Monthly Concert Series: Brian Keith Gross & Friends

Poolesville native returns for an evening of music and memories with old and new friends. This concert is a part of the Canal Towns Partnership Art Trail.

Brian has kindly donated all concert funds to Riverworks - that means your ticket cost will go directly to building our new performing arts center!

More about Brian Keith Gross:

Brian is a native of Montgomery County, growing up in Bethesda, but settled and put down roots in Poolesville where he and Sherri started their family with Evan, Lennon and Stefan in the early 90’s. Brian was surrounded with music growing up with traditional and folk influences from his dad and classical influences from his mom, who also sang professionally with the Sweet Adelines Barbershop Show Chorus. Brian came to playing guitar and performing later than most, not starting till he was 18 when his parents moved to Abington Pennsylvania as a senior in high school from Walt Whitman. Being the only new senior in the Township HS, in a graduating class of 3200, in a way to meet people, Brian was asked if he played guitar, to which he answered “yeah! sure! of course I do”. The truth of course, was not knowing a thing about it, and headed home to dust off his dad’s old Martin guitar, and learning how to play with a chord book, and a love of the Beatles.

Brian also loved “audio-visual” being the kid who ran the filmstrip projector as early as the first grade, leaning to run audio, and lighting at a very young age he realized he had talent in both the technical and the creative, the fusion of which ultimately became his life’s work to this day. After college, in Ithaca NY, where he performed nonstop, he was fortunate to get a shot at touring with many of the most famous and infamous bands of the 80s as a “monitor engineer”, who mixes the individual sound for each performer on stage during a concert, rather than the sound for the audience. If you were at a concert from ‘83, to ‘86 for bands going up or down the charts, Brian was more than likely there.

Brian plays in “altered” guitar tunings, unlike the standard guitar tuning of E A D G B E for the 5 strings like Leo Kottke, Joni Mitchel and John Fahey with custom arrangements especially for the 12-string guitar, which is a part of his solo shows in Virginia, Maryland and Nashville, where he has joined his son Evan. Brian lives in Sterling Virginia and his children Evan, Lennon and Stefan are the never ending pride and joy of his life, each wonderful and also very talented musicians, artists and writers.