Edmonds Steel-Pan Virtuoso Performing Tonight at Unitarian Church

An evening of steel-pan music is in store tonight at 8 at in Edmonds.

Performing will be Gary Gibson and the Reuel Lubag Jazz Trio. Gibson is is known internationally as a performer and composer of progressive music for the steel pan. He is one of only a handful of musicians successfully incorporating this instrument into more traditional music environments. His advocacy for the steel pan balances a healthy respect for its origins in Trinidad with its instrumental potential well outside its Caribbean identity.

Gibson lives in Edmonds.

A percussionist since the age of 5, Gibson's musical experience is broad, including work as the drummer and percussionist at Seattle’s 5th Avenue orchestra and film-score recording as a section percussionist with Seattle Symphony musicians. He is on the music faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, and is a music educator in workshops and clinics at college programs throughout the U.S.

For this EUUC concert, Gibson will be accompanied by the Reuel Lubag Jazz Trio with Reuel Lubag on piano. Gary and the trio have recently recorded numerous jazz standards for an upcoming CD.

Tickets are $20, $5 for ages 12-18 and free for kids 11 and under. Tickets available online and at the door. The Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church is at 8109 224th St. SW.