Gary Smallwood’s journey to become a cornerstone of Loudoun’s music scene started when he, as a 15-year-old, saw the 1973 rockumentary “A Film About Jimi Hendrix.”
It was his “I want to do that” moment. He has been doing it ever since.
Smallwood grew up in Middleburg, the son of a town cop father and banker mother. His introduction to music, like most kids, came in the fourth grade when it was time to pick an instrument to play in the school band. With no room for another saxophone player, Smallwood picked drums…