Event

Pharis and Jason Romero

We're excited to bring Pharis and Jason Romero back to visit Victoria, as part of the 3rd Annual Old-Time Tidal Wave festival. You can purchase full Festival Passes here.

They'll be bringing a brand new recording A Wanderer I'll Stay.

Pharis & Jason released their second duo record, Long Gone Out West Blues, in early 2013. It's a record with a refreshing veteran spirit, in keeping with their love of songs new and old. Connecting 1927 to modern days they sing vibrant duets, write heartbreaking songs, play hand-made banjos and love old acoustic guitars.

Long Gone Out West Blues won this small town BC couple a Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer (and nominated for Traditional Album of the Year), an Independent Music Award nomination for Americana Album, and two Western Canadian Music Awards nominations. It was included on many Best of 2013 lists - including NPR Music's Top 10 Folk & Americana releases of the year - and has been featured on NPR Music's Favorite Sessions, Utne Magazine's Monthly Music Sampler, and Folk Alley's Hear It First.

Their first duo record, A Passing Glimpse, earned them New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Folk Music Awards, Americana Album of the Year at the 2012 Independent Music Awards, and and was included on many Best and Most Played of 2011 charts including Folk Alley, Folk-DJ, and Galaxie Folk-Roots.

Pharis & Jason have delighted in appearing on A Prairie Home Companion several times, the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton Folk Music Festivals, Pickathon, and at performing and teaching engagments across North America.

Opening act is Genevieve and the Wild Sundays.