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. He has been working at Carwardine Parks since 1983.

In 1999, he applied for a position to record both original songs and covers of various different songs for Carwardine Colony's carousel. Since then, he has composed all the music for the Carwardine Colony Carousel, and often is considered the "spokesman" for the attraction.

In his free time, one of the things he does is listen to music from various kinds of organs, including Hammond organs, pipe organs, theater organs, mechanical organs, and several other kinds. His claim that the fairground organ is a favorite of his might connect to why he composes music for the carousel at Carwardine Colony. He also listens to various other kinds of music, including new and old pop music, alongside music played by various orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, mechanical music machines other than fairground organs, and so on.

Keyboards and sampling devices

 * AKAI S1000
 * Roland D-50
 * Roland S-50
 * Roland Gaia SH-01
 * E-mu Emulator II
 * E-mu Proteus
 * Kurzweil K2500X
 * Studiologic Sledge 2.0
 * Yamaha DX7
 * etc.

Guitars and basses

 * Charvel Surfcaster guitar
 * EVH Wolfgang Special guitar (2013 model, in Sunburst Tobacco)
 * Steinberger XL5 bass (1990 model, in Black)

Voice Roles

 * Dook LaRue (Rock-afire Explosion; 2008-2016, singing voice)

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) and covers of songs from various licensed properties, including semi-current and former licenses (plus some songs from licensed media that Carwardine never held the license to).
 * He and some other members of the Shoreliners, like Gabe Mattingly, have provided instrumental tracks for queue tapes involving musical numbers and/or original songs (such as the Carwardine Sings the Songs series) and the recent Carwardine-exclusive Rock-afire Explosion showtapes.
 * His cousin Jean-Martin Valin has performed vocals for some original songs composed by Monteil or the other Carwardine composers.
 * His wife Joanna Sparrow-Monteil has provided song vocals on a number of Carwardine original music projects and songs.