UNION — Vose Library will host a live performance by Martin Gibson of Waldoboro at 6 p.m. April 21 for that evening’s “Zoom with Vose Wednesdays” event.
A songwriter, guitarist and author, Gibson has been writing and performing music for as long as he can remember. At age 12, he was rescued from a near pointless life of diagramming sentences, starting an insect and worm rehab clinic, and believing everything he heard from his grandfather who gave him his first guitar. He has penned more than 200 vocal and instrumental works for guitar, piano and banjo resulting thus far in two albums, “Guitarville” and “Country Music Spoken Here.”
Martin has performed more than 1,000 concerts and guitar and songwriting workshops at festivals, colleges, public and private schools, libraries, museums, and special events. He has opened for Buckwheat Zydeco, Michael Hedges, Bela Fleck, Leo Kottke and Jake Shimabukuro, and he was the originator and co-curator of the 2005 “Player’s Art” exhibit at Colby College in Waterville, which featured 108 guitars and instruments built by 22 Maine luthiers.
Martin song-jacked a few of the tunes from “Country Music Spoken Here” and added 20 more new songs in the styles of rock, blues, folk, reggae, opera, classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, and bluegrass to construct his musical, “She Can’t Stop Dancing,” for which he wrote the complete book, music, and lyrics.
Besides composing much new music, Martin has spent much of the last year rediscovering painting and drawing, writing a second musical, repairing guitars, and finishing a self-instruction book about guitar and songwriting techniques titled, “Time Well Spent”.
To register for this online event, email debra@voselibrary.org prior to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. Vose Library is located at 392 Common Road in Union, and is currently open for browse and borrow appointments and for curbside pick up.
For more information, call 207-785-4733.
For more information about Gibson, visit martin-gibson.com.
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