Eliza Mary Doyle

This international and JUNO award winning banjo player from Saskatchewan, Canada has a unique

way of captivating audiences around the world with her charismatic performances, stylistic

clawhammer banjo playing and sophisticated songwriting. Since playing with The Dead South

(garnishing her a Juno in 2018), her musicianship and profile has skyrocketed. She is a versatile

player, a seasoned performer, teacher, and session musician who brings an authenticity and

energy to her music through her unstoppable and ferocious spirit.

Eliza Doyle is a bright, feisty, and fierce troubadour of exceptional talent and vision. Her

discography goes back to 2003, and since then, she's recorded on 24 albums, toured Canada,

the US, Europe and the UK extensively. Most recently, she’s started a non-profit, C.A.M.P

(Community Arts Mentorship Program) to bring music programming to remote and underserved

Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan, winning her a CBC Top 40 Under 40 Award, as well

as an Industry Achievement Award in 2021 and 2022, and a nomination in 2020.

Doyle’s latest studio album, “Pretty Strange” is a 10 track collection of bangers captured live at

Sidekick Studios in Nashville, TN on May 4th, 2022. It was released in March 2023 followed

by a 20-show tour in the US, it summarizes Doyle’s progression as an artist by framing her

unique and catchy, melody driven songwriting style in the context of an exciting alt-country/folk

sound. With driving banjo, guitar and pedal steel licks throughout the album to keep the listener

engaged and eager to discover each track, her fresh take on the Americana genre is a

welcomed addition to the scene.