| Reviews & Press for Shout Monah
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.
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Pete Peterson, Old Time Herald (Dec. '09/Jan. '10)
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.
- Bluegrass Unlimited (June '10)
... 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. 8 out of 10.
- Jeremy Searle, Americana UK (Feb. '10)
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.
- Tom Druckenmiller, Sing Out! (Jan. '10)
(Riley the Furniture Man included on Sing Out!'s May 2010 compilation CD).
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.
- Jerome Clark, Rambles.net (April '10)
All in all this is a wonderful album and shows off both Jason’s talents as a banjo player, and the growth in Erynn’s own style and strength as a fiddler. Pharis is a wonderful bonus both as a musician and a vocal talent, and together they are one of the best new bands in a world of old-time music.
- Dan Levenson, Banjo Newsletter (Oct. '09)
They play and sing superbly.
- fRoots(May '10) |
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Brief Bio
Join the Haints Old Time Stringband for an intimate evening of southeastern US traditional music - singing, fiddle, banjo, banjo-uke, and guitar - with rollicking fiddle-banjo tunes, silver dagger ballads, 1920s stringband tunes and more. The Haints have a penchant for tunes old, quirky and twisted, notably the great archaic songs that have almost been forgotten. With Erynn Marshall's highly regarded old-time fiddle playing leading the pulse, Jason Romero changes effortlessly between clawhammer and three-finger banjo, Pharis Romero keeps the deep groove on the flat-top guitar, and all three sing, from tender duets to the boisterous call and response songs of early stringbands.
The Haints' debut album Shout Monah delivers on their love for stringband tunes and songs from early radio days and before. It is a Banjo Newsletter Best of 2009 album, was nominated for two 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards (Traditional Album of the Year, Ensemble of the Year), and winner of the 2009 Porcupine Award for Old Time Music.
Erynn Marshall - fiddle, vocals, banjo-uke
Erynn has carved out a niche for herself as an old-time fiddler in North America and abroad, performing and teaching at music and dance camps throughout the US and Canada. Erynn's CD Calico was nominated for Best World category at the 2005 TIMA Awards and in 2006 she was awarded an Appalachian Fellowship (Berea College, KY) where she studied Kentucky fiddle styles for three months. Erynn won the prestigious Clifftop fiddle contest in 2008, where she was the first woman and non-US citizen to do so. She currently resides in Galax, Virginia.
Jason Romero - banjo, guitar, vocals, banjo-uke
Jason is well known for building among the finest old time and bluegrass banjos available, and you may have heard his instruments being played on recordings by Dirk Powell, Ricky Skaggs, The Foghorn Stringband, Ivan Rosenberg, and others. He is a versatile clawhammer (and bluegrass) banjo player, singer, and guitarist, performing regularly with fixtures of the old time and bluegrass music scene in Northern California for many years before relocating to Canada in 2007. From early banjo pieces in obscure tunings to driving banjo-fiddle tunes, Jason's playing is "superb" (Banjo Newsletter).
Pharis Romero - guitar, vocals
Described by the British Columbia Folklore Society as a "historical treasure," Pharis has lived her life in a wellspring of music. A festival favorite from four years old, she co-founded the celebrated Canadian roots-folk outfit Outlaw Social, performing at festivals across Canada and the Pacific Northwest including mainstage at the Winnipeg Folk Fest, Festival of American Fiddletunes, the Vancouver Folk Festival, and many others. A noted songwriter, her songs can be heard on NPR, CBC and BBC Radio 2. She currently lives on Vancouver Island, BC, where she directs The Old Time Vocal Choir in between performances with The Haints and her husband and musical partner Jason. |
