Julie Doiron

Infobox musical artist
Name = Julie Doiron


Img_capt = Julie Doiron performing with Eric's Trip at the 2007 Sappy Records Music Festival
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Background = solo_singer
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Alias = Broken Girl
Born = 1972
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Origin = Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Instrument = Vocals, guitar, bass
Genre = Slowcore, indie rock, singer-songwriter
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Years_active = 1990–present
Label = Jagjaguwar, Sappy, Endearing, Sub Pop
Associated_acts = Eric's Trip, Wooden Stars, Shotgun & Jaybird, Snailhouse
URL = [http://www.juliedoiron.com/ www.juliedoiron.com]

Julie Doiron is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.

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.

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, Gordon Downie and Herman Düne, and has also released a split record co-credited to the alternative country band Okkervil River. She played with indie rock band Shotgun & Jaybird until their demise in 2007, but she and Dick Morello have continued as Calm Down It's Monday.

Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she has also released an album of French language material, "Désormais".

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.

On July 10, 2007, Doiron's album, "Woke Myself Up" was reported as being on the shortlist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize. [cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/07/10/polaris-shortlist.html?ref=rss|title=Arcade Fire, Feist on Polaris short list |accessdate=July 10|accessyear=2007] [cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2007/07/10/4328574-cp.html|title=Feist, Fire get Polaris noms|accessdate=July 11|accessyear=2007] [cite web|url=http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2007/07/1016.cfm|title=Arcade Fire, Feist And The Dears Among Polaris Nominees|accessdate=July 11|accessyear=2007]

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

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.juliedoiron.com Julie Doiron] official website
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* [http://www.thewheelsstillinspin.com/2007/01/julie_doiron_wo.html Short story review of "Woke Myself Up"] at The Wheel's Still in Spin