East coast singer-songwriter to perform in Marysville

A singer/songwriter from Virginia, Andrew McKnight returns to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in four years and he will appear at Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1607 Fourth St., Marysville, beginning at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 10, a benefit for Marysville Food Bank & EUUF.

May 6, 2008 4:20 pm

A singer/songwriter from Virginia, Andrew McKnight returns to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in four years and he will appear at Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1607 Fourth St., Marysville, beginning at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 10, a benefit for Marysville Food Bank & EUUF.

McKnight is joined on this West Coast tour by Sean Kelly on upright bass and harmony vocals. A virtuoso bassist hailing from Denver, Colorado, Kelly’s credits include a regular seat in the Boulder Philharmonic along with recording and performing with some of the best independent American singer/songwriters, like Annie Gallup, johnsmith and John William Davis as well as touring with McKnight several times each year.

McKnight and Kelly will be at Egan’s Ballard Jam House, 1707 NW Market St., in Seattle Friday, May 9 at 9 p.m. (For information call 206/789-1621 or see the Web site at www.ballardjamhouse.com.)

A guitar player who records with Falling Mountain McKnight is launching his new CD, “Something Worth Standing For.” He is also leading a special music service at the Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Tacoma Sunday morning, May 11 and will pay a visit to KBCS 91.3 FM at 1 p.m. May 9 for a live performance and interview on “Lunch With Folks.”

He will lead two workshops on songwriting and the music business at Dusty Strings Acoustic Music Shop, 3406 Fremont Ave. N. in Seattle Saturday, May 10:

• 10:30 a.m. — The Successful Artist: Building the Business of Creativity.

• 1:30 p.m. — “Help! I Keep Using the Same Four Chords and I Can’t Get Up!”

For information about the workshops call 206-634-1662 or 866/634-1662 or see the Web site at www.dustystrings.com.

Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, McKnight has trapsed across half a million miles of blue highways and small towns nationwide earning a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fan response for his five CDs and captivating performances.

McKnight offers entertaining 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!”

For information about the Marysille performance call 360-659-6621 or see the Web site at www.evergreenuu.org

To hear music previews, see concert videos and more, visit www.andrewmcknight.net.