Join the Haints Old Time Stringband for an intimate experience of southeastern US traditional music - singing, fiddle, banjo, 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, and Pharis Romero keeps the deep groove on the flat-top guitars. 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 from early radio days and before, and is a Banjo Newsletter "don't miss" album. Nominated for two Canadian Folk Music Awards (Traditional Album of the Year, Ensemble of the Year), the Haints play this unique repertoire with care, spirit and detail, adding themselves to the music and making it their own, never ceasing to inspire, engage, and challenge their musicality to rise to new levels.
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"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."
- Pete Peterson, Old Time Herald
"... 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
"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!