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Event
- Title:
- Pharis and Jason Romero with Erin Ross
- When:
- Sat, Feb 9
- Where:
- Wolf's Den - Lethbridge
- Category:
- Folk
Description
Time: 8 p.m.
Tickets: $20 members, $25 non-members
http://www.pharisjasonromero.bandcamp.com
Striking duet singing with acoustic and National guitar and banjo on originals and well-loved songs from others.
Biography
Quite
simply it would be a crime if this album were to linger forever in a
banjo music backwater - it must surely be a contender for the North
American folk album of the year. 9/10.– Americana UK
... a record that is further proof that the epicenter of Appalachian mountain music may very well have moved to the Pacific rim.
– Driftwood Magazine
With songs that are deceptively simple, their voices blend in harmony and hover in the air before taking up permanent residence with the listener.
– Folk Alley
This is by far one of the best Folk albums I have heard all year. Listening to them is a pure joy.
– Christine Linde, KBCS
Pharis and Jason sing like birds and play wonderful old time music. Listening to their recording, I hear a banjo and a guitar, and imagine these two sweet and talented people opening the door to their cozy home in the wilds of British Columbia. The wind howls and the rain drives outside, but inside is a warm fire and a music from the true vine.
– Tim O'Brien
Pharis and Jason Romero have that duet sound that I love; the close, tight, enmeshed harmonies, so that sometimes you can't tell who's doing what—but you don't care. It's the whole that creates the feeling and gives you the chill bumps. Great songs and spare, tasteful accompaniment. I loved it.
– Alice Gerrard
I like this CD a lot. It makes me think of the music I grew up on back in Kentucky. Great songs, and some really great playing too!
– Ricky Skaggs
--Christine Linde, KBCS
Coming from a thousand miles and a border apart, Pharis and Jason Romero met in 2007 at an old-time fiddle jam. Both had been playing music for decades – Pharis her whole life – and both were drawn to early country, old time, blues, bluegrass, and fiddle-banjo music. In 2010 they moved their home and the J. Romero Banjo Company north to Pharis' hometown, the small interior B.C. town of Horsefly. In this wilderness hamlet they build their finely crafted banjos, and write and sing dreamy old time country – and lovingly hard-cut music – playing guitars and clawhammer and fingerstyle banjo to the songs and tunes, new and old, they adore.
Writing songs about ageless characters, hard living, loss and love, Pharis’ songs have been played on radios around the world, and she was called a “historical treasure” by the BC Folklore Society. On stage from a very young age with her family's country music band, she was a co-founder of the western Canadian outfit Outlaw Social, an award-winning and innovative roots-folk band that released two celebrated albums from 2005 to 2009.
Jason was a fixture on the Arcata, CA bluegrass and old-time scene, and is "one of the best old-time banjos players I've ever heard " (hearthmusic.com).
Jason and Pharis played with the acclaimed Haints Old Time Stringband, with fiddler Erynn Marshall and mandolinist/guitarist/songwriter Carl Jones. The Haints released their debut recording, Shout Monah, in 2009. "They play and sing superbly" (fRoots), and Shout Monah was named one of the best banjo releases of 2009 (Banjo Newsletter). SingOut magazine said “This is a very special recording, one that [we]’ll return to time and again.”
In 2010 Jason and Pharis went on to release their concept recording Back Up and Push. This instrumental album of fiddle tunes by nineteen celebrated west coast old-time fiddlers with guitar and banjo back-up earned them the accolade "old-time duo of Canada" (Penguin Eggs).
2011 brings the release of their first duo album, A Passing Glimpse. A beautiful collection of songs lovingly sourced from old recordings or written by Pharis’ hand, it's an album of acoustic & National guitars, fingerstyle and clawhammer banjo, and plenty of singing.
Aside from building and performing, they also spend much of their year teaching at music camps and workshops including BC Bluegrass Workshops, Fiddle Tunes, Voiceworks, Fiddle Works, 108 Mile Bluegrass Camp, Georgia Straight Guitar Workshop, and others.
Calgary blues/ folk singer Erin Ross will be opening.
Venue
- Venue:
- Wolf's Den - Website
- Street:
- 1502 - 2nd. Avenue South
- ZIP:
- T1J 0G1
- City:
- Lethbridge
- State:
- AB
- Country:
-
Description
The Wolf’s den has a new location.
Lethbridge folk Club hosts a bluegrass jam on the first and third Friday of the month as well as an open mic in the second and fourth Friday of the month at their new location 1502 - 2nd. Avenue South, or MJ’s Cycle