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Olivia Komahcheet is an American composer, producer, musician, and artist whose work spans within spaces of music, visual media, and phantasmagoria. Olivia's touring experience encompasses over 50 live performances throughout the US and Canada that include The NAMM Show, SXSW, House of Blues Las Vegas, International Indigenous Music Summit and The Gathering of Nations
Olivia Komahcheet
For 3 decades , brother and sister Jeneda and Clayson Benally have been recording and touring bringing their empowering organic conscious raising charged music to communities throughout Europe and North America. Multi award winning musicians Jeneda and Clayson Benally from the (Dine) Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona create an explosive duo of bass, drums & vocals.
SIHASIN
A member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard MA, performing songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music Red Roots Americana. The Washington Post described Thea as a "standout writer”. In January 2023, she received a grant from the Newport Festivals Foundation. Her song, “The Ghost Of Emmett Till”, was awarded the grand prize by the Great American Song Co.
THEA HOPKINS