Amanda Shaw

Amanda Christian Amaya-Shaw (born August 2, 1990) is an American Cajun fiddler and singer from Mandeville, Louisiana. She was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2020.

Musical training Shaw received some of her early musical training in Southeastern Louisiana University's Community Music School. She studied classical violin starting at age 4, and at 8 began playing and performing Cajun music.

Shaw would have graduated from Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans in 2008 but she opted instead to continue traveling around the country to perform. Shaw earned her G.E.D. in 2008 and planned to attend Tulane University

Shaw has appeared in two Disney Channel original movies filmed in New Orleans: Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) and Now You See It... (2005). One of her best-known screen roles is as a principal narrator in Hurricane on the Bayou (2006), a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the erosion of Louisiana's wetlands. Her music is featured in Hurricane along with that of co-narrator Tab Benoit and New Orleans native Allen Toussaint.

She also hosted the annual The Amanda Shaw Cajun Christmas Special on WGNO from 2017 to 2021.

Discography Little Black Dog (2001) I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess (2004) Pretty Runs Out (2008) Good Southern Girl (2010) Please, Call Me Miss Shaw (2018) Joie (2020)