New release
The Road is Long
🎶 Now available on Bandcamp and on CD
Take Me Home (Recorded at the Saint Anne's Blues Cafe)
TESTIMONIALS
What others are saying
'My heart reacts'
"When a song hits home for me, my heart reacts. I love a lyric that tells a story (but leaves room for me to imagine it in my own way) and a melody that I find myself humming for the rest of the day. I don't get that very often. So, yeah, I listened, and listened again, and again... Just wow!"
- Sandra Giguère
'Crystal clear voice'
"The Road is Long is a stylistic amalgam of folk, country, and pop music rooted in the Judy Collins and Kate Wolf school that, very wisely, puts singer-songwriter Briana Doyle’s yearning and crystal clear voice way up front. The songs feel very personal. Yet, she makes them universal as she explores themes of nostalgia, connection and disconnection, and of moving forward as best as one can, capturing those things that are common to the human experience."
- Rob Jones
'It resonates in my bones'
"Your single [Take Me Home] is in my head all the time. I know it by heart & it’s currently my favourite song. It’s so completely real & it feels like it resonates in my bones. Gorgeous."
- Leigh Jansson Cooke
About me
I love songs that tell stories—and I love writing them just as much as singing them. My debut album, The Road is Long, was released in April 2025 and features original songs in both English and French, as well as my version of a very well-known song that's become a favourite at my live shows.
The album’s lead single, Take Me Home, was written during the pandemic as part of the Hillside Festival’s Girls & Guitars Songwriting Program. I had the chance to perform it on the Hillside stage, and it’s since been featured on CBC Radio One, Canoe FM, CKCU, Folk Everything, and other community stations.
"Imbued with wistfulness and longing, Briana Doyle’s “Take Me Home” recalls the folk-pop of Judy Collins and Sandy Denny in its purity of tone and depth of feeling. I can't resist music that is imbued with optimism, but also has a drop of melancholy, too. This one suggests a short story that lives in between its lines, and what a voice to deliver it." - Rob Jones (The Delete Bin)
"What a solid result. It’s also an earworm… I just listened again and it sticks … and soars." - Kat Taylor (91.7 Erin Radio)
In addition to my solo project, I perform regularly in Eastern Ontario and the Greater Montreal area with the folk-rock quartet The Breeze and as one half of the acoustic duo Pagoda Starling.
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