Rigby Summer // The Bent Brothers @ The Laughing Goat

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 2019, she finished production on her first full-length album “Geography” at Naptime Studio in Norman, Oklahoma, with Kyle Reid at the helm. She is currently seeking radio and tour promotion and hopes to release the record in early 2020.

The Bent Brothers:

After playing garage rock, punk, and metal music for over ten years in the Denver music scene, William and Charles Bent began playing folk and country in 2019. Inspired by artists like Colter Wall and Hank Williams, the Bent Brothers sing songs about the west and their family history in southern Colorado. Their album “Folk Songs & Murder Ballads” was released in November of 2019.