Barnard & Brohm

Website: www.barnardandbrohm.com

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About Warren

Hailing from Owen Sound, Ontario, Warren Barnard is a rural boy, raised with lots of love in a family where country music reigned supreme. Like most true-blue Canadians, Warren spent many a boyhood hour in local arenas. He likes to say he "played minor hockey until his legs almost fell off"... which is uncomfortably close to the truth! First one, then another broken leg while playing hockey forced Warren to re-evaluate his choice of pastimes. With hockey out of the picture, it wasn't long before he picked up an old guitar of his mom's and started to pluck its worn-out strings. Soon his great-uncle, admiring the boys determination, began to help Warren out with a few chords and some encouragement.

It wasn't long before Warren had saved up some money to buy his own guitar, and he's been hooked ever since. Listing his chief vocal influences as Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, George Strait, Cal Smith and Gene Watson, Warren describes himself as "Country down to my boots!"
Enough said.

About Ian

You know the popular expression, "what you see is what you get"? That's the way Ian Brohm likes to describe himself. A farm boy from Haliburton, Ontario, Ian was raised on Country Music and lots of it. At the age of five, he found his first guitar waiting under the tree on Christmas morning. Packaged in a triangular-shaped cardboard box, Ian thought it was a huge piece of cheese that Santa had brought him! Rapidly getting over his disappointment, the boy clutched his new present and begged his musician uncle to teach him to play it. Since then Ian's been jumping from one instrument to another, unsure of which one he'd really like to master. One thing Ian Brohm does know for certain, as long as he's playing or listening to music, he's happy.

But it wasn't all fun growing up. When he was still very young, Ian's parents went through a turbulent and abrupt divorce. Raised by his mother, Ian had to adjust to the pain of not seeing or having his father in his life. But strife and upheaval have always been fuel for creative fires. Ian began writing songs at such a young age, that he more or less took song writing for granted until, in his 20's, three of his compositions started garnering some serious attention. After recording those songs, Ian decided it was time to start taking his passion seriously and not to let anyone dissuade him from his path. It was a vow he's never looked from. Working with several different co-writers, including his "musical soul-mate" Warren Barnard, Ian is constantly at work on new material. Always the dreamer, he's learned that if you don't dream, you simply can't live.

By that token, Ian Brohm is a man living life to the hilt.