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Starting October 2021 you can now buy our CDs directly from us, online! Check out our store pages, where all of our CDs are available for purchase. We are currently in the process of setting up digital download sales as well. Watch this space for more information.

As independent artists, we rely on CD sales for our recording income. In the past, we have sold our CDs through CD Baby and Amazon. CD Baby is no longer offering CD sales from their site. Amazon does, but you might be surprised to learn (or not) that Amazon’s cut is very high, in some cases we have lost money selling through Amazon. Know that any sales that occur on this site go directly to us, no middlemen involved, with the exception of a small service charge for secure online payment processing. In the US, we will cover shipping charges as well. What a deal!

And of course, if you are a music streamer, you can always find our music on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon streaming, among others.

If you missed our featured set on Jon Stein’s Hootenanny Cafe on WGHT Radio on September 18, 2021, you can still listen online! The full show is available by following this link.

As of July 9, 2018, we have moved our website from our old domain name, gardenvariety.com. That name is going to new owners, and we wish them well. We’re excited to have a more descriptive name, gardenvarietymusic.com, as our new home on the web. As always, you can always find us on Facebook as well, at www.facebook.com/MikeCarleenMcCornack. We will be making more changes here in the days and weeks to come, especially as we finish up our new album, Dream True, which will be finished end of summer 2018. Watch this space for more details!

Welcome to gardenvarietymusic.com, the new home of Garden Variety Productions and Mike & Carleen McCornack! We are in the process of leaving our old home, gardenvariety.com, which is going to new users. Please bookmark the new site, and we look forward to more great music and great fun!

We had a wonderful time playing with Dale Bradley at the Drift Inn in Yachats, Oregon on June 24, 2017. Gretchen and the entire staff are always a pleasure to work with, and the crowds always seem to be in a good mood. This was especially true for this weekend, where the temperatures were in the high 70s and low 80s, with very little wind (this is the Oregon Coast?). We took our yellow lab Gracie with us, and she (and we) got to romp on the beach before the gig. It was a glorious weekend.

One of the special side benefits of the gig was a wonderful anonymous drawing we found in our tip jar at the end of the night. We would love to meet the artist some day! We thought it was a pretty good likeness of the band.