Julie Doiron

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Julie Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in seminal art grunge act Eric's Trip at age eighteen in 1990, then, shortly before the band's break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl. Now, nine solo albums later, Julie has proved herself to be one of Canada’s most impressive recording artists, blessed with an iconic voice, guitar and songwriting style all her own. She has also collaborated with, The Tragically Hip, Wooden Stars, Herman Düne, Okkervil River, and Phil Elverum AKA Mount Eerie.The Mayor of Bruno, Saskatchewan even admired her so much that he proclaimed June 7 ‘Julie Doiron Day’!
Julie Doiron is also pure DIY and started her own label 'Sappy Records' back in 1990 and then her very own annual Sappy Festival in 2006.
Her new album ‘I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day’ (Jagjaguwar) has garnered radio play on both BBC Radio 2 and 6 and is one of the albums of the year so far.
Julie will be playing as a 2 piece with Fred Squire on drums with whom she normally drums in their other band ‘Calm Down it’s Monday’.
"Doiron, once of Eric's Trip, has produced an album of boundless optimism for the post-Bush age" Uncut
"she enunciates with a child's relish, tonguing vowels as though they're glazed in jam. her voice apple blossom rich, the melody capacious" Plan B
"Yet it's a blissful record from a contented soul." Subba-Culture
"tender and utterly unaffected singing that chimes with the deceptively direct lyrics. Short sour-sweet and a near perfect album for spring"