ARTIST INTERVIEWS
KANDIA CRAZY HORSE
Kandia Crazy Horse is an indigenous country musician, rock critic, and writer. In her current Native Americana band Cactus Rose NYC, Kandia (Pamunkey) sings and is joined by guitarists Lonnie Harrington (Seminole/Shawnee/Choctaw/Cherokee) & Jeff McLaughlin. Their album Live From Lenapehoking: Field Recordings debuted last Fall via Bandcamp. Over two interviews in May and June of 2025, Kandia recounted her wide-ranging career in music which has also included teaching, interface with some of music’s titans, her 2013 debut album Stampede, and the expansive 2003 Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock ‘n’ Roll book that she edited.
Kandia Crazy Horse interview on podcast LIFT OFF w/ Veronica Cross :
This interview includes our 2025 conversations from May 21st which aired on LIFT OFF on WHIV 102.3 FM New Orleans (Bvlbancha) on June 1st and our follow-up interview from June 8th.
Learn more about Kandia Crazy Horse at: Listen to Cactus Rose NYC Music (via Country Everywhere) Cactus Rose NYC Spotify Cactus Rose NYC EP available at Apple Music
Live From Lenapehoking: Field Recordings @ Bandcamp LinkedIn (Kandia Crazy Horse) Website (Cactus Rose NYC) Wikipedia (Kandia Crazy Horse)
Instagram: @cactusroselovesyou Cactus Rose NYC youtube channel …. For booking, please contact - booking@cactusroselovesyou.com
artist talks
Stephanie Pearl, moderator / gallery director, Veronica Cross and Tân Khánh Cao : Duet #1, curated by Leona Strassberg Steiner, 912 Julia, New Orleans, LA, 9/13/19
Kristie Mayeaux, moderator / curator / gallery director, Veronica Cross: DESTINATION (UN)KNOWN: THE VALUE OF FORGETTING IN ORDER TO RE-COLLECT, 9/1/19
Daniel Kany, moderator, Veronica Cross : Time & Place: Narrative Landscapes 2009-2014, Owen Gallery, Gould Academy, Bethel, ME, 11/7/14
MODERATOR - ARTIST TALKS AND PANELS
Moderator, panel discussion, I Can Do That: Artist Led Galleries, with Andre Pollock and Forrest Bacigalupi for The Ella Project, New Orleans, LA, 5/28/23
https://ellanola.org/upcoming/i-can-do-that-artist-led-galleries
Moderator, panel discussion of Healing and Wellness in the Arts in conjunction with the exhibition As We Heal curated by Leona Strassberg Steiner, via Zoom, 1/15/22
Moderator, artist interview, Leona Strassberg Steiner and Moira Crone : Alchemy of Night - A Bywater Duet, 912 Julia, New Orleans, LA, 12/21/19
Moderator, artist interview (recorded), Gamil Nassar : An Ecstatic Form of Disappearance, 912 Julia, New Orleans, LA, 11/15/19
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2021 Project Manager/Editor for a 1960’s-focused book of photography, Highway 67, by Charlie Steiner, in production.
