Andrew McKnight

Next up: a rare band livestream concert, Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders Sat. Feb. 21st, 7pm EST presented by Focus Music. Tickets are $15 to watch the livestream in realtime - get yours now for a very fun evening!

The…

We're starting early this year because we always seem to start late every year! No need to wait til “Small Business Tuesday” or whatever other moniker the capitalist infrastructure invents to dress up their hunger for seasonal profits. This small…

November 10, 2025

This Veterans Day 2025 will be special for ten veterans who participated in Music Therapy Retreats (MTR) this year. 

MTR helps veterans and trauma survivors find healing through the power of music therapy at retreats across the…

November 3, 2025

To my followers who are also Spotify users, I'm pulling all of my music from that particular platform by the end of November, and I thought you might want to know why my music disappeared.

It's no…

October 25, 2025

Long ago Andrew was a young environmental engineer working at an employee-owned global consulting firm CH2M HILL. By the end of 1996 Andrew found himself pulled in two directions, as an emerging artist and an engineer, and…

Thanks to the Media Department at the Handley Regional Library in the historic downtown of Winchester VA, we were able to livestream Andrew's hourlong A Little Noon Music performance on October 10, 2025 to their Facebook account. We invite you…

We are thrilled to receive notice that for the 17th consecutive year, the Virginia Commission for the Arts has awarded Andrew a Touring Assistance Grant and a place in their prestigious touring artist directory. The VCA's mission is to help…

My veteran co-writer from this past weekend's Music Therapy Retreats in North Carolina has kindly allowed me to share his song, so his far-flung family can hear it too. And as leaders do, he stepped forward for his fellow wounded…

March 17, 2025

As he has for the past several Januaries, Andrew led a series of free songwriting workshops for any interested middle and high school students in Frederick County, Maryland as part of the Chords of Courage Step Up…

Veteran's Day 2024

As we honor and celebrate those who've stood in harm's way on our behalf today, I'd love to highlight a great program that uses songwriting as a tool to help our vets healing the less-visible wounds and…

Over the years since their 2008 debut at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Andrew and Beyond Borders bandmates Lisa Taylor, Stephanie Thompson and founding Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member Les Thompson have co-written and performed several…

Despite the near 100° temperatures, this year's Mountville Folk Festival in Aldie VA was off the charts for great music and a fabulous audience. And in spite of bandmate Les Thompson's instruments being sidelined while recovering from shoulder surgery, he…

New from the Media Room - an hour plus long career retrospective and conversation about upcoming projects, as well as plenty of music, in the March 28th episode of "Living on Music with Steve Houk" podcast. Andrew says of his…

These are definitely some of the most challenging times many of us artists have faced. I have always been able to “read the tea leaves” sufficiently to plan my own individual course over the coming 1 to 3 years. Along…

 It's been nine years since we finished the filming and had the premiere event for our mini-documentary “Sound of Home”. The film follows luthier Martin Fair at Fairbuilt Guitar Company through designing and building a custom guitar…

Since we got a lot of great footage from Andrew's November 1st concert at Franklin Park Arts Center (Purcellville VA), we have been trickling out single song videos on our YouTube and Facebook most Mondays with hashtag #MusicalMondays. Here's some…

The second of Andrew's pandemic projects is nearly done; the mini-rockumentary “Rock Time in Your Town” about the final show of his original hard rock quartet Nor'easter back in 1987. The film editing was essentially finished for a couple of…

Andrew returned to his hometown theater, the Franklin Park Arts Center in Purcellville VA, for a solo concert November 1st, 2023 with a very special guest in tow. His now 16-year old fiddling daughter Madeleine joined him for several songs…

From Andrew's Facebook post, August 5, 2023

"I HAVE to out my little sister's pandemic project because it's just too good not to share! Of course we come from the same musical family, although our particular backgrounds and pathways are…

Andrew and his fiddling daughter Madi, plus several bandmates and friends, gathered on the front porch on Saturday August 26th to participate in the global grassroots phenomena known as “Play Music on the Porch Day.” Since they livestreamed it to…