🎥 'The New Odyssey Guy' set to take the stage in Sharon Springs

WPAA

Multi-musician entertainer Gary Todd is known as The New Odyssey Guy. Sponsored by Western Plains Arts Association, Todd will be taking the stage of the Wallace County High School Auditorium, 521 North Main Street, Sharon Springs, on Sunday, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. MST (3 p.m. CST).

Admission is by WPAA season ticket, or adults $10, students $5 at the door. In addition to business sponsors and other generous foundations, this program receives major grant funding from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan, Kan.

Prior to launching a solo career featuring Todd playing ten different instruments, he was one of three guys from the greater Chicago area who played a combined number of 30 instruments from late 1977 through 2018 known as New Odyssey.

Breaking into the entertainment industry at age 2, he began performing as an acrobat in his family act “The Tumbling Todd’s.” By the age of 13 he had already headed out on his own with his first single act, entertaining the crowds with music, comedy and tumbling. A few years later at the age of 17, Gary joined a midwestpub and night club band “Odyssey."

He regularly plays: trumpet, bass trumpet, pocket trumpet, banjo, electric guitar, soprano sax, alto sax, baritone, flugelhorn, and the electronic drums.

“Originally I picked up the drums to join my brother’s band ‘Wally and the Whalers’,” Todd said. "My drums have evolved from a traditional acoustic set to the current electronic drums in use today. ... The drums have always been a mainstay of my identity as a musician.”

Visit the Website: www.thenewodysseyguy.com for pictures, videos and more.