Abby Posner is an American instrumentalist and songwriter originally from Evergreen Colorado. Posner released her debut solo record titled The Gatherer and the Thief in the spring of 2011.

Posner moved to California in 2002 to study at California Institute of the Arts as a multi focused music major. World Percussion became a major focus, as well as developing her compositional sense of songwriting. During her time at CalArts Posner began to form the eclectic bluegrass-rock band, Fearmia, sharing lead vocals and songwriting with friend and band-mate Jesse Olema.

Posner also formed many side projects in her time in Los Angeles which included playing drums with rock band, The Paper Tigers, Bucket and String (a unique instrumental folk duo) with Posner on guitar, didgeridoo, and mandolin, and Emily Corwin on cello, East Coast west, an experimental Jazz Duo with Posner on guitar/vocals, and Mercedes Smith on Alto Sax. She has also played electric guitar with Kristen Cook, and Marcela Carmona.

In the spring of 2008 Posner scored the music for a film called Through their eyes an Agent Orange documentary. In the winter of 2011 Posner scored her second feature length Documentary titled Across Land Across Sea.

Abby Posner teaches music at several schools in the Southern California area, and has toured with Chris Pureka playing drums and banjo on Pureka’s 2010 North West Portion of her Tour.

Posner released her debut solo record titled The Gatherer and the Thief in the spring of 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.