Sackville singer-songwriter Julie Doiron garners nod for Juno Award

Sackville singer-songwriter Julie Doiron will be vying for another Juno Award next month.

The nominees for the 2010 Juno Awards were announced last week by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), and Doiron is up for Alternative Album of the Year honours.

Doiron's 2009 album I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day will go head to head against discs by Handsome Furs, Japandroids, Metric, and Tegan & Sara.

The album, released last March and said to be the most rocking disc of Doiron's solo career, was the number one charting album of the year on Canadian campus radio for 2009.

The 37-year-old indie rocker began her music career in 1990 at the age of 18 playing bass with Eric's Trip.

Five years later, as the band was breaking up, she released her first solo album titled Broken Girl, a temporary moniker Doiron adopted to express her feelings at the time. The record was released on her own label Sappy Records.

Only four years after that, Doiron won her first Juno for the coveted Canadian Entertainment Award for the album Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars.

A subsequent album Woke Myself Up was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize.

Doiron is also an avid photographer, having studied photography at Mount Allison University, and often does her own promotional photos and cover artwork

The 2010 Juno Awards will be broadcast on CTV on Sunday, April 18 at Mile One Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.