Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron live in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Julie Elaine Doiron
Also known as	Broken Girl
Born	June 28, 1972 (1972-06-28) (age 37)
Origin	Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Genres	Folk rock, indie rock, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Jagjaguwar, Sappy, Endearing, Sub Pop
Associated acts	Eric's Trip, Wooden Stars, Shotgun & Jaybird, Snailhouse, Calm Down It's Monday, Mount Eerie
Website	www.juliedoiron.com

Julie Doiron (born June 28, 1972 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.^[1]

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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"

[edit] 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? (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
• Daniel, Fred & Julie (with Dan Romano and Fred Squire) (You've Changed Records) - 2009

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Julie Doiron official website
• Julie Doiron at MySpace
• Short story review of Woke Myself Up at The Wheel's Still in Spin