Alternative Guitar Summit 2026 &
Don’t Forget Your Guitar Album Release Shows
Music from Joel Harrison's Don’t Forget Your Guitar and spontaneous collaborations.

Featuring:
Joel Harrison, Ben Monder, Anthony Pirog, Wendy Eisenberg, Tim Watson, Emmanuel Michael, Gregg Belisle-Chi, and Max Light

Guitarist Joel Harrison has “created a new blueprint for jazz” (New Orleans Times-Picayune). A Guggenheim Fellow (2010) Harrison is also a two-time winner of the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Competition and has appeared on DownBeat Magazine’s “Rising Star” poll.

As a shapeshifting composer, Joel writes for orchestra, string quartet, solo cello, and percussion as well. His ever-surprising body of work seamlessly connects multiple American traditions. Harrison’s music may be founded on jazz but veers into classical, rock, country, and all manner of American roots music. Succinctly described by the New York Times as “protean… brilliant,” he is also an active film composer, having worked on the Oscar-nominated Traffic Stop and the Sundance awardee Southern Comfort.

Harrison is the founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit, a yearly festival devoted to new and unusual guitar music. The festival has featured such artists as Fred Frith, Nels Cline, Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, and Pat Metheny, who has called the Summit “one of the most interesting and distinguished forums for guitar on the planet.”

$20 suggested -
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JOEL HARRISON Presents: ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT 2026

JOEL HARRISON Presents: ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT 2026