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.
