The very embodiment of the American maverick, Joel Harrison has demonstrated over the years that he is a man of extraordinarily wide-ranging cultural interests, unconventional in every sense of the word. In 2011, he founded the Alternative Guitar Summit, which he continues to direct. The organization encompasses an annual festival, a summer educational program that, since 2017, has brought guitarists from around the world to Big Indian, New York, for a truly international gathering of players of widely varying backgrounds and reputations (to name just a few: Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Miles Okazaki, Elliott Sharp, Brandon Ross, Liberty Ellman, Rez Abbasi, Joe Morris, Marco Cappelli, Anthony Pirog, and many others), as well as masterclasses and concerts throughout the year and an independent record label, AGS Recordings. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, Harrison has established himself over a career spanning more than three […]
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