Can I Get My Mitts on Some of That?

I'm sure we're all sort of trying to imagine what a day in Mitt Romney's life would be like. (If you missed it, his annual income works out to about $50,000 a day, give or take a few.) I'm not one to begrudge anyone's success, and I suppose we should have a national conversation about how good the tax rules in question are, but I quickly got to thinking about a different perspective. If I had just one "Mitt Day" a year, I would pay my bills for the year and maybe even leave a little something for Madeleine's college aspirations and/or my sorely-unfunded retirement account!

So I got a crazy idea - what if over the course of, say a week, I DID have one "Mitt day"? Not sitting back and watching the money roll in like magic, but instead over those seven days booking enough concerts, library programs, school and enrichment workshops, church services, and who-knows-what-else over the next 12 months to add up to $50,000 for doing what I love to do.

So here it is - I welcome any and all help putting that together, pretty much anywhere in the country is fair game, as long as we can "connect the dots" to make it feasible. Next week, from Feb. 1 - 8, if you'd like to help me meet that goal by helping me connect with a concert, school or library in your neighborhood, email us at booking@andrewmcknight.net and let's see what we can do.

To explore our current offerings, check out http://www.andrewmcknight.net/programs. If you seek something in particular, email us with your idea and let's see what we can put together. Maybe this is the year you try hosting or helping arrange a house concert - they are easy and fun. If you'd like something official to introduce my work to your local festival, library or school, the presskit page is my "resume" (there are quite a few performance videos, perhaps the most effective introduction of all). Presenters in Virginia may be able to get some fee reimbursement through the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

At the least, it will be a fun way to fill some of my schedule and maybe even free up some time to finish these dozen or more new songs that have been percolating. So thanks for helping me get my mitts on a little of that! (But I'll pass on all the staff, 5 houses, limos and all that thanks - I couldn't begin to keep track of that!)