Creighton Doane is a Canadian drummer and songwriter, best known as a longtime member of the rock band Harem Scarem.
The son of music educator J. Chalmers Doane and the brother of singer-songwriter Melanie Doane, [1] his first significant musical project was as the drummer in The October Game, a local Halifax band fronted by Sarah McLachlan. [2] In 1989 he had a role in a theatrical production of Michael Hollingsworth and Deanne Taylor's rock opera adaptation of Rigoletto for Theatre Passe Muraille. [3]
In the early 1990s he was the drummer in country singer-songwriter Terry Kelly's band. [4] He was also a credited songwriting collaborator on many of Kelly's songs, most notably "In My Father's House", which won the East Coast Music Award for Song of the Year, [5] and was nominated for the Canadian Country Music Award for Song of the Year, [6] in 1993.
In the mid-1990s he was a frequent collaborator with his sister Melanie, both in songwriting and as the drummer in her touring band. [7] He also independently released a solo album, Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear, in 1998. He subsequently joined Harem Scarem, appearing for the first time on the band's 2001 album Ultra Feel .
He released his second solo album, Learning More and More About Less and Less, in 2005. [8]
In recent years he has written music for film and television, including songs for The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie and Melanie's children's television series Ukulele U . Along with Bob Ezrin, the Doanes received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song in Television for "Use Your Outside Voice" at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. [9]