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Andrew McKnight to perform at Piedmont Sept. 16 (9-1-04) Environmental engineer-turned-songwriter Andrew McKnight will perform a Piedmont College "Early Bird" concert at 5 p.m., Sept. 16, at the campus in Demorest. The concert will be held in Brooks Hall in the Center for Worship and Music. Admission is free and everyone is invited. A high-energy crowd pleaser for audiences nationwide, McKnight is equal parts Shenandoah Valley storyteller and poet blended with the ever-present passions of the historian, geographer and naturalist. His music reflects an oral history built on the past while firmly rooted in the present. The National Theatre in Washington, D.C. said McKnight "blends wry and romantic stories with keen tuneful observations in a delicious mix of folk, blues and bluegrass... a man not to be missed!" McKnight lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Middleburg, Va., and a sense of those mountains, their peoples, and their history often pervades his words and musical stylings. He moves easily from the spirit of mountain religion in the blues-grass spiritual, "How High The Mountain" to the delicate simple beauty of old lovers waltzing under a "Shenandoah Moon." His wry insights, vocal richness and bluesy guitar have become distinctive trademarks. McKnight tours nationally as a full-time performer, and his resume includes performances at the Kennedy Center, Mountain Stage's NewSong Festival, Chattanooga's Riverbend Festival, and Baltimore's Artscape Festival. His environmental background and advocacy for the preservation of rural and historic America often color his characters' personal relationships with their changing landscape. -30- |
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