Julie Doiron

2017—Performing Arts

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron was born in Moncton in 1972. In 1990, her musical ambitions took flight with the influential alternative-rock band, Eric’s Trip. By 1996 she was living in Sackville where she has spent the most of her time since, creating music and cultivating an international following for her work.

Her efforts attracted national attention in 1999 with the release of “Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars,” which won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2000. Additional albums followed, and a second Juno nomination in 2010 for “I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day.”

Besides solo work, Julie has collaborated with local, national and international musicians, among them Canada’s Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip. At the same time she became a co-founder and ongoing supporter of Sappyfest, Sackville’s annual, independent arts and music festival.

For a quarter century she has been an icon of Canadian independent rock music and a remarkable ambassador for Sackville around the world.