Julie Doiron
(born June 28, 1972 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage. [1]
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Background
Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in
Eric's Trip at age eighteen, having joined the band under the insistence of her then-boyfriend,
Rick White, also of Eric's Trip. Shortly before the band's break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name
Broken Girl
, which followed two previous 7" EPs under that name. All of her subsequent material, however, has been released under her own name. Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in
English, she has also released an album of
French language material,
Désormais
.
In 1999, Doiron recorded an album with the
Ottawa band
Wooden Stars, which was the first time she had worked with a band since the end of Eric's Trip. She was honoured with a
Juno Award for
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
in March 2000.
She has appeared as a guest musician on albums by
The Tragically Hip (2000s
Music at Work
),
Gordon Downie (2001's
Coke Machine Glow
and 2003's
Battle of the Nudes
), and
Herman Düne. She has also released a
split record co-credited to the
alternative country band
Okkervil River, and collaborated with American musician
Phil Elverum on the 2008
Mount Eerie album
Lost Wisdom
. She played with indie rock band
Shotgun & Jaybird until their demise in 2007, but she and
Fred Squire have continued as
Calm Down It's Monday.
Apart from her musical career, Doiron is an avid photographer, having published a book of her photographs entitled
The Longest Winter
with words by Ottawa writer
Ian Roy. She often does her own promotional photos and cover artwork along with her ex-husband, painter
Jon Claytor.
She currently lives in
Sackville, New Brunswick with her three children Ben, Charlotte, and Rose. At various points in her life, she has also lived in
Moncton,
Montreal and
Toronto.
Her album
Woke Myself Up
was shortlisted for the
2007 Polaris Music Prize.
[2] [3] [4]
In 2009, Doiron told a reporter from
The Strand
, a college newspaper at the
University of Toronto, that she and
Chad VanGaalen are currently exploring the possibility of collaborating on an album.
[5]
During her tour to support her 2009 album
I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
, the mayor of
Bruno,
Saskatchewan proclaimed June 7, 2009, the date of her show at the local All Citizens arts centre, as "Julie Doiron Day".
[6]
Collaborations
- Appeared on the 2005 Herman Dune album Not On Top
, playing bass and providing vocals
- Provided vocals for several tracks on the 1999 album The Moon
by The Wooden Stars
- Provided vocals on Snailhouse's 2001 album The Opposite Is Also True
- Contributed vocals on Baby Eagle's 2007 No Blues
- Contributed vocals to Attack in Black's song "I'm A Rock" on the Autumnal Tour 2008
7"
Discography
- Dog Love Part 2
7" (as Broken Girl) (Sappy Records) – 1993
- Nora
7" (as Broken Girl) (Sappy) – 1995
- Broken Girl
(Sub Pop, Sappy) – 1996
- Loneliest in the Morning
(Sub Pop) – 1997
- Will You Still Love Me?
(Tree Records, Sappy) – 1999
- Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
(Tree, Sappy) – 1999
- Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - Who will be the one 7"
(plumline) – 1999?
- Désormais
(Jagjaguwar, Endearing Records) – 2001
- Heart and Crime
(Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2002
- Julie Doiron / Okkervil River
(CD Split with Okkervil River) (Acuarela) – 2003
- Will You Still Love Me? + Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
(Japan Edition 2 disc with original booklet)(P-VINE Record, Japan) – 2003
- Heart and Crime + Désormais
(Japan Edition 2 disc with original booklet)(P-VINE Record, Japan) – 2003
- Goodnight Nobody
(Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2004
- Woke Myself Up
(Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2007
- Lost Wisdom
(Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire) – 2008
- I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
(Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2009
Notes and references
- Exclaim - Eric's Trip: Timeline
- Arcade Fire, Feist on Polaris short list
- Feist, Fire get Polaris noms
- Arcade Fire, Feist And The Dears Among Polaris Nominees
- Annie Bender, "Living the life of dreams". ''The Strand'', April 9, 2009.
- "June 7 Named Julie Doiron Day in Bruno, Saskatchewan". ''Exclaim!'', June 9, 2009.