Rigby Summer: Stockman Bar in Walden, Colo. (duo show w/ Shandee Layne)

Formerly touring as summerland, Oklahoma-based songwriter, Rigby Summer, weaves an Americana soundscape that reflects the road she’s traveled, from her Kansas City jazz upbringing to the beach pop of her former home in southern California to the red dirt roots of her current home in Stillwater, Oklahoma. While her influences range from Mary Chapin Carpenter to The Frames, Sia Furler to Johnny Cash, her sound often draws comparisons to Ingrid Michaelson and Peggy Lee—a little modern, a little old-fashioned, always earnest.

In 2017, after a five-year hiatus from performing music, she founded the Monday@Modella songwriter pop-up and the ALL MUSIC STARTS LOCAL initiative and started sharpening her musical teeth, slowly carving a niche for herself in the Oklahoma scene. Since then, she has had the privilege of sharing the stage with and learning from a myriad of local and touring artists, including Bill Scorzari, Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund, Heather Styka and many more. She was also given honorable mention in the 2017 Woody Guthrie Festival Songwriting Contest and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Contest, in which she was voted as the audience choice winner for her round.

Hher first full-length album “Geography” was released in October 21 and broke the top ten on the NACC Folk Chart in November 2021.