Feven Kidane is an Ethiopian Canadian multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, bass, and synthesizer), composer, band leader, and electronic musician from Vancouver, BC, which sits on lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. In interviews she has spoken about being inspired by jazz, ethio-jazz, and video game music since she was a child, which has influenced her creative work today. She started playing the clarinet in school but switched to the trumpet in the sixth grade, which is where her love for instrumental music blossomed. Kidane graduated from the esteemed jazz program at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Since then, she has worked as a band leader of the ensembles including the Feven Kidane Quartet and the Feven Kidane Sextet. As a sessional musician and collaborator, Kidane explores and experiments with multiple genres from jazz to spoken word to psychedelic country, and many others. She’s played for artists like Mulatu Astatke (2026), Snotty Nose Rez Kids (2025), Tia Wood (2025), and Digable Planets (2025); and notably opened with Kimmortal for Thundercat in 2022. Kidane is known for her creative projects and collaborations with local artists including electronic musician/tenor saxophone player, Andromeda Monk and saxophonist, Gordy Li. Further, as a known improvisor in the free jazz community she has been a member of the New Orchestra Workship Society in Vancouver (est. 1977), promoting and supporting improvising musicians throughout the Greater Vancouver Area.

Kidane has released several tracks and albums on Bandcamp, where her most recent album, mechanical fantasy, was uploaded in August 2023. On her account she describes that she “seeks to extend the vision of 8bit composition through an Afrofuturist lens. Moreover, her songs and compositions revolve around themes of family, identity, and the Afro-diaspora. With utmost respect and regard for Black American musical traditions, like jazz of the 1960’s and 1970’s, her work is rooted in the principles of decolonialisation, spirituality, and self-liberation.”