Early Life
When Doucet was six years old he travelled the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia with his father, who had recently completed a train journey across Russia. When he was eleven years old, Luke Doucet travelled solo across Canada (from Winnipeg to Nova Scotia). Two years later he travelled from Winnipeg to Vancouver, once again, unaccompanied, on a Greyhound bus.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but raised in Manitoba, Doucet grew up planning to become a lawyer before deciding to focus on guitar. Doucet got his first guitar when he was 13, and played in blues band with his dad two years later, at age fifteen. This was some of the first time he was able to spend with his father since his parents divorced when he was a child.
After playing in bands throughout high school, a nineteen-year-old Luke Doucet moved to Vancouver and joined Sarah McLachlan's band.
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