SAMANTHA CRAIN
ARTIST BIO
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw musician from Oklahoma. She is a three-time Native American Music Award winner and winner of an Indigenous Music Award. She has toured extensively over the past 20 years nationally and internationally, and her albums have been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, NPR, The Guardian, NME, and others. Most recently, she composed the score for the award-winning film Fancy Dance and the documentary films Winding Path and Drowned Land, and has had her songs featured on Reservation Dogs and Marvel's Echo.
ARTIST PROJECT INFO
Misha Bok Chukfi Ahilha (Beyond Dancing Rabbit Creek) is a studio album and cultural revitalization project centered on contemporary Choctaw music and language. Drawing on eight years of Choctaw language study, the project will combine original songs, reimagined archival social dance songs, and new songs for cultural gatherings. The work will be guided by Choctaw language bearers, elders, and communities in Oklahoma to ensure linguistic and cultural authenticity. Through music and documentary, the project aims to celebrate Choctaw life, encourage language use among younger generations, preserve cultural knowledge, and provide a model for Indigenous artists integrating ancestral languages into contemporary creative work.
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