PHARIS & JASON ROMERO TO RELEASE NEW LP, THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT TURN IN TO YEARS, OUT JUNE 12, 2026
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Four-time JUNO Award-winning singers, songwriters, banjo builders, and folk icons, Pharis and Jason Romero are releasing their seventh studio record. These Are The Days That Turn In To Years is a songwriter’s deep exhale, replete with stories, love, and nostalgia. It’s four years after the duo’s banjo-heavy last release, and recorded in the same eclectically restored riverside barn in Horsefly, British Columbia. With Pharis’ love of storytelling as a base for the duo’s artistic connection, the songs are lush and saturated with their lives: incidental touring, raising two kids, making banjos, and playing this music because they love it. The songs are created as much from ideas - from being on the tops of mountains and phone calls with aging loved ones to insomnia, meditation and family feuds - as they are from the joy of playing and recording with a stellar band: fiddle, bass, piano, and percussion. Two people in the thick of their lives, reveling in the music, words, and community.
Today, they are releasing the new single “Last Call”, a song Pharis began after a phone call with her dad, trying not to dwell on the thought that any call might be the last. It captures tender, funny and strange snapshots of stories from a long life, anchored by the sing-along chorus: ‘last call for old times, last call to you.’ With Jason on banjo, Pharis on guitar, Trent Freeman on fiddle, and Patrick Metzger on bass, the band’s joyful, slightly on-the-edge old-time approach playfully stretches the melody into an energetic ride through the tune.
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MORE ABOUT PHARIS & JASON ROMERO
Pharis and Jason Romero have a classic story. When some scratchy old records and a custom banjo led to their meeting in 2007, they quickly knew they were in for the long haul. The depth of their musical and personal relationship has grown incrementally over the years as they’ve explored old-time stringband music, how to sing like one person, and the banjo as an artform.
On their newest record Pharis’ love for the compelling pulse of stories as songs is the base for the duo’s artistic connection. The songs are lush and saturated with their lives: phone calls with ageing loved ones, standing on top of mountains, meditation, family feuds, nostalgia for things that haven’t happened yet, sleepless nights. The lyrics capture tender, lovely and strange snapshots of life, often anchored by sing-along choruses.
These Are The Days That Turn In To Years was recorded in their eclectically restored riverside barn. John Raham (Frazey Ford, Dan Mangan, Tanya Tagaq, Ocie Elliott) engineered and mixed, marking “the fifth record that John has come to make with us in Horsefly,” says Pharis. “I can’t imagine making a record without him, Trent (Freeman) or Patrick (Metzger). The songs are created as much from ideas as they are from the joy of playing and recording with friends and stellar musicians.”
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The group was also joined in the studio by Clinton Davis on piano and Pharis’ sister Marin Patenaude who makes a vocal appearance on the insomnia-inspired “Last Night”. The band’s joyful, slightly on-the-edge old-time approach often playfully stretches the melody into an energetic ride through the bouncier songs, while ambient strings and ragtime piano hold some of the more introspective pieces. The duo keeps to their roots with the spare banjo blues “Left My Home”.
Pharis and Jason tour incidentally while they’re raising two kids and making banjos in their home of Horsefly, BC. They play this music because they really, truly love it, and this record is a shining development of stories, love, and nostalgia from this unique duo.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Apr 24 - Kelowna, BC - Kelowna Folk Roots
Apr 25 - Port Moody, BC - Inlet Music Series
Jun 22 - Port Townsend, WA - Voice Works 2026
THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT TURN IN TO YEARS TRACKLIST
01 Big Time World
02 Last Call
03 Hey Babe
04 Always Losing Track
05 Last Night
06 Left My Home
07 Cannonball
08 I Got Away From Myself
09 Everybody Wants
10 Georgie
11 These Are The Days