Pharis and Jason Romero are pure craftspeople and top-notch musicians. They've won four Juno awards and seven Canadian Folk Music Awards, with naturally fluid voices and great sounding instruments telling sparks of life stories. From small-town life to wonder at the bigger things, everything is wrapped around a sense of joy and ease that comes from this small-town renaissance couple. They live with their two kids in the wilderness town of Horsefly, BC, where they also work as renowned banjo builders J. Romero Banjos. Their newest record, Tell ‘Em You Were Gold, puts their sublime banjos in the forefront of new and old songs released on venerable folk label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2022. It was made in an old barn Pharis & Jason spent years slowly restoring, and recorded in six days by a wood stove under northern lights with friends on bass, fiddle, mandolin and pedal steel. It is a testament to the significance of their work as both musicians and builders.