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• Biography
• One Paragraph Bio & Short Descriptions
• Music Reviewers - Hear the New CD
• Print-Quality Photos
• Reviews
• Music Samples from Andrew's 5 CDs
• Video Previews

Solo Concert Videos to Embed/Download
"Dancing in the Rain" youtube.com/watch?v=dzYyTA7Ake8
"Good Things Matter" youtube.com/watch?v=qNJoP21AFWg
"How High the Mountain" youtube.com/watch?v=I6XtaWiwRUY
"Crossroads Revisited" youtube.com/watch?v=xHCYmtfhUc4
Videos from 5-camera public television/radio broadcast with excellent sound.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HEAD: Award-Winning Shenandoah Valley Songwriter Andrew McKnight to Perform
SUBHEAD: Masterful Entertainer Casts His Spell with Music, Humor and Poetry

DATE/TIME:
PROGRAM: Concert featuring award-winning singer/songwriter, guitarist and storyteller Andrew McKnight
VENUE AND ADDRESS:
EVENT INFO:
ARTIST INFO: www.andrewmcknight.net Includes free streaming music and video plus high-resolution photos (at the Publicity Page).

Please email info at andrewmcknight.net or call 540/338-3233 for an interview or for additional information, and thank you for your time.

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THE STORY

Singer/songwriter, guitarist, poet and professional driver Andrew McKnight will make a local tour stop to share his engaging collection of songs and stories celebrating the American landscape and people.

Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, the award-winning folk and Americana artist's musical journey has traced nearly half a million miles of blue highways and small towns, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fan response for his five CDs and captivating performances.

Wherever McKnight takes the stage, audiences are at once spellbound and relaxed by his entertaining rural stories delivered with just the right touches of down home humor, causing one concertgoer to label him "equal parts Robert Frost, William Least Heat-Moon and Jeff Foxworthy!"

The Shenandoah Valley based performer often shares his talents for worthy causes, such as recent benefit performances for a community radio station in Massachusetts, an at-risk youth mentoring program in California, and several concerts in different cities for the Sierra Club's "Inner City Outings" program.

Recorded with longtime friend and original Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member Les Thompson, McKnight’s 2008 release Something Worth Standing For is a coherent and compelling musical portrait of contemporary America while drawing inspiration from legendary musicians like The Carter Family, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. Spanning haunting blues, feisty anthems, rustic folk, and a bit of swing, the CD's 16 cuts showcase McKnight painting many colors with his powerful voice ranging from a near whisper to full voice a cappella singing, his tasteful slide and flatpicked acoustic guitar, and the occasional rocking Americana electric guitar.

McKnight's song "Good Things Matter" is an audience favorite and a past Winner of the Great American Song Contest (Acoustic/Folk). His musical resume includes performances at the John F. Kennedy Center, Mountain Stage NewSong Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Chattanooga Riverbend Festival, and at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. His music is heard on hundreds of broadcast and internet radio programs around the world including many National Public Radio stations, XM Satellite, and the nationally syndicated shows "River City Folk" and "The Midnight Special".

In addition to his passion for community causes, he is a longtime advocate for preserving American landscapes and heritage, particularly at home at the foot of northwestern Virginia's Blue Ridge. Several of McKnight's songs are rooted in Appalachian history and culture, including the haunting Civil War ballad "The Road to Appomattox" and "Company Town", which leads off the 2004 compilation CD Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.

In between performing and recording, McKnight also teaches workshops on songwriting and the business of making music as well as a small group of private guitar students. He enjoys an artist endorsement with Elixir Strings.

For more including videos, music, essays and more: www.andrewmcknight.net

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