Welcome to our family website and the platform for our book of memoirs! We’re Christopher Burnett + Terri Anderson Burnett and we have been a family since March of 1979. We’re both lifelong professional musicians, entrepreneurs, and educators based out of the Kansas City metropolitan area. See BurnettMusic.biz
Home
There is a common saying: “Home is where the heart is.” Over our many decades together as a family we’ve found this saying to be true of each of the homes we’ve made together around the world.
No matter where we are.
Together we are home.
About
INTRODUCTION: Christopher and Terri (Anderson) Burnett established their branch of The Burnett Family in March of 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark while serving in Germany with the US military band based at Ansbach then. They are both still active professional musicians, educators, and entrepreneurs based in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Visit our timeline at BurnettPublishing.com
Book of Memoirs
Welcome to excerpts from our book of memoirs and articles on many topics encountered during our life’s journey together and written over many decades. These blog posts are complete thoughts but are only portions of complete articles and chapters of our book.
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Click the individual post titles listed below.
First Post of 2026
Musings In Cb: “You have an entrepreneurial spirit” Most of my school age years were growing up in a small town in Miami County Kansas where my mother Violet Lorraine Jackson Burnett’s family originates. Paola is the county seat and is about 20 minutes south of Olathe where I was actually born and that’s also …
2025 was a very good year…
ABOUT OUR HIGHLIGHTS: As professional musicians, we find that we are inherently doing pretty cool things most days. And when we add the cool things that we do as a family, there’s more. We chose one item for each month and that was very difficult to do for most of the 12 months. January 2025 …
Vi’s 100th Birthday Year
This month marks the centennial birthday year of my mother Violet Lorraine Jackson Burnett (1924-2012). That’s mom standing on the right in the Polaroid of us on our porch in the series of pictures that were taken by Terri’s parents at our home in Missouri in the spring of 1989. Mom is 65 years old …
Contact
We’re on Facebook. It’s best to contact us through social networks to reconnect or chat. We get inundated with emails and receive hundreds daily so we’re not timely with responses. We still keep a landline phone that screens business inquiries and contact from people who don’t have our mobile numbers. It has voicemail.
Office: (913) 250-5141