Press Quotes
“an emotional weight that can stop you in your tracks, even long after the song is finished”
— NPR All Songs Considered +
“The most talented new singer-songwriter I've heard in the past decade”
— Rich Warren, Folkstage
“Kora Feder is obviously a rising voice on the American folk scene”
— Fatea Magazine, UK ~
over 1 million streams on spotify & 4 months on folk radio charts
"This plush and emotionally valiant collection of tunes has an ability to scratch out borders and barriers, aerating life into a singular boundless space, if only for a few stirring moments."
— The Sacramento Bee -
"With a lyrical straightforwardness evoking that of Pete Seeger, Ms. Feder masterfully shows the power of song-as-clarion-call."
— Roots Music Report +
“Kora Feder is very much up to the task of confronting the times we live in. She has accumulated a wealth of experience which is by no means the norm for someone so young.”
— Folk Radio, UK ^
“the carefully conceived work of a thoroughly engaging and exceptionally capable storyteller”
— Lonely Ghost Burning, UK #
“I have yet to hear anyone reach this deep to find it and sing it.”
— Eliza Gilkyson, in reference to the song ‘In a Young Person’s Body’
"Her songwriting is full of imagery and tightly crafted, showing an amazing command of the English language applied to her lyrics. Her timing and syntax add that extra emphasis to what she wants the listener to pay attention to. This young lady will go far."
— Houston Music Review ^
"Feder's lyrics eloquently illustrate the full range of emotions many people are feeling in the era of the coronavirus pandemic."
— NPR All Songs Considered ~
“Kora is an incredibly gifted songwriter in that she is able to write about challenging subjects like poverty and gun control, with unshakeable grace.”
— Cindy Howes, Basic Folk +
Podcasts
Basic Folk Episode 59: Kora Feder (2020)
Listen to the candid, in depth interview with host Cindy Howes wherever you get your podcasts.
Northern Spirit Radio: Song of the Soul Episode (2019)
A few of my favorite past shows
Strawberry Music Festival (Nevada City, CA)
Bluebird Cafe (Nashville, TN)
McCloud Mountain Bluegrass Festival (McCloud, CA)
Palms Playhouse (Winters, CA)
Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz, CA)
Freight & Salvage (Berkeley, CA)*
California World Fest (Grass Valley, CA)*
Vets Memorial Theater (Davis, CA)
Club Passim (Cambridge, MA)
Folkstage (Chicago, IL)
Bound for Glory at Cornell Uni (Ithaca, NY)
Rockwood Music Hall (New York, NY)
American Folk Art Museum (New York, NY)
Buffalo Friends of Folk (Buffalo, NY)
Sellersville Theater (Sellersville, PA)
Jamey's House of Music (Philadelphia, PA)
Fischer Fest (Texas)*
Kerrville Folk Festival (Texas) songwriting showcase
Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Colorado) songwriting showcase
Thai PBS Weekend Special (Bangkok, Thailand)
Just Passin' Through Series at Richard's Landing Town Hall (Ontario, Canada)
House concerts across the country! <3
*as a member of the band and solo opener to the Rita Hosking Band
Moments to write home about
2024 Working on a new record! Produced by Justin Farren
2020 Washington Post used a song in an article about how Covid-19 is aging us all
2020 NPR Tiny Desk Contest feature with Bob Boilen & Quinn Christopherson
2019 NPR Tiny Desk 'Favorites of the Week' Feature & Quote
2019 - 2021 Song placed on four Spotify Curated Playlists (over 1 million song streams)
2019 Independently crowd funded over 13k to make debut full length record ‘In Sevens’
2019 Songwriters Serenade Finalist
2018 International Songwriting Competition Winner - 2nd Place Americana (out of 19,000 song entries, 140 countries)
2018 Telluride Troubadour 4th Place
2018 Kerrville New Folk Finalist
2016 Music Director and Songwriter for a weekend special on Thai PBS - highlighting the issues facing indigenous and migrant youth in Thailand
Videos
Bio
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 cedar) returned to the U.S. with a keen eye for capturing a moment through song.
Her 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 a million streams on Spotify.
In 2024 she is working on a new record that takes an introspective look at the life of a young person in America in the 2020’s, including a song that NPR already described as “eloquently illustrat[ing] the full range of emotions many people are feeling in the era of the coronavirus pandemic." The record is being produced by fellow songwriter Justin Farren.