Andrew McKnight

This month is a big thank you for a LOT of things! Firstly, the performance calendar is getting busier thanks to some special folks on the email list, and grateful doesn't begin to cover it! 

But I'm grateful for so…

November 23, 2025

As I am seeing the news spreading today through the many circles of community that she connected, I'm deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend Maria De Los Angeles the night before last. I will…

For decades I've been envious of my NYC singer/songwriter friends who kept their weekly songwriters group meetings at Jack Hardy's apartment to compare notes, offer critiques and encourage each other. I've always wished I had a local songwriters circle to…

September 15, 2025

When Michelle and I were new parents, the year that our baby would turn 18 always seemed so far off.  "Someday," she would grow up and move into the next adventures in her life, but who could…

August 14, 2025

I made my "going away" dinner for the kid tonight - grilled sirloin tip steak with red wine mushroom sauce, some of the best white corn of the season, and green beans from our garden. Tomorrow it's…

July 22, 2005

Ozzy, wow. Just, wow. All afternoon my Facebook feed is full of tributes from his fellow musicians and mine too. Laments from people I grew up with, especially during our high school years. And interestingly, quite a…

June 6, 2025

That sure went by in a short speedy slide.

It is a beautiful and bittersweet ritual. The graduating seniors return to their elementary school replete in the transitional regalia of adulthood, to remember just how small they…

Many of you kind souls who follow my music know that for the past six years I've occasionally been honored to serve as songwriting staff for Music Therapy Retreats, using songwriting as a healing tool for our wounded warriors…

I spent my last day off for this tour out exploring eastern Connecticut's "Last Green Valley", a large portion of which was my childhood stomping grounds in Pachaug State Forest. People don't often believe me when I share stories about…

April 7, 2025

Those who know me know I'm a somewhat passionate hockey fan as well as occasional baseball enthusiast. Our hometown Washington Capitals brought our whole region tremendous joy when they won the ultimate prize in professional hockey in…

March 31, 2025

Last night was wonderful for a lot of reasons - most especially a lovely crowd! But I'm celebrating a mundane yet thrilling-to-me item too.

My Fender Stratocaster has been my go-to electric guitar since I was 15…

It's no secret that the usefulness of social media is in deep decay for things upon which we've grown to depend - primarily connection and interaction with other human beings. If you know most any type of creative person/business personally…

December 4, 2024.

It's been over a year now. 

During my shows for most of the last year since it happened last October, I've been sharing the story of the "Jane Doe" murder victim who had been buried in the…

Our humble little tree. Frankly, it's as much an investment in my own mental health as the nights get longer and the days get colder; the smell is divine aromatherapy along with the glitter and gleam of ornaments in the…

October 30, 2024

On this autumn night, nearly 15 years after his untimely passing, I'm finally finding whatever it takes to be able to sing one of my friend Keith Pitzer's songs. The tears still are hanging right on…

October 18, 2024

By now I've had some time to digest the horrific imagery from the catastrophic flooding in the southern Appalachians largely due to Hurricane Helene, as well as see the resilience and creativity of mountain communities. Last fall…

October 14, 2024

At long last, our familia has had to say our final farewell to La Gatita con Manchas (Cat with Patches). She showed up in our yard in the summer of 2006 hunting in our woodpiles and never…

August 31, 2024

Many of us who follow our calling in the performing arts are blessed with fans in many places who become friends. I met Chris Nicholson in the late 90s when he and his then toddler-age son Andrew…

It's been a lovely stretch of traveling since back in late April really, but a great deal of my late spring travels were right here in the Old Dominion, thanks to our Virginia Commission for the Arts and my touring…

April 16, 2024
This day 17 years ago dawned beautiful in Houston, the day after my final show of the weekend ready to start my four-day self scheduled/imposed writer's retreat out on the bluebonnet-carpeted meadows of central Texas. I was…