By Amy Nile, Herald Writer
EDMONDS — A new nonprofit group is raising money in hopes of starting several steel-drum bands for children and adults here.
Steel Magic Northwest earlier this month kicked off a campaign to raise $60,000 to buy steel pans, or percussion instruments that come from the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, off the northern coast of South America. Once the group has instruments to play on, it wants to provide reduced-cost steel band participation for musicians. The hope is to eventually find enough outside support that people can play for free.
The nonprofit is the brainchild of Gary Gibson, a steel pan musician and composer from Edmonds. Gibson teaches at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts and has played with various groups all over the city, including at the Paramount and 5th Avenue theaters.
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