“Rigby Summer’s voice is crystal clear and at times has echoes of Joan Baez, EmmyLou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Linda Ronstadt amongst others but there’s a timbre and richness that is unique to (her). ”
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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 longtime home in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the winds of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, where she’s toured extensively and now makes her second home.
The result is an eclectic cosmic Americana sound that often draws comparisons to Brandi Carlile and Lucinda Williams—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 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the ALL MUSIC STARTS LOCAL initiative, both of which have helped her carve a niche for herself in the Oklahoma scene and beyond. The result is a career built on collaboration and community, learning from and edifying her fellow artists along the way.