From the Promoter

Calgary’s soulful vocalist and songwriter, Ellen Doty, released her much-anticipated debut full album titled Gold on May 29, 2014. The album features ten original compositions, including a co-write with Danny Michel (of Six Shooter Records) and a track by Toronto songwriter Kyle Zavitz. The official Gold album launch took place in Doty’s hometown of Calgary, with two shows at the historic Ironwood Stage on May 29 & 30, 2014.

The debut single from Gold is “No Good Man”, a jazz-blues song with sultry vocals that tells the story of a 1950’s housewife with a no good husband. The song features Tristan Campbell on trombone. Doty launched the single along with a video on June 11, 2014. The video was produced by Vancouver’s Collide Entertainment, and made possible with a grant from Public Records/Telus.

Citing influences from legendary singers like Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, to modern artists like Michael Bublé and Norah Jones, Doty’s music is an organic blend of traditional jazz and easy-listening pop. “By turns sultry and smooth, jazzy and funky, Doty delves deep into the musical past while still keeping an eye on the future.” wrote Tom Murray of the Edmonton Journal. In 2013, Ellen Doty was the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Soloist’ award from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho and she completed a Banff Centre Artist Residency for Collaborative Song-writing at the prestigious Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. In May 2013, she received an album production grant for Gold from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Gold is a follow up to Doty’s six-song EP, That’s Love, released independently and launched to a sold-out crowd of four hundred at Calgary’s Plaza Theatre in Kensington in May 2013. The songs on this EP range from intimate, jazz-infused ballads like “Come Closer”, to driving Latin-pop with “Why Can’t You Be My Man?” to the bossa-nova tune “Love You First”, a song that received airplay on CBC Radio and Alberta’s CKUA Radio. That’s Love spent several weeks at the #1 position on the CJSW Jazz chart, and reached #3 on the Top 50 chart. In 2012, Ellen Doty was selected as a Top 20 finalist (out of four thousand submissions) on Canada’s Got Talent, the Canadian reality talent show series that debuted on the City television network. Ellen Doty completed a 15-city Crowd funded tour of Western Canada. The tour kicked off with a sold out show at the Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver in July 2013, and ended with a full house at the Ironwood Stage in Calgary in August 2013.

Now Doty is about to embark on a Canadian tour in support of Gold with her quartet that features Vancouver’s Daniel Reynolds on piano, London, Ontario’s Conrad Good on upright bass, and Calgary saxophonist and percussionist Oliver Miguel.

Ellen Doty comments: “This album truly reflects who I am as an artist. Not only is it an organic blend of pop and jazz, but it gives you a window into my very deepest thoughts and feelings. I couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world! It’s my gold.” Gold is available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rdio, and more.