Andy Summer to kick off summer tour at the Commuinty Theatre in Fairfield on May 30th. See tour dates below. Tickets are on sale now via shucommunitytheatre.org
Legendary guitar virtuoso, Rock Hall of Fame Inductee, and multiple Grammy®-winning artist, Andy Summers, continues his North American run with The Cracked Lens + A Missing String theatre tour this summer beginning May 30 in Fairfield, Connecticut – routing below. Summers began visiting intimate theatres in 2023 incorporating his collective works into an insightful evening spanning his career where plays guitar and improvises to several sequences of his photography shot worldwide, reads excerpts from his book of short stories Fretted and Moaning, shares insights on his music and photography, including his most recent photography book A Series of Glances, and performs selections from his extensive solo catalog. “I’m thrilled to be going out with his show again,” says Summers – “let the light shine… after all we went through.” For more information click here.
Andy Summers is a celebrated guitarist, composer, photographer, documentarian, author, and member of one of the most influential and acclaimed acts in musical history, The Police. With a catalog that has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and spawned multiple chart toppers including “Message in a Bottle,” “Every Breath You Take,” “Can’t Stand Losing You,” “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic,” just to name a few, as well as four of their five studio albums making Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, The Police continue to be one of the most celebrated acts in music history. Summers is a five-time Grammy® winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and has spent the past four decades performing live to audiences across the globe. Summers has released multiple solo projects in recent years as well as collaborations with John Etheridge, Robert Fripp, Fernanda Takai, Ben Verdery, and Victor Biglione. In 2007, The Police reunited for a 14-month global tour becoming the third highest-grossing tour at the time.
In recent years Summers has become a noted author including the 2006 release of his memoir, OneTrain Later(St. Martin’s Publishing Group), the inspiration for his 2012 documentary film, Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police, and his first work of fiction released in 2021, Fretted and Moaning: Short Stories (Rocket 88). Summers has found considerable success as a noted photographer with more than 60 worldwide exhibitions to date including Leica Gallery in Los Angeles, Paris/LA Independent Photo Show, and Kunst; Licht Photo Art Gallery in Shanghai; Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, France; and the Boneffanten Museum in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Summer tour dates
Thursday, May 30 Sacred Heart Community Theatre Fairfield, CT
Saturday, June 1 Newton Theatre Newton, NJ
Sunday, June 2 The Kate Old Saybrook, CT
Tuesday, June 4 Shalin Liu Performance Center Rockport, MA
Wednesday, June 5 Cary Hall Lexington, MA
Thursday, June 6 Jane Pickens Theatre Newport, RI
Saturday, June 8 Waldo Theatre Waldo, ME
Sunday, June 9 Nashua Center for the Arts Nashua, NH
Wednesday, June 12 Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY
Thursday, June 13 Sellersville Theater Sellersville, PA
Saturday, June 15 Miracle Theatre Washington, DC
Sunday, June 16 Jefferson Theatre Charlottesville, VA
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