The 4th Annual Alternative Guitar Summit at Alternative Guitar Summit at SubCulture: Arts Underground

The Alternative Guitar Summit, founded in 2010, is a yearly summit of daring, inventive players who emphasize new and unusual approaches to the guitar. The music we present celebrates the guitar's enormous range, beyond style or genre.

If you love improvisation, spontaneity, beautiful melodies, nasty funk, shockingly surreal soundscapes, wild abandon, righteous distortion, elliptical chords, dreamy sound clouds, and the joy of surprise, this festival is for you.

It's an amazing experience to see so many wizards at work in one place. There is no player alive who wouldn't learn something from this aggregation. Ecstatic moments will be in abundance all weekend long....

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The Alternative Guitar Summit, founded in 2010, is a yearly summit of daring, inventive players who emphasize new and unusual approaches to the guitar. The music we present celebrates the guitar's enormous range, beyond style or genre.

If you love improvisation, spontaneity, beautiful melodies, nasty funk, shockingly surreal soundscapes, wild abandon, righteous distortion, elliptical chords, dreamy sound clouds, and the joy of surprise, this festival is for you.

It's an amazing experience to see so many wizards at work in one place. There is no player alive who wouldn't learn something from this aggregation. Ecstatic moments will be in abundance all weekend long.

The Fourth Annual Alternative Guitar Summit is our most ambitious yet, and features a lineup that literally seems too good to be true.

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