CHRIS DONOHUE
BASSIST
COMPOSER
PRODUCER
ARTISTS
TOM JONES
KRISTIN CHENOWETH
COLLECTIVE SOUL
JOAN BAEZ
PETE SEEGER
SOLOMON BURKE
DAVE MATTHEWS
ELLIS HALL
CLARE BOWEN
MAREN MORRIS
SIXPENCE
INDIGO GIRLS
ELVIS COSTELLO
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
IRIS DEMENT
LYLE LOVETT
DAVE MATTHEWS
SASS JORDAN
T.S. MONK
JOE FRAZIER
AMY GRANT
TIFFANY
EMMYLOU HARRIS
STEVE MARTIN
JEFF DANIELS
LYLE LOVETT
RITA WILSON
CARLENE CARTER
LAUREN DAIGLE
LARRY CARLTON
GILLIAN WELCH
OVER THE RHINE
JENNIFER PAIGE
ROBERT PLANT
DONOVAN
LINDA RONSTADT
ARLO GUTHRIE
THE MCGARRIGLES
STEVE EARLE
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BRIAN BLADE
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
VINCE GILL
BEN RECTOR
MUSICALS
ASSASSINS
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
COMPANY
DOGFIGHT
ELF
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
GODSPELL
GYPSY
HEATHERS
IN THE HEIGHTS
SEUSSICAL
SPAMALOT
ABOUT
I'm a Nashville-based session bassist, producer, composer, music supervisor, and platinum-selling songwriter.
My bass performances and/or original music have been heard on various film and television projects for clients including the ABC, USA, Paramount+ and EPIX HD networks, JWT New York, iV Music Group Nashville, Burger King, Opel, Scholastic/Weston Woods, Vodafone UK, Mattel, Nestea, O’Charley’s, Clausthaler, and General Motors. I have written numerous cue projects for Bigger Story Music and License Lab.
My television performances include Late Night With Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Nashville, and many others.
I've been a recurring Guest Artist of Lincoln Center's Meet-The-Artist Series and am also the producer and co-creator of Coal Train Railroad, a family-themed jazz ensemble that made its Lincoln Center debut at The David Rubenstein Atrium in February 2011.
GALLERY
GEAR
I use Fender, Gibson/Epiphone (endorsed), Lakland, Nordstrand, Offbeat, Ernie Ball/MusicMan, and Univox electric basses, the KALA U-Bass (endorsed), a Boulder Creek acoustic bass, a late 19th century Tyrolean contrabass in the studio, and in performance the Eminence Bass (endorsed) made by G. Edwards Lutherie of Minneapolis, MN. I use Phil Jones Bass (endorsed) and Aguilar amplification, Daddario Strings (endorsed), and preamps by Great River, and Avalon, and recording software by Avid and Universal Audio.