Pharis & Jason Romero
Pharis & Jason Romero are a high lonesome folk group who hail from Horsefly, British Columbia. After cycling though a couple of groups, the husband-and-wife team set out as a duo, releasing their first album, A Passing Glimpse, in 2011. They slowly gained momentum through the 2010s, culminating in their Juno Award-winning 2015 album, A Wanderer I'll Stay.
Both Pharis and Jason Romero played music prior to their meeting at a fiddle jam in 2007; notably, Pharis played with a group called Outlaw Social between 2005 and 2009. They bonded over old-timey string music and married within three months. The couple relocated to Pharis' hometown of Horsefly, with Jason moving his J. Romero Banjo Company as well.
At the dawn of their professional career, Pharis & Jason Romero joined with the Haints Old Time Stringband with fiddler Erynn Marshall and multi-instrumentalist Carl Jones to cut the 2009 album Shout Monah. A year later they recorded Back Up and Push, which was credited to Jason & Pharis Romero and Friends. The appellation Pharis & Jason Romero was inaugurated on 2011's A Passing Glimpse, which gained enough attention for the duo to win the New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Their next record, 2013's Long Gone Out West Blues, expanded their burgeoning success, earning several CFMA nominations, including Pharis' winning nod for Traditional Singer of the Year. The duo's third album, A Wanderer I'll Stay, appeared in 2015; it won the Juno Award for Traditional Roots Album of the Year in 2016. Pharis & Jason Romero's fourth album saw release in May 2018.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Sweet Old Religion
Folk - Released by Lula Records on 15 Mar 2018
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Tell 'Em You Were Gold
Pop - Released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings on 17 Jun 2022
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Bet On Love
Folk - Released by Lula Records on 15 May 2020
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Sweet Old Religion
Folk - Released by Lula Records on 18 May 2018
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Long Gone Out West Blues
Country - Released by Lula Records on 5 Feb 2013
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A Passing Glimpse
Country - Released by Lula Records on 2 Jul 2011
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Souvenir B/W Pale Morning
Pop - Released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings on 19 Apr 2022
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Cannot Change It All B/W Old Bill's Tune
Pop - Released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings on 25 May 2022
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Bet On Love / Hometown Blues
Folk - Released by Lula Records on 15 Apr 2020
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A Wanderer I'll Stay
Folk - Released by Pharis & Jason Romero on 3 Mar 2015
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