GOLDFEATHER BAND BIO

GOLDFEATHER is an experimental pop band based out of New York City. The whimsical brainchild of Sarah Goldfeather and Mike Tierney, Goldfeather’s music has been described as “a nightmare funhouse-mirror take on Carly Rae Jepson-style upbeat pop [that is] deeply disconcerting and outrageously fun” (National Sawdust Log), with songs that are “as crazy as they are catchy... a three minute rush of conflicting emotions over sonic exploration... sounds from one universe seem to be leaking into another" (New Sounds), “giddy, cute, vulnerable, and delightful” (I Care If You Listen), “full of light and life” (The Current, Minnesota Public Radio), and “pop on steroids” (The Big Takeover). Recent highlights include performing on New Sounds with John Schafer (WNYC) in July 2023. Their fourth studio album, Change, was released in 2023 on innova (American Composers Foundation) after winning the label’s national call for recording projects. Sarah and Mike have led rich and eclectic musical careers that inform their music. Sarah is a composer-performer whose compositions include commissions from pianist Timo Andres, ETHEL quartet, Contemporaneous, Alkemie, W4RP, and more. She is the co-founder, and artistic director and violinist of the seven-piece new music ensemble Exceptet and has an active career as a violinist and singer, including holding the violin chair for the Tony-Award winning and Grammy-nominated Broadway production of Oklahoma!, among other on-and off-Broadway productions. She performs regularly with new music ensemble Contemporaneous and is a teaching artist for Musicambia, a music education program that works with incarcerated populations. Mike is a four-time Grammy-nominated audio engineer and producer based in Brooklyn who has worked with a range of artists across genres, including Steve Reich; Medeski Martin & Wood; Stephen Stills; Julia Wolfe; Pharaoh Sanders; Judy Collins; and Alarm Will Sound. He currently works out of his studio, Fieldnotes Studio.

(homepage photo by Shervin Lainez)