Pre-orders will ship the week of June 6, 2026
For release June 12, 2026
Available on CD, vinyl and digitally

Four-time Juno Award-winning singers, songwriters, banjo builders, and folk icons, Pharis & Jason Romero have a new record coming out. These Are The Days That Turn In To Years is their seventh duo recording, and their first new music to be released in nearly four years. These two are an antidote to this sped-up life, and their new record is a songwriter’s deep exhale of two people in the thick of their lives, reveling in music, words, and community.

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 like on the first single, “Last Call”; “Last call for old times, last call to you, last call for company, I know you feel it too.”

These Are The Days That Turn In To Years was recorded in their beautifully restored riverside barn. John Raham (Frazey Ford, Dan Mangan, Tanya Tagaq, Ocie Elliott) engineered and mixed;  “This is the fifth record that John has come to make with us in Horsefly. I can’t imagine making a record without him, Trent (Freeman) or Patrick (Metzger),” says Pharis. The songs are created as much from ideas as they are from the joy of playing and recording with friends and stellar musicians Trent Freeman on fiddle, Patrick Metzger on bass, Clinton Davis on piano, and John Raham on percussion. Marin Patenaude (Pharis’ sister) 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, ragtime piano and subtle percussion hold some of the more introspective pieces. The duo keeps to their roots with the spare banjo blues “Left My Home”.

Pharis & Jason tour incidentally while they’re raising two kids and making banjos in their home of Horsefly, BC. They play this music because they truly love it, and his record is a shining development of stories, love, and sonic delight from this unique duo.

Pharis Romero - singing, guitar
Jason Romero - singing, guitar, banjo
Trent Freeman - fiddle
Patrick Metzger - bass
Clinton Davis - piano
John Raham - percussion
Marin Patenaude - guest vocals on “Last Night”
Engineered and mixed by John Raham
Mastered by D. James Goodwin