Tapspace is honored to welcome Joshua Garrett as their first composer to kick off their new category of steel band music!

Joshua Garrett, a freelance musician and composer from Wheeling, WV, has been arranging and composing for steel drum and percussion ensembles in the upper Ohio Valley since age 11. Josh has written for ensembles in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California.

His pieces, Distractions and Very Much (A Lot), as well as other original compositions have been performed by the West Virginia University Percussion Department. He has studied with George Willis and Al Wrublesky, professors of percussion studies at WVU, and currently performs with the Adrian Niles Band and Steel Cassa, a professional steel drum band in the upper Ohio Valley.