How You Can Help

"I have chosen this independent path to share my music with you and the rest of the world because I'd rather not have corporations standing in between you and me and controlling our access to each other. It's a simple equation: take my music directly to you and people like you, by every and any means possible. That isn't always the easiest thing to do when the afore-mentioned corporations own the airwaves, the print media, and the shelves in the record stores!

And if you're reading this, you are willing to help, and I can't express how much that means to me. You are vital to keeping this grass-roots thing going, so I want to make it easy for you to help. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and the best marketing I could ask for - please don't keep me a secret!

Here are some ideas - click available links for details:

• Tell a friend, or ten. Spread the Word by Mouth, email, Facebook, your blog, etc. Whether you share a page or widget on Facebook, your iPod playlist at iTunes, or simply turn a friend on to a CD when they visit, it all helps spread my music to new listeners.
• At your favorite festival - suggest Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders for next year's lineup! (Yes you can email them that link :)
• Put Up Flyers for an upcoming local concert
• Write a customer review at Amazon.com, iTunes Store or CDBaby.com, or on your blog/website. Your comments and ratings might inspire others to listen! You can use this handy linkmaker page at CDBaby to make a graphic link for your blog or website so your visitors can buy the CD with one click.
• Host a Concert - it's easy to do. Or suggest a library program or school workshop to your local community.
• Request my music on Radio; whether it's your local community broadcast station, SiriusXM, or Pandora, Spotify or some other radio service with social sharing features
• CDs as Gifts - pretty well guaranteed to be a unique gift for the music lovers in your life.
• Donations always help keep the wheels turning and the music coming - thank you for considering that!

These are challenging times, and more than ever I take nothing for granted - most of all, the support of fans and friends. Without people to play the stereo or come to shows none of this would be possible.

It doesn't matter where you are; if there are 50 or 200 people in your local neighborhood or within an hour's drive, that would join you in coming out to a show, that's enough to make it worth our while to bring the tour bus to you.

Thank you for daring to care; to look for music that means something to you instead of something mindless filling space between commercials; for having the faith in me and my art to be supportive. I am blessed and lucky, and I could not do it without you. I promise to do my best to continue to make music that excites you, inspires you, heals you, or just plain rocks your body!"