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Public Transit’s upcoming record, The Sound of Bells, is a folk exploration employing the tools of alternative music (historically the musical language of disenchanted Gen Xers and millennials) to illustrate the struggle to break out of disillusionment and instead experience an enchanted, almost child-like, life. Its second single, Our Dearest Michael releases on July 24th, 2026.
Public Transit is an indie folk collective whose core contributors include songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Noah Dirig, vocalist Aimee Dirig (both based out of Wilmore, Kentucky), and violinist Jubilee Chen of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Public Transit emerged in 2022 as a solo project of Noah Dirig. With a few cheap microphones, a budget-model guitar, and a laptop, Dirig began to craft ornate folk tunes in a tiny one-bedroom in Columbus, Ohio. Borrowing some old violin recordings from his friend, Jubilee Chen, he released his first single, Weights Too Heavy, in October 2022.
2023 saw the release of Public Transit's first EP, Still in Regal Glory. A minimalistic collection of Advent tunes, this release was the first to prominently feature Dirig's wife, Aimee, as a full-fledged member of the group.
2025's Hover, a collaboration with Chen, was an artistic leap forward for the group, and later that year, the group released the Willow Tree EP, the collective's most confident effort to date.
