Abby Posner has been a working musician in Los Angeles for the past 18-plus years. She is best known for her ability to play nearly any instrument that she can get her hands on. She twists genres and pushes the boundaries of folk, roots, electronic, and pop music—making her “Genre Fluid.” She can play a fierce lead-blues guitar solo or throw down a complex Earl Scruggs banjo riff. She also plays drums, mandolin, or bass while using her looping pedal.
This CalArts music graduate has composed and produced music for commercials/TV, films, and radio shows (including Hulu’s Maggie, The Fosters, This American Life, The Art of More, and Last Tango in Halifax as well as custom songs for Facebook, Viacom-CBS, and CW’s Kung Fu). She also has music placed in commercials and TV shows all over China, Sweden, The UK, and Australia. Posner appeared in two episodes of Glee on season four and the Freeform show Famous in Love.
Abby has also scored the music for multiple films (Across Land Across Sea, Through Their Eyes, award-winning short animation Elizabeth Sees) and recently scored the award-winning documentary Lady Buds. In 2019 Posner played banjo and sang “Wagon Wheel” as a featured principal role in Bank of America’s ad campaign for the Ken Burns PBS Country Music series.
Abby has opened for such iconic acts as Phranc, Sierra Hull, and Dustbowl Revival. She has released multiple albums under both her name and Abby & The Myth, and released in 2023 her first full-length, Second Chances.
In 2023 Abby teamed up with Ships Have Sailed to write the hit song “Get Loud,” which won the grand prize in the USA Songwriter Competition in 2023.
In 2020 she won the Carl Gage “Give me Shelter in Place” Songwriting Award through the Topanga Folk Festival for her original song” Blind Spots,” and she received the runner-up award for her song “Emergency Use Only” for the 18th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards. She was honored to land official showcases at Folk Alliance International in 2022 and 2024.
Posner was an official Showcase Artist at Americana Fest 2023, and her music video Quiet on Sunset was recently featured on CMT.
Abby’s live shows are simply mesmerizing with songs ranging from intimate haunting folk songs to upbeat festival/dance-your-pants-off hits.