. Ian, native of Newfoundland, Canada, is a storyteller. That music and film are the ways he tells those stories only makes the telling richer still. Once described by CBC’s Bob Mersereau as being “a fine example of what a 21st century folk performer should be doing,” Foster continues to evolve and defy genre, as his latest forthcoming album and film project Close to the Bone (2022) illustrates.

Ian has been compared to diverse artists like Bruce Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, The War on Drugs, Josh Ritter and more, depending on the album of his that you’re listening to. Meanwhile, his film scores draw more on Sigur Ros and Olafur Arnalds textures and ambience. This is not a bug, it’s a feature: it all comes from a love of sonic exploration that has only grown as Ian’s career has moved between touring around the world and producing albums for a diverse set of artists.

Ian has toured in Canada, the U.S, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, and Italy, and has had his music played on radio internationally. He is a MusicNL and ECMA (East Coast Music Award) winner, a finalist for the International Songwriting Competition, and has numerous co-writes to his credit, including the legendary folk songwriter Ron Hynes.

Ian performs and records both solo, and as a duo with his longtime partner Nancy Hynes, with whom he released the multi-award winning album A Week in December in 2018.

• If and When Podcast
• Film and Album: Close to the Bone

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Kapitler

1. Greetings from Christina (00:00:00)

2. Theme Song - Talk About It (00:00:30)

3. Introduction by Christina and Matt Epp (00:00:56)

4. The proper amount of rejection and backup plans (00:06:03)

5. Ian and journalism (00:12:07)

6. Newfoundland and Labrador (00:15:28)

7. Ostrich racing (00:17:13)

8. A serious question about comedy (00:20:02)

9. The stories between the songs (00:21:39)

10. Purpose and storytelling (00:22:55)

11. Ian's relation to David Foster (00:29:12)

12. The struggle with just being yourself on stage (00:32:17)

13. Ian's film and album: Close to the Bone (00:36:23)

14. Challenges with filming (00:42:01)

15. Staying positive (00:47:30)

16. Diversification (00:53:00)

17. Heartbeat Hotline [phone] (00:55:42)

18. Podcast Credits (00:56:17)

19. Support the Podcast on Patreon (00:56:40)