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Infobox musical artist|name = Julie Doiron|image =Eric’s_Trip_2008.06.29_002.jpg|caption = Julie Doiron live in 2008|image_size =|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Julie Elaine Doiron|alias = Broken Girl|birth_date = birth date and age|mf=yes|1972|6|28|death_date =|origin = Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada |instrument = Vocals, guitar, bass, drums|genre = Folk rock , indie rock , singer-songwriter|occupation = Musician, photographer|years_active = Start date|1990& ndash;present|label = Jagjaguwar , Sappy Records|Sappy , Endearing Records|Endearing , Sub Pop |associated_acts = Eric's Trip , Wooden Stars , Shotgun & Jaybird , Calm Down It's Monday , Gordon Downie , Daniel, Fred & Julie |website = URL|juliedoiron.comJulie Doiron (born June 28, 1972 in Moncton , New Brunswick ) is an award-winning Canada|Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage. http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx? csid1=131& csid2=9& fid1=37539 Exclaim – Eric's Trip: Timelinecite news|title=Feist leads nominees for Indie Music Awards|url= http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/music/story/2008/01/31/indie-noms.html|work=CBC.ca|accessdate=30 March 2011|date=January 31, 2008
Background
Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White (musician)|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 also released under that name. All of her subsequent material has been released under her own name. Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she also released an album of French language material, Désormais .
Eric's Trip reunited in 2001, and have played shows periodically ever since. She has also appeared as a guest musician on albums by The Tragically Hip (2000s Music at Work ), Gordon Downie (2001's Coke Machine Glow , 2003's Battle of the Nudes (album)|Battle of the Nudes and 2010's The Grand Bounce ), and Herman Düne . She has also released a split record co-credited to the alternative country band Okkervil River (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 Frederick 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. They both live in Toronto , Ontario , with their three children Ben, Charlotte, and Rose. At various points in her life, Doiron has also lived in Moncton , Montreal and Toronto.
Her album Woke Myself Up was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize .cite news|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, 2007 | work=CBC News | date=July 10, 2007cite web|url= http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2007/07/10/4328574-cp.html|title=Feist, Fire get Polaris noms|accessdate=July 11, 2007 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071011225300/ http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2007/07/10/4328574-cp.html |archivedate = October 11, 2007cite news|url= http://www.chartattack.com/news/43988/arcade-fire-feist-and-the-dears-among-polaris-nominees|title=Arcade Fire, Feist And The Dears Among Polaris Nominees|last=Love|first=Noah|date=2007-07-10|publisher= Chart (magazine) |accessdate=2008-11-20
In 2009, Doiron told a reporter from The Strand , a college newspaper at the University of Toronto , that she and Chad VanGaalen were exploring the possibility of collaborating on an album.Annie Bender, http://media.www.thestrand.ca/media/storage/paper404/news/2009/04/09/FilmMusic/Living.The.Life.Of.Dreams-3706730.shtml "Living the life of dreams". The Strand , April 9, 2009. She appeared on a track from VanGaalen's EP of Soft Airplane B-sides that year, but no further news pertaining to a potential album collaboration has been released.
During her tour to support her 2009 album I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day , the mayor of Bruno, Saskatchewan|Bruno , Saskatchewan proclaimed June 7, 2009 as "Julie Doiron Day". She performed at the local All Citizens arts centre on that day. http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx? csid1=133& csid2=844& fid1=39104 "June 7 Named Julie Doiron Day in Bruno, Saskatchewan". Exclaim! , June 9, 2009.
Collaborations
Appeared on the 2005 Herman Dune album Not On Top , playing Bass guitar|bass and providing vocals
Provided vocals for several tracks on the 1999 album The Moon (album)|The Moon by The Wooden Stars
Provided vocals on Snailhouse 's 2001 album The Opposite Is Also True
Contributed vocals on Steve Lambke|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, Jagjaguwar ) – 1997
Will You Still Love Me? (Julie Doiron album)|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
Lost Wisdom ( Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire ) – 2008
I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2009
Daniel, Fred & Julie (with Daniel Romano and Frederick Squire ) ( You've Changed Records ) – 2009
Notes and references
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External links
http://www.juliedoiron.com Julie Doiron official website
myspace|juliedoiron
http://www.thewheelsstillinspin.com/2007/01/julie_doiron_wo.html Short story review of Woke Myself Up at The Wheel's Still in Spin
Julie Doiron Persondata | NAME = Doiron, Julie | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian musician | DATE OF BIRTH = June 28, 1972 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Doiron, Julie Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:People from Moncton Category:Canadian singer-songwriters Category:Canadian pop singers Category:Canadian rock singers Category:Canadian female singers Category:Canadian female guitarists Category:Canadian photographers Category:Female rock singers Category:Acadian people Category:Sub Pop artists Category:Canadian indie rock musicians Category:Musicians from New Brunswick Category:Canadian indie pop musicians Category:Canadian folk rock musicians
