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Doris Folkens

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Doris is a rare songwriter - she brings a joyful compassion and curiosity into her songs. She paints them with the careful detail of an artist trying to capture not just the scene or people, but the deep feelings and more profound narratives that they convey.

-Keppie Coutts, singer-songwriter 

About Doris...

 

Doris turns stories into folk songs — stories that might have disappeared if not for her songs. Her music is rooted in people and the events that shaped them. Even the piano she grew up playing in Ontario has a tale. It survived the bombing of her grandmother's home in Hamburg, Germany during World War II. (The family house is depicted in the album art.) Doris picked up a more portable instrument, the guitar, in university and never travels far without it. 

After settling into a physiotherapy career, Doris studied song writing with Berklee College of Music. Influenced by artists such as Gillian Welch, Eva Cassidy and The Wailin’ Jenny’s, her songs are reminiscent of an era when storytelling was a community pastime. 

Doris’ debut, self-titled, old-time inspired album, is produced by Toronto’s seven-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner, Andrew Collins and was released June 1, 2018. 

Ontario’s music industry is already recognizing her songcraft. She’s the 2017 recipient of Folk Music Ontario’s “Songs from the Heart- Humorous” Award for her song “Lonesome In The Grave No More”.

Her vibrantly narrative and evocative folk songs resound with bluegrass undertones and a good dose of nostalgia.  

 

Doris Folkens is a true artist, songwriter and musician.  She not only beautifully shares her heart and soul through her melodies, lyrics and music...she also possesses a great understanding of the craft of songwriting.

-Neil Diercks, Berklee College of Music Instructor, Alvarez-Diercks Productions

At age three, using the one-finger technique.

At age three, using the one-finger technique.

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