After two years spent wielding a backpack and guitar across the world culminating in a Thai PBS special on songwriting and indigenous rights, Kora Feder (rhymes with Peter) returned to the U.S. “very much up to the task of confronting the times we live in" (Folk Radio UK). Known for carefully crafted songs that often contain a novel's worth of words without feeling overcrowded, Kora has landed songwriting awards and praise for her wordsmithery and impassioned delivery (Kerrville, Telluride, International Songwriting Competition, etc). “Feder is the best young singer-songwriter since the young Anais Mitchell” says Rich Warren of acclaimed Chicago WFMT Folkstage & Folk Alliance International.

Kora's 2019 crowd funded record 'In Sevens' spent four months on US Folk Radio Charts. NPR described a solo performance off In Sevens as carrying "an emotional weight that can stop you in your tracks, even long after the song is finished.” I’d Be a Maria, a von Trapp inspired song from the record, has surpassed 1.5 million streams on Spotify.

In March of 2025 she released ‘Some Kind of Truth’, her second full length album that takes an introspective look at the life of a young person in America in the 2020’s, including a song “about how self-quarantine has aged her” (Washington Post) that NPR described as “eloquently illustrat[ing] the full range of emotions many people are feeling in the era of the coronavirus pandemic." The record is produced by fellow songwriter Justin Farren.

Kora grew up immersed in the Northern California folk music scene where she was a touring member of her mother (Rita Hosking)’s Americana band.  She regularly performs her solo work on stages across the world, from folk festivals to house shows. Kora is now based in Detroit, Michigan.