Award-winning novelist, filmmaker and musician, David Doucette grew up on Cape Breton Island, Canada. Doucette has been writing stories and composing music from the age of six. His novel Strong at the Broken Places won the Dartmouth Book Award for Best Canadian Fiction. Doucette has lived in Asia, South America and the Middle East, working as an instrumentalist, film composer and screenplay writer. He is owner of Smokey Studios, a film and music production company set in the Highlands of Cape Breton Island. His novel, North of Smokey, is set to be released as a feature film in 2026. His 2025 Cape Breton jazz documentary, The Piano Tuner is presently on the film festival circuit. Smokey Studios is the creator of the podcast, Harry the Guitar Player. “If David Lynch had a podcast, this would be it!” The new podcast soundtrack, Sing Me A Song, is ready for listening.
