Native American Heritage Month Essential Artist: Samantha Crain

  • November 18, 2024
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November is National Native American Heritage Month and all month long we pay tribute to the rich ancestry and cultural heritage of the Indigenous people of this land.

Every Monday we celebrate Indigenous excellence with music from an Essential Artist of the Day and today we feature Samantha Crain. 

Samantha Crain is a Choctaw singer, songwriter, poet, producer, and musician from Oklahoma. She is a three-time Native American Music Award winner and winner of an Indigenous Music Award. Fancy Dance was Samantha’s film score composer debut in 2023, highlighting her unique and personal approach to music. She returns in 2024 with the musical score for the documentary short, Winding Path.

Her genre-spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Paste, No Depression, NPR, PRI, The Guardian, NME, Uncut, and others. She has had her songs featured in film and television over the years, notably; Reservation Dogs, The Dark Divide, Marvel's Echo, Resident Alien, 90210, Hung, and many others. She has toured extensively over the past 15 years nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with a band and intimate folk-leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, Langhorne Slim, The Staves, and many other bands and artists.

Listen for our Essental Artist of the Day every Monday at 8am, 11am & 3pm.

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