From Guitar World: The Police guitarist Andy Summers has never been shy about integrating his acclaimed work as a photographer into his music – often, during his recent solo shows, performing against a backdrop of his photographs. We’ve never seen him combine his twin artistic passions quite like this, though, as he teams up with the Fender […]
From Premier Guitar: Hollywood, CA (September 18, 2019) — A flawless union of supreme craftsmanship, rock ‘n’ roll and photography comes to life with the introduction of Leica and Fender Custom Shop’s limited-edition camera-Stratocaster guitar pairing. Created in collaboration with Andy Summers, an accomplished photographer, former member of the Grammy award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of […]
Accomplished photographer and The Police guitarist, Andy Summers has collaborated with the Fender Custom Shop and Leica Camera to create the Andy Summers Monochrome Strat set. Custom-wrapped with a collage of monochrome photos taken by Summers and crafted with touches that nod to his Leica M cameras, this limited release of 50 Stratocaster guitars is […]
Andy is pleased to announce his third tour with “Call The Police” his own Police tribute band! Andy is playing with two incredible and legendary Brazilian musicians: Rodrigo Santos on bass and vocals (Red Baron /Barão Vermelho) and Joao Barone on drums (Os Paralamas do Sucesso). Please see the dates below for the upcoming tour. […]
Presented in conjunction with the ongoing and pretty darn awesome Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andy Summers is bringing his similarly fantastic multimedia show to The Met on Saturday, June 22, at 6:30 pm. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! CLICK HERE! Recently published articles about the upcoming Metropolitan Museum event: […]
From SonicScoop.com: As journalists, we at SonicScoop have a responsibility to be objective. That said, pardon us if we gush for a moment about what’s next at the Met. This Saturday, June 22, at 6:30, the extra-galactic Police guitarist Andy Summers will hit NYC with what promises to be a very special show: A Certain Strangeness, a multimedia presentation […]
The music that Andy Summers makes cannot be categorized within one genre. It is a unique, personal musical expression with influences of jazz, classical, world music, rock ‘n roll and pop. His status as a guitar legend is based on experiments with both instinctive and composed sounds. His experience, improvisation technique, compositions and his ability to step outside […]
Guitarist Andy Summers demonstrates his dual musical and visual artistic practices with a multimedia presentation titled A Certain Strangeness on Saturday, June 22nd at 6:30pm at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Summers weaves an audiovisual spell by combining surreal imagery and innovative guitar techniques. The evening culminates with a conversation between Summers and Jayson Dobney, […]
Andy Summers’ newest book of photography, “A Certain Strangeness” is now available. Summers says the title of the book succinctly sums up the quality in a photograph that opens the eyes wide and that these photographs constitute the mental and visual counterpart of his music, marked by a complex melodic search and harmonies of rather […]
Andy’s exhibit “A Certain Strangeness” opened with tremendous success in Montpellier, France on February 6th. Watch this video to hear Andy discuss the installation and his love of photography. The entire video, which is mostly in French, can be seen here.
