Julie Doiron is an Acadian and Canadian singer and songwriter.

Julie started playing bass in Eric's Trip at age 18, having joined the band under the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip. After their break-up in 1996, she began releasing solo albums, initially under the name Broken Girl. In 1999, Doiron recorded an album with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars , 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 of 2000. She has also appeared as a guest musician on albums by The Tragically Hip and Gordon Downie.

Apart from her music 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 husband, painter Jon Claytor .

She currently lives in New Brunswick with her husband and their three children: Ben, Charlotte, and Rose. At various points in her life, she has lived in Moncton, Sackville, Montreal and Toronto.

Discography

• Broken Girl (1996, Sub Pop, Sappy Records )
• Loneliest in the Morning (1997, Sub Pop)
• Will You Still Love Me? (1999, Tree Records , Sappy Records )
• Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars (1999, Tree Records , Sappy Records )
• Désormais (2001, Jagjaguwar )
• Heart and Crime (2002, Jagjaguwar )
• Goodnight Nobody (2004, Jagjaguwar )

External links

• juliedoiron.com