In 2016, Charlottesville-based bands — David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum — created Golden Hour, an immersive, 60-minute live music experience where the audience, seated in the center of the room, is blindfolded. During the performance, musicians move throughout the space, creating an ever-changing sonic landscape with the intimacy of acoustic instruments and harmonies.
Eight years later, the founders began writing songs inspired by this unique experience, giving birth to the supergroup, The Golden Hours. Their debut album, Terra Nova, features songs both inspired by the Golden Hour experience and designed to stand alone in traditional music settings.
The Golden Hours are currently looking for partners to help launch the record and bring the band and the Golden Hour experience to a wider audience.
Praise for the Golden Hour experience:
"It's rare to know for sure that you'll remember an hour of your life twenty years from now."
- Jim Ryan, President of the University of Virginia
“I’ve never had an experience like the Golden Hour, and I didn’t anticipate how extraordinarily moving it would be. We need this kind of intimacy and beauty—and the lasting gratitude and hope they inspire—in our dark times.“
- Steven Biel, Executive Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University
“As someone who’d gone to thousands of concerts over my lifetime, Golden Hour was a revelation for me. It brought me back to my first show, the feeling of anticipation, surprise, and joy. It was like being reminded of why I fell in love with music in the first place. These musicians have crafted something special, one that will show how much we’ve taken the live music experience for granted, and how to recapture that magic again.”
- Stephen Kallao, host of NPR’s World Cafe
World Cafe feature:
Praise for Terra Nova:
“From a purely radio perspective, I would start playing ‘The Bright Ones’ today if you'd let me. I hear it in heavy rotation, honestly. The story of this has so much to offer on every level - the performance and presentation, the background, the collaboration - it's a PR behemoth just waiting to be unleashed. Plus, GOOD SONGS that stand on their own, even without the unique presentation of the live element. I cannot imagine how you can't get every single member of your audience to take a copy of this home with them at every show.”
-Mark Keefe, program director of WNRN