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Pharis And Jason Romero
Pharis and Jason Romero are a Canadian folk music duo, most noted as three-time Juno Award winners for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. They won the award at the Juno Awards of 2021 for their album ''Bet On Love'', the Juno Awards of 2016 for their album ''A Wanderer I'll Stay'', and at the Juno Awards of 2018 for ''Sweet Old Religion''. A husband and wife duo from Horsefly, British Columbia,"Musical duo plucks an idyllic life; Romero crafts instruments and plays old-time music with his wife". ''The Province'', April 5, 2013. they write, record and perform folk music. They also build handcrafted banjos under the business name J. Romero Banjos.Roger Levesque"Contemporary musicians have folk-roots tuned to nature, jazz roots tuned to 1920s" ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', October 16, 2018. History The pair met at an old-time fiddle jam and later married.Anna Borowiecki"Chatter celebrates Pharis and Jason Romero, Bridget Ryan and Maggie Tree" ''St. Albert Gazette'', October 16, 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsefly, British Columbia
Horsefly is an unincorporated community on the northwest shore of the Horsefly River, in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia. The location, via BC Highway 97, Likely Rd, and Horsefly Rd, is about northeast of Williams Lake, and by road south of Quesnel Lake. Mining Peter Dunlevey's party of prospectors is credited with the first discovery of gold in the Cariboo Gold Rush near the site of the present village. However, evidence indicates H.O. Bowe's party arrived weeks earlier to the Horsefly River in the summer of 1859. That year, at least four separate groups found gold. During the following years, small placer operations existed. In 1884, Thaddeus Harper obtained sizable mining leases, but his operations from 1886 to 1888 were unsuccessful. In 1891, R.T. Ward, who had bought or leased the Harper claims, found paying ground. Called the Horsefly Gold Mining Co., activities continued until 1902. From 1891, the Miocene Gravel Mining Co undertook underground hard-rock mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |