The Haints Old Time Stringband


	June 1 New review from Bluegrass Unlimited... Highlight Review: "Each of the 15 pieces is performed wonderfully, with obvious love and respect for the sources. Lovers of oldtime string band music need this recording in their collections." Read more...
	May 15 Riley the Furniture Man included on Sing Out's May 2010 companion CD. Get your copy!
	April 3 New review from Rambles.net... "... their affection for the venerable rural-Southern songs, singers, and tunes is palpable. It makes Shout Monah not just riveting, though it certainly is that, but sort of, well, lovable." Read more...
	February 11 New review from The Old Time Herald... "This is a band that has used both their instrumental chops and singing to demonstrate respect for tradition, and show how they can build on it." Read the whole review.
	February 3 New review in from Americana UK.... "... this is music that has soul... The playing is simpatico, rich and full of nuance while the vocals... are simply beautiful. Quite simply, this is what American traditional music should sound like. Not qualifications, no ifs, no buts, it just is." Read the whole review.
	January 30 Shout Monah on Banjo Newsletter's "Best of 2009" list. Wow! Thank you Donald Nitchie and the rest of the Banjo Newsletter folks, and congrats to Kevin Fore and Chuck Levy for their fabulous noted recordings as well.
	January 25 New review in from Sing Out! magazine.... "They produce a delicate sound full of all the richness that traditional music offers. This is a very special recording, one that I'll return to time and again." Read the whole review.
	January 23 Fresh back from a great tour of the west coast with Carl Jones - what a superb treat it has been to play music with him. Thank you so much to all the folks who came out to each show, to our kind hosts for welcoming us into your homes, and to all the hard working volunteers who helped make each show happen!
	January 20 There are some new Youtube.com videos up of our performance in Oakland, many thanks to Tom for videoing and posting them for us.
	January 6 New album review in from the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange. "The band's renditions are as soaked simultaneously in elder authenticity and present effervescence as a Yellow Dog label CD..." Read the rest of the review.
	December 5 We just found out we won a Porcupine Award, the 2009 Jack Hayes award, for Old Time Music in Canada. Thank you so much to Steve Fruitman and CIUT, we are honoured.
	November 30 January dates for our west coast tour, including the Portland Old-Time Music Gathering, are up! We're really looking forward to this tour as we'll be performing with a very special musician -- a wonderful singer, songwriter and instrumentalist -- Carl Jones.
	October 27 Shout Monah reviewed in Banjo Newsletter as "a wonderful album... together they are one of the best new bands in a world of old-time music." Read the whole review here.
	October 23 For all you folks who have downloaded the album, we now have the liner notes for Shout Monah available as a download. (file size = 2mb)
	October 21 CBC Radio 2 will be rebroadcasting our Canada Live performance from this summer at the Vancouver Island MusicFest. Tune in online for the show at 7pm PST on Nov. 9.
	October 13 Our CD, Shout Monah (released May 2009), has been nominated for 2 Canadian Folk Music Awards - Traditional Album of the Year and Ensemble of the Year... Huge congrats to all the CFMA nominees and winners, what an amazing year of music!