Very special evening of music with Samantha Crain and Jolie Holland October 18th

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As an Oklahoman I probably don't have to tell anyone here who Samantha Crain is but this will be a very special concert to see her perform in Drifters for a listening room style show. I've been a huge fan of Jolie Holland since high school so this is a bit of a dream come true to have both of these artists performing.

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Samantha Crain is a Choctaw Nation songwriter, musician, producer, and singer, signed with Real Kind Records. Crain won three NAMMYs in 2009 for Folk Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year and in 2022 for Single of the Year for "Bloomsday". She also won the Indigenous Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2019. 

Very special evening of music with Samantha Crain and Jolie Holland October 17th

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As an Oklahoman I probably don't have to tell anyone here who Samantha Crain is but this will be a very special concert to see her perform in Drifters for a listening room style show. I've been a huge fan of Jolie Holland since high school so this is a bit of a dream come true to have both of these artists performing.

Little info and accolades

Samantha Crain is a Choctaw Nation songwriter, musician, producer, and singer, signed with Real Kind Records. Crain won three NAMMYs in 2009 for Folk Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year and in 2022 for Single of the Year for "Bloomsday". She also won the Indigenous Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2019. 

Jolie Holland is an acclaimed American singer, songwriter, and founding member of The Be Good Tanyas whose music masterfully blends traditional folk, blues, jazz, and avant-garde roots music. After contributing to the band's 2000 debut, Blue Horse, she launched her solo career and started releasing some of the most unique folk albums. Her poetic storytelling and unique multi-instrumental skills earned her a Shortlist Music Prize nomination championed by Tom Waits, high praise from Lou Reed - who famously told her he could listen to her all night - and her collaborations with folks like M. Ward and Buck Meek have received high praise as well.

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 Friday - August 14th - 8pm

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Charlotte Bumgarner is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Tulsa. She has been playing the local Tulsa scene for about 2-3 years as a solo artist and for about a year with her band Graveyard Party. Music has always been super important to Charlotte, especially quiet music. Charlotte’s sound can be described as a mix of many influences, but is mostly an emo singer/songwriter & folky fusion. Charlotte is also a big activist for female equality & rights and tries to integrate that into my songwriting and my footprint in the scene in general.

Moriah Bailey (Stephenson) is a singer-songwriter and a harpist with a heavy heart and plenty of sorrow to spare. The core of her music is her harp and her vocals, with sparse arrangements that may involve a piano, a lone violin, or some light percussion that floats around in the air quietly. Her music is minimalistic and matches her pared down and subtly shaded melodies. She has remarkable talent in constructing songs that are compelling, honest, and emotionally transparent. Her use of the harp gives the melancholy of her songs a classy and pastoral feel especially in combination with her beautiful, haunting voice that has Björk like notes peeking through in short stretches.

Alex Dupree is a published poet and songwriter. He got his musical start in Austin, Texas before
moving to California to focus on poetry, studying and teaching at UC Irvine. Songwriting was
never far from his mind. Despite a deep love for country music, Dupree’s songs never quite settle into that category, absorbing additional influences from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Bjork, and John Cale. His last album, Thieves, was released by Keeled Scales in 2022. Produced by Michael Krassner (Califone, Simon Joyner, Boxhead Ensemble), Thieves features Max Knouse, Aaron Stern, Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, Mavis Staples), Buck Meek (Big Thief), as well as long time collaborators Aisha Burns and Matt Matherne. The songs present a motley cast of characters who, in Dupree’s voice, combine to tell the story of a single self. Taken together, these wide-ranging stories feel deeply confessional, an idiosyncratic folklore of identity and rebirth. 

Micaela Young blends folk, jazz, and modern singer-songwriter elements to create her distinct, atmospheric sound. Her music while falling under many genres outside of folk and jazz. Sometimes the music feels like R&B and the next minute it feels like devotional carnatic singing with how lose she is with her vocals. Singer-songwriter is a vague enough genre to start with but Micaela is not what you might expect when you think of folk singer songwriter music. The normal formula for folk music seems to be something she never even considered. You sort of intuitively know what comes next when listening to a lot of music in that style, even non musicians can predict the chord structure of most folk songs. Micaela's guitar playing and most notably her singing style is so uniquely and specifically intuitive to her mind and emotions that you would never be able to guess what her next chord or musical decision might be. It's clear she's either already mastered her instruments or she writes and performs with complete freedom. She has a level of confidence in her lyrics and melodies that takes most artists many years to settle into and learn to allow themselves that freedom of expression. You can't predict the next moment in one of her songs but you can predict it will be perfect.

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The Doldrums formed in 2006 as a recording project between Mark Kuykendall and Dylan Aycock. The project employs experimental use of analog synthesizers, pedal steel guitar, accordion and using a large variety of other sound sources; field recordings, old records, found sound. Their compositions are experimentally crafted and improvisational in nature.

The New Honey Shade is Mark Kuykendall - a multidisciplinary artist and producer based in Osage County, Oklahoma. Known for his deeply evocative and experimental approach, Kuykendall's work bridges the realms of sound, nature, and visual storytelling. His compositions are defined by the fusion of electronically manipulated field recordings, analog synthesizers, and vintage 8mm and 16mm film footage. This unique aesthetic results in immersive works that evoke nostalgia while exploring modern themes of connection and memory.

 This will be a night of meditation, experimental film and ambient soundscapes.