Eric Sommer

Singer/songwriter Eric Sommer has an amazingly diverse catalog and a résumé that reads more like a musical adventure novel than a series of career bullet points. Sommer emerged from the Boston music scene in the ’80s with a vengeance, a Folk Singer and Songwriter with a percussive, open-tuning style adapted from the likes of David Bromberg, Steve Howe, Townes Van Zandt and Brit Folk legend Davy Graham.  Sommer eventually relocated to Europe where he joined tours with Bram Tchaikovsky, Wreckless Eric and Nick Lowe, calling Denmark and the Netherlands home for three years. Eric returned to the US to form a trio called The Atomics. The Atomics toured with the Dead Kennedys, Mission of Burma, and Gang of Four and became one of Boston’s best local New Wave outfits.

As a soloist he has opened for Old 97’s, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, Bluegrass icon Jerry Douglas, Mates of State, Dr. John, Leon Redbone and Built to Spill... just too many to name.