Notes on View: Thomas Hinds

Live music in the galleries inspired by art—Notes on View is a pop-up music series at the NCMA featuring 40-minute live performances that respond to and resonate with works on display. Ranging from contemporary sounds to classical compositions, performances invite you to experience the galleries in a new way: through sound, space, and shared creativity.

About the artist
Thomas Hinds is a hard-touring troubadour surviving on raw talent and a heartfelt folk-rock repertoire. “I want people to get a sense of comfort from my music, knowing that they’re not alone. There’s always hope, and there’s beauty even in hard times.” Like most great artists’ work, Hinds’s songs are largely autobiographical. It’s simply him: his heart and his life experience laid bare.

With his 2015 debut album Ghosts and Lamentations and follow-up EP Barbwire Bouquet, he hit the road in earnest in 2019 and soon was playing almost 150 shows a year. Noting that many of the wineries, distilleries, festivals, and house parties he played were within a five-hour radius of Atlanta, he moved from New Mexico to north Georgia. Hinds is supporting the album Where Do We Go From Here with evocative video content, showcases at festivals, including SXSW and Americana Fest 2024, and, of course, more countless miles in his trusty van. Gaining fans in a grassroots way, one-by-one, show-by-show, his hard-fought career is already a success by its very existence.

Image: Courtesy of the artist