Career
Witcher, along with his fellow, was also named Affiliate Scholar of Oberlin Conservatory in 2014. Witcher started fiddling at the age of 5, and began performing at the age of 6. He is a first call session musician, providing musical duties for numerous film & television scores such as The Good Dinosaur, The Hunger Games - Mockingjay 2, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Hunger Games, Brokeback Mountain, Cars, Toy Story, True Detective, Nashville, Better Call Saul, Sons of Anarchy and many others
Witcher has also appeared on many records by such artists as Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Beck, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Fiona Apple.
He has also co-produced music with T-Bone Burnett for the television shows Nashville and True Detective. Witcher has written arrangements for Elton John, Kronos Quartet,, Rhiannon Giddens, North Carolina Symphony, The Secret Sisters, Nashville and True Detective.
Gabe Witcher began his performing career in 1984, at the age of 6, at the Strawberry Music Festival in Yosemite, Ca when he was invited on stage by Bill Monroe to perform a duet in front of a workshop crowd. Later that day Witcher, along with his father, were invited to perform 3 songs on the main stage in between acts.
This launched the formation of "The Witcher Brothers" which performed throughout the southwest United States for 25 years.
In 1995 Witcher was asked to join the "", led by veteran bluegrass/country musician, Herb Pedersen, after their original fiddler, 3 time National Fiddle Champion Byron Berline, moved from Los Angeles to Oklahoma. He was with them for 4 years and appeared on 2 albums with them. In 1999, Witcher joined Bela Fleck"s "The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Volume
2" tour (filling in for fiddler Stuart Duncan) with Sam Bush,, Bryan Sutton and Mark Schatz.
In 2002 Witcher joined " band and was a regular member until the formation of in 2008. Witcher spent 2005 working with Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina on the Loggins and Messina "Sittin" In Again" tour where he played Fiddle, Mandolin, Dobro, Percussion and sang.
In 2010, he joined the Dave Rawlings Machine for two weeks of tour dates. He performed with Eve 6 on the Horrorscope tour (2000-2001) performing bass and backing vocals, allowing Max Collins more mobility onstage.
He also performed on the track "Anytime" from the 2001 film Out Cold.
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