The easy energy in Seth Witcher’s catchy singer-songwriter pop is indicative of the momentum behind a performer who went from a high school talent show debut to four gigs at Musikfest in just a year and a half.
With parents who played multiple instruments and a father who was part of a barbershop quartet, Witcher was more than encouraged to start music lessons at a young age. At Parkland High School, “I was the guy who would always play guitar in the hallways,” Witcher says, but it wasn’t until the Mr. Parkland talent show that he got up the courage to sing.
Somewhere along the line he’d been told that he couldn’t, and when he found out that, in fact, he very much can, his inhibition transformed into a defiant determination. “I realized that singing makes me happy, music makes me happy. I didn’t care what anybody thought,” he says. “I’m never turning back from this.”
Confidence and talent converged to get Witcher from open mics to bar and restaurant gigs, and now he’s played for the City of Allentown’s events, the Lehigh Valley Zoo, Musikfest and regularly appears at Hops Fogelsville. “I love performing, putting smiles on people’s faces,” he says. Witcher presents himself as evidence that dreams can be brought to reality.
His sound is current, contagious and in demand, influenced by the likes of Sia, Eminem and Ed Sheeran, and sharing their dominant vocals and genre-fusing freshness. You can find several original singles online, and as a prolific songwriter, Witcher expects an album out this winter.
With the indomitable spirit of someone committed to his calling, he cheerfully warns listeners, “You can’t hide from me. Keep watching, you’ll see what happens.”
