Our Native Daughters

Our Native Daughters is a folk and roots music supergroup founded by singer, fiddler, banjoist, folklorist, and Carolina Chocolate Drops frontwoman Rhiannon Giddens. Featuring the talents of Giddens, former Carolina Chocolate Drops cellist Leyla McCalla, multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell (Po' Girl, Birds of Chicago), and alt-country/blues singer/songwriter Amythyst Kiah, the quartet parses through the darkest pages of African-American history, telling stories of resistance, resilience, pain, and oppression from a Black female perspective. The seed for the project was so...