Julie Doiron

e839Julie Doiron (born June 28, 1972 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.[1][2] She has been the bass guitarist and co-vocalist for the Canadian indie rock band Eric’s Trip since its formation in 1990. She has released ten solo albums, beginning with 1996’s Broken Girl, and is also the lead singer for the band Julie and the Wrong Guys.

Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in Eric’s Trip at the age of 18, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Eric’s Trip guitarist Rick White. 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 (“Dog Love, Pt. 2” & “Nora”) also released under that name. All of her subsequent material has been released under her own name. She started her own label, Sappy Records, to release several of her solo efforts.[3] Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she also released an album of French language material, Désormais, as well as several EPs of material sung in Spanish.

In 1999, Doiron performed at the 1999 Stardust Picnic festival at Historic Fort York, Toronto.[4] That year she 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 shared a Juno Award for Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars in March 2000.