Husband-and-wife duo will perform at Victoria Event Centre on Sunday
When: Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.If car fanatics can give pet names to their automobiles, Pharis Patenaude and Jason Romero can certainly do the same with their banjos.
End result? Seven new additions to their banjo family: Papillon, Big Blue, Clara, Birdie, Mother, Bella, Gourdo and The Beast, all of which Romero built by hand. “We were paying to tribute to what has been so important in our lives, from the building of the banjos to the tone of the banjos, and all the different tunings, and the construction of the instruments,” Patenaude said.
The last two Pharis and Jason Romero records focused on the duo’s original songwriting. For their latest record, Tell ‘Em You Were Gold, Patenaude said they zeroed in on songs from the public domain — specifically ones written for banjo. “Banjos are the reason we met, and banjos are the reason we could move to Horsefly,” she said. “Banjos have been so good to us.
There’s nothing worse for an audience than watching an artist repeatedly tune their instrument, but Pharis and Jason Romero have found ways to avoid the inevitable in that regard. “One of Jason’s great gifts is that he can hear the tunings in his head, and he’s able — while I’m trying to be glib and casual on stage, telling some silly little story — to totally change tunings on stage while we’re moving between two songs,” Patenaude said.
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