Fellow Pynins
photo : Justin Gordon
Fellow Pynins is an award winning American contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony and song craft anchored in the balladry tradition. The duo has gathered significant traction in the US/UK/Ireland gracing stages at festivals such as Cambridge Folk Festival and selling out legs of their most recent UK/Ireland/US tour.
Although identifying mainly as songwriters, in May 2022 the duo released Lady Mondegreen - an album of reimagined traditional ballads gathered from their travels abroad. The duo’s sophomore album was received with remarkably positive reviews and garnered substantial plays on NPR, BBC, and Radio RTÉ stations. Songlines states “Lady Mondegreen is an exquisitely harmonised treasure trove of imaginatively reinterpreted, historically significant acoustic music” while Paul McGee of Lonesome Highway stated it as one of the best folk albums of 2022. In 2020 the duo was selected by NPR’s Bob Boilen as one of the best performances in the Tiny Desk submissions in 2020.
Wielding claw-hammer banjo, Irish bouzouki, mandolin and acoustic guitar, a Fellow Pynins live performance is a whimsically emotional escapade through the chasms of the human emotional spectrum. Dashed with spontaneous and clever banter, mirth and woe, you will probably cry and laugh, a lot. The duo thrives in quiet and focused listening oriented venues (small theaters, performing arts centers, house concerts, etc).
Now booking concerts + festivals in the USA, Canada, UK + Ireland.
“Folk Music with a hefty touch of whimsy.”
- Bob Boilen (NPR)
"Endearing whimsy, down-home charm, goose-bump harmonies, persuasive musicality and some cracking tunes. What's not to like?"
- Colin Irwin, Mojo
"Fascinating stuff!"
- Frank Hennessy, BBC Radio Wales
"Spellbinding"
- Country Music People
“There is a great beauty in both their timing and the subtle flourishes of their arrangements that ebb and flow perfect, they sound at one with the song. They have mastered a stunning blend that walks a perfectly balanced line between empathy and originality.”
- Alex Gallacher, FOlk Radio UK
“Fellow Pynins will transport you into their haunting and beguiling world of love tales and spine tingling harmonies… They will have you travelling far and wide to hear them again.”