About
Our Native Daughters is a group made up of four black female banjo players, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Rhiannon Giddens. Their 2019 album, Songs of Our Native Daughters, was named one of the best albums of that year by NPR, and the group was nominated for duo / group of the year at the 2020 Americana Awards. The documentary film, Songs of Our Native Daughters, aired in February 2020 on Smithsonian Channel.
“Offers a glimpse of the strength and solidarity necessary in dark times.”
“Songs Of Our Native Daughters’ lays out crucial, updated framework for Americana.”
“Adds context and sound to the complex story of black Americans, a story that all people could learn from and connect to.”
“To acknowledge the foundational contributions African music and instrumentation laid for American folk and popular music at large is a necessary act at a festival like Newport Folk, but Our Native Daughters went beyond that to celebrate that lineage while singing timeless songs in a jarringly current context.”