Биография

LA songwriter and climate justice activist Ethan Buckner’s indie folk/pop project The Minnesota Child is all about finding “the beauty in both the dark and the light” (Impose). His forthcoming debut LP, produced by Justin Glasco (Wild Rivers, The Lone Bellow), is a meditation on Buckner's struggle with anxiety and embracing a new chapter of adulthood in the context of social, political, and environmental turmoil. The songs weave between moments both intimate and anthemic, exploring struggles that are both deeply personal and unavoidably collective. The 10-track LP layers Buckner’s distinctive fingerpicking style, harmonic melodies, and heartfelt lyrics with production that is both sparkling and spacious. For more than the past decade, Ethan has worked full-time with Indigenous, working class, and communities of color to wage campaigns against big oil, gas, and petrochemical companies that threaten harm to communities and the climate. His work for social change, currently for the non-profit Earthworks, seeps into his music, as his anthemic songwriting encapsulates his belief that even in these tumultuous times, a just, equitable, thriving world is still possible.