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 wealth of experience which is by no means the norm for someone so young" (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. After comparing her to Anais Mitchell, Rich Warren (of Folkstage & Folk Alliance International) called Kora "the most talented new singer-songwriter I've heard in the past decade”

Kora's 2019 crowd funded record 'In Sevens' spent four months on US 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,” wrote The Sacramento Bee. 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.

Kora grew up immersed in the Northern California folk music scene where she was a touring member of her mother’s Americana band.  Before the Covid-19 era, she regularly performed her solo work on stages across the world; from workshops in Bangkok to folk festivals and house shows across the United States. 

In 2024 she is planning the release of 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.

Although she grew up in California and spent much of her post-grad years in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, Kora is based in Detroit as of 2023.