GUITARIST MARTIN GIBSON will perform a concert at Patten Free Library Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
On Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m., Martin Gibson will perform a free concert in the Reading Room at Patten Free Library.
Gibson has given more than 1,000 guitar and songwriting workshops at colleges, festivals, schools, libraries and museums throughout the U.S. He has opened for Bela Fleck and Buckwheat Zydeco, and he was selected as a finalist in a number of songwriting contests, including the Nashville Songwriters Association, Great Lakes Song Writing and Great American Song contests.
Gibson has penned several hundred original compositions for solo guitar and piano, covering nearly every genre. He has authored three novels, a screenplay and a musical. He also wrote an article on Maine Instrument Inventor Ned Steinberger for Fretboard Journal. He was co-curator of the 2005 guitar exhibit at the Colby College Museum of Art, which featured 108 vintage and rare instruments.
“Probably the coolest side benefit of what I do is that it has allowed me to meet some extraordinary people; some in music, some not; but all ply their craft with a silent excellence,” Gibson said. “Observing this has fostered an attitude that what I do is not such a huge deal. I’ve always subscribed to the belief that music and songwriting picks you and then it is your responsibility not to abuse the gift by thinking that it is any more or less than what it is.”
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