Bio, Music Lessons, & Contact

‘Kelli Frances Corrado has haunted folk sensibilities which focus on presence and healing’ - Emily Pothast, The Wire

“A master arranger”- JJ Skolnik, Bandcamp Daily

Kelli Frances Corrado (she/her), is an experimental singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who writes, perform, teaches, and wanders. Creating music that feels as much like an invocation as it does a composition. Growing up, she would sneak out to DIY shows in Chicago, while learning prayers ritual prayers from her Czech grandmother. That blend of earth and ether, grit and grace, lives in the music she makes. Kelli has lived in the Black Forest, London, and by the sea. Her sound is a broth of magical realism, lucid dreams, and urban mysticism.

Kelli first picked up the guitar playing in an ambient project, Arkade, but over time, her work evolved into a fully formed solo vision. With a background in operatic training, string arranging, and poetry, she channels many lives, past and present, into her songs: social worker, tap dancer, teacher, student, wanderer. Inspired to create and record in strange and sacred places: a Kentucky church from 1800s, a haunted schoolhouse, a seaplane port, tunnels with a 17-second natural delay, a field of swans..

Kelli's music has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, NPR, White Light//White Heat and Astral Noize. Radio played on NPR, BBC6, Dublab, KEXP and Resonance FM's Adventures in Sound with Joseph Stannard for The Wire. She has received grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Releasing music with Grimalkin Records, Enmossed, Flat Field Records, Lithic, and Aphonia Recordings. She is a member of the Female Pressure network and has contributed to compilations; Women of Noise for Palestine and #ShoutYourAbortion. Currently, Kelli is doing a residency at Woodbine Chamber in Louisville, KY for spring 2026. Partial funding for this residency has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.

Music Lessons- Guitar, Piano, Singing and Teacher Coaching

Alongside Kelli's creative work, she is a teaching artist with over 17 years of experience guiding students of all ages and skill levels, from first time players to professional musicians, ages 4 to 75. She offers private lessons and group workshops in guitar, piano, singing, songwriting, and teacher coaching. Kelli's lessons are personalized, rooted in theory, and centered on creativity, accessibility, and personal empowerment.

She has collaborated with schools, nonprofits, and social justice organizations, and is currently part of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture Creative Advantage Teaching Roster.

“Kelli is an inspiring teacher. She knew how to work with all three of my kids with guitar and piano.’ -Kari Stephens, parent

“Kelli is an amazing songwriting and guitar teacher"- River Irene, artist

Contact:

Booking: Performance, Projects and Other inquiries

booking.kfc@proton.me

Lessons: Questions, Availability and Rates

kfcmusiclessons@proton.me