Chris Knight / Matt Woods at The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI
Schedule
Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Ark - Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI
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Chris Knight Acoustic Showwith special guest Matt Woods
Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:00 PM • $25.00–$35.00 • all ages
The Ark
316 S. Main Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 761-1818
https://theark.org
After 28 years as a recording artist, singer-songwriter Chris Knight remains boldly empowered to make music that always delivers the unflinching truth. In fact, the man raised in Slaughters, Kentucky uses a simple, direct barometer to regularly check his muse: “If I can’t believe myself, I won’t sing the song.”
What Knight writes about is what he knows. He was raised in mining country, so it’s no surprise that he would earn a degree in agriculture from Western Kentucky University and then work as a mine reclamation inspector and then miner’s consultant. But eventually his passion for writing songs and playing guitar, both inspired by his musical hero, the late John Prine, led him to chronicle his surroundings in words and music.
“I came from a big family and grew up in the woods six miles from two small towns, so there were a lot of stories,” he says. “There were always a lot of ideas to write about.”
It’s no wonder that Knight has single-handedly scraped a reputation as one of America’s most uncompromising and respected singer-songwriters through 23 years and nine studio albums. He’s done this minus fanfare and artifice. The native son of Slaughters, Kentucky (population: 238) only sings songs he believes. He also speaks only when he has a potent message.
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