The California Guitar Trio returns to the Barns at Wolf Trap on its 20th anniversary celebration to mark the release of its latest album, “Andromeda.” The recording was the perfect opportunity to pair their instruments with a vintage acoustical system with a new digital and electronic process. No guitar lover should miss this treat. The CGT represents the optimal merging of three different cultures: Paul Richards from Salt Lake City, Bert Lams from Belgium and Hideyo Moriya from Japan. They met while studying with Robert Fripp in England. After touring with his League of Crafty Guitarists, they made their way to California to start the ensemble.

“Our diverse backgrounds have contributed very significantly to our music,” Richards said. “From the beginning it threw us together. We all experienced very different musical influences growing up, so our unique slant on music comes out even in our arrangements of other people’s music to keep us and our audiences interested.”