They’re nice people who play folk music. One of them laughs a lot, and one of them is a bit mysterious.They’ve played a lot of places, won awards, and taught a lot of people. They have two great kids and a house in the woods.

Pharis and Jason have been quietly connecting with audiences  since their first record release in 2011.  They started out together playing mostly traditional music – banjo, guitar, and sometimes fiddle in an early old time trio The Haints, and backing up their favorite west coast old time fiddlers on a quirky and hard-to-find but well-loved release.  Over the years they’ve moved their original songwriting and nuanced singing into the forefront, and audiences have embraced their intelligent songs, the sounds of their instruments and their clear approach to being two people while singing like one.  Their newest record Tell ‘Em You Were Gold is a banjo-focused release out now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It’s a sonic journey through the tones of seven of Jason’s hand-built banjos, original songs and traditional tunes, half stripped-down duo songs and half songscapes made with fiddle, mandolin, bass and pedal steel.

Three Juno awards and seven Canadian Folk Music Awards later, they continue to tour and teach with love and care and two adventurous kids.  

They make their home in Horsefly, BC, where they also build beautiful banjos as J. Romero Banjos.  At home they're building banjos, rejoicing in the outdoors, eating food they’ve raised, and playing music in the kitchen.

Discography
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (2022 - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Bet On Love (2020)
Sweet Old Religion (2018)
A Wanderer I’ll Stay (2015)
Long Gone Out West Blues (2013)
A Passing Glimpse (2011)
Back Up & Push - Jason & Pharis Romero and Friends (2010)
Shout Monah - The Haints Old Time Stringband (2009)

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