Andrew McKnight

Happy New Year & Happy 2020!

I hope that your holidays have been joyous and warm, with plenty of real face time with people you love. I'm hedging my bets - I'll call this a new decade because of flipping two numbers instead of the typical one, but I'll celebrate the end of the decade again next New Year's so the bases are covered.

Along with a lovely array of gifts and a less lovely nuisance of a head cold, Santa also showed up with a couple hundred CDs of Treasures in My Chest. So we've now got our Bandcamp store set up to buy downloads or discs, and preorder the book at the same time if you like. More about that below, and many thanks to those who've already splurged and are enjoying the album ahead of its actual release date. I'm especially gratified that it's been so well-received by some of the people who matter most - the kindly folks who have been interested in my work and allow me to keep in touch. You getting this E-Zine once a month make all the other things in my crazy creative life possible!

I hit the road for some school workshops and concerts along the south Atlantic coast this month, and teach some writing workshops for school students next month. The big concert release events happen in March, but meanwhile we have two stubborn holes on the road to Texas - Thurs March 12th anyplace between Tuscaloosa AL and the Mississippi Coast, and Fri March 13th most anyplace between Baton Rouge and Houston. A house concert for 20 people would be far better than a night flipping channels in a chain motel, and a lot more fun for everybody involved. If you know something, say something - all reasonable possibilities gladly and gratefully considered.

And with that, on to the business of deciding whether it's a new decade, a New Year or a new adventure. May there be multiple answers!