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Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers (The Kennedy Center)

Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers

With a blow-your-hair-back vocal presence that occasionally yields to whisper-soft vulnerability, 22-year-old Samantha Crain unites the sounds of confidence and desperation.  Lyrics about disaster and despair peacefully coexist with anthems of community and reconciliation. Here are darkness and light; here are life and death. These colliding realities stem most notably from Crain's unlikely artistic heritage, which she wears on her sleeve but just as readily transcends. Hailing from Shawnee, OK, the state that birthed The Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie, Samantha Crain writes with both the brazen conviction of the latter and the unflinching creative ambition of the former.

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Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers 7/10/09: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers

Led by the 22-year-old Shawnee, Oklahoma native, the band delivers songs in a style that’s been described as “meshing freak folk with a deep-seated, dust-bowl soul,” as heard on their debut Songs in the Night. Part of the NMAI Summer Music Series, presented in cooperation with the National Museum of the American Indian.

Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers

Led by the 22-year-old Shawnee, Oklahoma native, the band delivers songs in a style that’s been described as “meshing freak folk with a deep-seated, dust-bowl soul,” as heard on their debut Songs in the Night. Part of the NMAI Summer Music Series, presented in cooperation with the National Museum of the American Indian.

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