Bio
Heather Feather is an an award winning Kindie Teaching Artist with toe-tapping music and sunny, energetic personality that will have the whole family singing and dancing along. She is the 2025 East Coast Music Awards Children's Entertainer of the Year, and a nominee for the 2026 Canadian Folk Music Awards' Children's Album of the Year. Her music blends her Newfoundland roots and her adopted Montreal home, and she performs in English and French. Heather's first album, Songs for Growing (2022), is filled with, “delightful songs and potent melodies all topped off with a lavish production” (Dez Staunton, Electric Kids Music), while CBC’s Sonali Karnick noted that her songs, “appeal to kid’s intelligence.” Her second album, Together (2025), blends upbeat funk, pop, R&B, and jazz tunes about inclusion, acceptance, and belonging. Her first album was awarded two FACTOR grants, and her second was fully funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Heather has performed for small audiences at libraries, large ones at festivals, and everything in between, in Montreal, across the East Coast of Canada, and in Brooklyn, NY and she is a teaching artist for Prologue Arts, based in Toronto, Ontario.
Heather is also a strong advocate for children and promotes diversity and inclusion through her music. As a disabled artist (multiple sclerosis), Heather is also a proud member of RAMPD.org. When not writing or performing she is the Chief Silly-Song-Singer of WeeJam Music, offering Parent & Child Group Music and pre-k music curriculum development and delivery for daycares, preschools, and schools. As a performer, she has held positions as a professional chorister and orchestral musician. She is also a published author, and her research has additionally been presented at national and international conferences of the Society of Music Theory, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and the European Music Analysis Conference/Jarheskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. A Music Theorist by training, she studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland (BMus in Music Theory and Composition), Bowling Green State University (MM studies in Music Theory) and McGill University (PhD in Music Theory), and taught at McGill before making the switch to becoming a full-time children’s musician…and has never been happier!
