Thanksgiving has been played on NTS shows including Pender Street Steppers, with Welcome first played on 17 November 2020.

Thanksgiving is American singer-songwriter Adrian Orange (born in Portland, OR, on 20 March 1986), who also records as Adrian Orange & Her Band and as AOK.

Orange has been recording and performing since his teen years within the Phil Elverum, Kyle Field, Calvin Johnson social circle. His debut, "We Could Be Each Other's Evidence" on Vit! Vit! Records, was released in 2002 when he was 16. His earlier recordings were experimental folk music in which he often accompanying himself on guitar. At this time, he was self-recording his albums using analog equipment. While Thanksgiving is essentially a solo act, Orange often collaborates with other musicians in his recordings and performances.

Orange co-founded Marriage Records, which presses albums and prints books by Thanksgiving, YACHT, Lucky Dragons, White Rainbow, Watery Graves, Privacy, Adrian Orange, A John Henry Memorial, and other Portland artists.

During 2006-07, he recorded as Adrian Orange & Her Band and, in 2007, as AOK.