Ian Monteil

Ian David Monteil (born November 12, 1961) is a Canadian-American musician and songwriter, best known for working with Carwardine Parks. He is also known as a member of the surf rock revivalist group The Shoreliners.

Life and career
Monteil was born on November 12, 1961 in, ,. His father was Québécois and his mother was originally from. At the age of 3, his parents moved to the. He grew up in. He attended.

While working as a songwriter/composer for Carwardine Parks, he applied for a position to record both original songs and covers of various different songs for Carwardine Colony's carousel.

Trivia

 * He was originally going to do organ songs for other carousels in the Carwardine Parks chain, but wanted to focus on just Carwardine Colony.
 * However, he did do a carousel organ cover of "The Carousel Song" from the former Marriott's Great America parks, in which Carwardine currently owns one of them. The cover has yet to be heard from either Carwardine Colony’s Carousel or any of the CDs, and has only been released on his accounts for websites like SoundCloud.
 * Among other fairground-organ style songs uploaded by Ian on websites like SoundCloud are various cover songs that could otherwise only be heard from the Carousel as of 2021 and have yet to appear on any CDs, such as a cover of Britney Spears’ “Oops!... I Did It Again”. (This song and various others were eventually put on Volume 34)
 * He and some other members of the Shoreliners, like Gabe Mattingly, have provided instrumental tracks for queue tapes involving musical numbers (such as the Carwardine Sings the Songs series) and the recent Carwardine-exclusive Rock-afire Explosion showtapes.