Bio

Home Remedy

Home Remedy is Rosie Newton and Lydia Garrison. They are a powerhouse duo fusing Old Time, Americana songwriter, Cajun and Zydeco flavors. They are both multi-instrumentalists and singers. They're tight, they're potent, they're deep, they're joyful! They're sisters in music.

Rosie & Lydia share an upbringing steeped in Old Time, Cajun and Zydeco music, as well as regional New York state thriving local music culture. For Lydia, this centered around her mother’s love of Cajun music and her Cajun band, as well as the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance; for Rosie it was her mother’s Old Time, Celtic and Classical cello playing, and the Woodstock, NY music scene.

In Home Remedy, Lydia and Rosie sing and play fiddle, accordion, guitar, banjo and occasional percussion.

Lydia Garrison

Lydia started playing in bands (Cajun and later Old Time) at age 12. At age 15, her 5 piece Old Time band (The Darling Clementines) won “Best Up and Coming Band” at the Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention in Mt. Airy, NC. Later that summer of 1999 she won the Youth Banjo Contest at the Appalachian Stringband Music Festival in Clifftop, WV. 

In 2007 Lydia recorded an album, True Lover on Sugar Hill Records with members of Canadian quintet The Duhks; a project called The TurtleDuhks, and the title track True Lover (one of Lydia’s songs) was featured in Sing Out Magazine. The TurtleDuhks toured in the US and Europe, alone and with the Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble.

In 2008 Lydia did a musical study abroad in Mali West Africa studying an ancestor of the banjo, the Jeli Ngoni. 

In 2009 Lydia began performing occasionally with one of her musical and songwriting inspirations, Akwesasne Mohawk singer-songwriter Theresa “Bear” Fox, and appeared on Bear’s album, Diamond.

In 2019 Lydia released an album mostly of her original songs with Home Remedy: a duo with the extremely gifted and powerful singer and fiddler Rosie Newton. 

Currently Lydia plays with Bear Fox occasionally, Home Remedy, The Makers, and Kevin Wimmer & Blue Eagle Zydeco.

Discography

“Eddie Would Go” The Darling Clementines 1999

"Turtle Island Dream" 2003

“True Lover” The TurtleDuhks 2007 

Appeared on Bear Fox’s album "Diamond" 2013 (this album won a NAMMY - Native American Music Award)

"Home Remedy" Home Remedy 2019

Rosie Newton

Rosie is a passionate fiddle player, singer, and accordion player. She is influenced by the many roots traditions in America, and creates a new spin on those sounds through her various musical projects. Rosie tours internationally with her musical partner Richie Stearns, in their duo, Richie and Rosie, as well as with her Zydeco band, Rose and the Bros. Rosie has also toured with The Duhks, Preston Frank, Kristin Andreassen, Red Dog Run, Home Remedy, the Evil City Stringband, and The Pearly Snaps. She has recorded four CD's with her duo projects: The Pearly Snaps, self titled, in 2010, Tractor Beam, 2013 and Nowhere in Time, 2017 with Richie and Rosie, and Home Remedy self titled, with Lydia Garrison in 2019. Rosie also put out a CD with Red Dog Run in 2015 and Rose and the Bros self titled CD in 2019. Her fiddling and singing can be found on the Duhks record, Beyond the Blue, the Western Centuries recording Weight of the World, Chas Justus' solo album Straight Ahead, and the Okee Dokee Brothers' various grammy nominated children's records, among many others. Rosie has been called upon to produce string arrangements and vocal harmonies in recording projects. She has taught fiddle at workshops around the world, at Sunshine Coast School of Celtic music, the Taylor Music Festival and the Black Pot Camp. She has appeared at major US music festivals; Rhythm & Roots, Rocky Grass, Newport Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, MerleFest, and DelFest, sharing a stage with Natalie Merchant, Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers), Jefferson Hamer (Anaïs Mitchell/Child Ballads), Pete Seeger, and the Mammals.