Fellow Pynins

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Fellow Pynins is an award winning contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony and song craft. The live performance is a whimsically emotional escapade through the chasms of our, yes, feelings. Dashed with spontaneous and clever banter, mirth and woe, you will probably cry and quite possibly laugh, a lot. Wielding claw-hammer banjo, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, and acoustic guitar the duo sings predominantly original music as well as reworked traditional ballads gathered from their travels.


“Folk Music with a hefty touch of whimsy” – Bob Boilen (NPR)

“Fascinating Stuff” – Frank Hennessy, BBC Radio Wales

“Fellow Pynins will transport you into their haunting and beguiling world of love tales and spine-tingling harmonies… They’ll have you traveling far and wide to hear them again.” – Lisa Dunn (BBC)

“Endearing whimsy, down-home charm, goose-bump harmonies, persuasive musicality and some cracking tunes. What’s not to like?”
Colin Irwin / Mojo

“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

“Strong vocal harmonies” – Smithsonian Folkways

“Fellow Pynins have definitely staked their claim as one of today’s most intriguing and authentic traditional folk acts.” – Music Mecca

“Fellow Pynins have made a fine contribution to the canon that respects the heritage while ploughing new furrows.” – Folk Radio UK
“Lady Mondegreen is a treasure trove of imaginatively reinterpreted, historically significant acoustic music” – Songlines