Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American singer, songwriter, film composer, and producer from Oklahoma. A two-time winner of the Native American Music Award, Samantha defies categorisation, marrying folk music with the sounds of country rock and college indie. Samantha's latest album, A Small Death (2020), was released on Communion's Real Kind Records. The album received universal acclaim with tracks finding themselves in constant rotation on 6music.

Samantha has toured extensively over the past decade nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with her band as well as intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, and many others.

https://www.samanthacrain.com/

Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee descent) is a songwriter and musician from Oklahoma, who fosters an additional interdisciplinary practice that interweaves visual arts, curation, and education. Born and raised in rural Oklahoma between Cherokee, Muscogee, and Osage territories, they are deeply rooted in their nuanced relationship to Oklahoma, and their musical practice is a reflection of that influence. Focusing on self-location, community, collaboration, and empathy, Kalyn sees their music as a way to lean into personal and shared narratives. Their songs embed Indigenous understandings associated with community and environment, navigatings the ways in which we all intersect with the hopes of building bridges of understanding between. Kalyn Fay’s music is “for you, for me, for us, for we.”

Kalyn Fay currently resides in Tulsa, OK. Recently, they were awarded an NACF LIFT Fellowship Grant and a First Peoples Fund Artist-in-Business Leadership Fellowship Grant. In 2022, they were featured on the fully Cherokee-language compilation record, “Anvdanelesgi (Performers),” which includes twelve multi-genre Cherokee Nation musicians. Kalyn Fay has released two full-length albums, Bible Belt (2016) and Good Company (2019), with their third record, ᎠᏫᏒᏅ (Garden), slated to release in 2024 under Horton Records (Tulsa, OK). Fay has performed at nationally and internationally acclaimed festivals, such as SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Folk Alliance International, Live in America, FreshGrass Festival, FORMAT Festival, and the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival.

Kalyn Fay holds an M.F.A. from University of Arkansas (2021), an M.A. from The University of Tulsa (2016), and a B.F.A. from Rogers State University (2012). Kalyn Fay has worked with Peabody Essex Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Eiteljorg Museum, The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, amongst other national institutions and international venues for performances, workshops, and creative partnerships.

https://kalynfay.com/