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.

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