About the Band

After the gig in Charlottesville finally ended, Mānoa Bell and Teddy Chipouras found their third band member, Sasha Landon, outside, sitting beside a shipping container and sobbing. The three new friends had formed Palmyra two years earlier, due in part to convenience and circumstance; they were the three people in a shared songwriting class at James Madison University who seemed to take making music—and making a life of it, too—most seriously. They’d moved in together during the pandemic, written and rehearsed most every morning, and played a few early shows online. As that fever broke, though, they fully committed, hitting the road as often and hard as possible and steadily learning homegrown attention along the East Coast.