tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69132161547665923982024-02-19T01:21:01.624-08:00...In EdgewiseBrian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-34341833580176511222023-10-31T21:14:00.000-07:002023-10-31T21:14:47.711-07:00QTNews: Harvest Between the Veils<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMD9I4ZPhJxSCXl7f_yLJ4GPsAv8QAymIY-szwm0O9wsfIri2-msi2jPvBqJo8gnrZ5ge9jpPdW0R42irhAAGwXgRjjwo1E3cNdfJfcGhyjtYsUaNZVfNoBDDa4TwJ3sof3szSw1eoQkew35nEhkY2r_Blj0Zd6Tj4tfrrOpFwimNRvkSXJLHwnZoNhBJ/s1934/new%20books%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1410" data-original-width="1934" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMD9I4ZPhJxSCXl7f_yLJ4GPsAv8QAymIY-szwm0O9wsfIri2-msi2jPvBqJo8gnrZ5ge9jpPdW0R42irhAAGwXgRjjwo1E3cNdfJfcGhyjtYsUaNZVfNoBDDa4TwJ3sof3szSw1eoQkew35nEhkY2r_Blj0Zd6Tj4tfrrOpFwimNRvkSXJLHwnZoNhBJ/w400-h291/new%20books%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Howdy and Boo to you!</span></p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Here we are <span class="" style="font-size: 17px;">– </span>somehow already perched between the veils in the Samhain time of the year where it’s All Hallow’s Eve. The harvest is in and the dark season begins, meteor leaves are falling and the first blasts of cold come wheezing in – but wasn’t it just berry-picking August last week? Time is a funny construct indeed and another one of those things made up by someone, like maps, calendars, money, laws, political parties and race. It is all made up, ostensibly to serve a purpose, but not always the highest-minded purpose we are capable of. Some of these things even betray our basic humanity so hearts hurt and suffer because of them. If those things can all be made up by humans and eventually accepted, I’d say it’s high time we got to work making up other possible futures we can believe in to include and celebrate ALL the parts. Perched between the veils we are indeed…</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">After two eclipses in a month, annular and a lunar, and a whole lotta shakin going on, it’s been difficult to focus on present time with all the rage and terror surrounding. Where I come from, life is sacred in all forms and with dear friends in the line of fire there, heart is filled with trepidation here. Still I feel it’s important to continue to raise these collective voices, push the art pedal to the floor and bust through the prevailing cognitive dissonance and ridiculuum that surrounds. Art saves lives everyday and is needed more than ever now. Artificial Intelligence (if that’s what you want to call it) can never replace real heart connection work. I don’t have any answers to the world’s biggest questions, but I believe the work I do is the best I have to offer.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">This year I released <a class="" href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/merch/logodaidalia"><b class="">Logodaidalia</b></a>, a new book of bedtime stories to read when you wake in the morning. The book’s dreamtime metafable language encourages us to stay with our dreams a bit longer upon awakening instead of jumping out of bed to begin the day. The 52 stories are a full deck of liquid, playful narratives that zig and zog, and sound great read out loud. Click on the blue title above to order your copy online through my Bandcamp portal. Not buying online? Reply to this email for orders with me directly. See the beautiful cover created by San Marcos artist Nick Mackee below. </div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Another new book I'm honoured to be a part of this year is an anthology just published by Tsunami Press called <a class="" href="https://www.tsunamibooks.org/shop/pre-order-tsunami-press-first-anthology"><b class="">Bookstore Clerks and Significant Others</b></a><b class="">.</b> Two imaginative stories I wrote not in Logodaidalia are included and the book hits the street this week. Its online ordering portal is instantly available by clicking on the blue title above. Last year Tsunami published Ken Babbs’ <b class="">Cronies</b>, a true Merry Prankster memoir-burlesque by Intrepid Traveler himself. Babbs has been there from the beginning of the Prankster adventures. </div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Tsunami Press follows that book with this collection of 28 wild-mind writers from many backgrounds. I am pickled tink to be included and I can’t wait to read the whole thing.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Books ship free to anywhere in the US and if you live around these here parts, you can pick up a copy of either book in person at Tsunami Books in Eugene. Logodaidalia is also available locally at Sundance Natural Foods. Buy extra copies for your bookloving friends. They will thank you most heartily.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">A toast to the emerging season! </div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Heartpeace and deep breathing to still the rampaging being I wish you all.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">You corn forest pundit,</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">bq <br /></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-68582182112939401282023-06-21T17:53:00.002-07:002023-06-21T17:55:01.492-07:00QTN Summer News: OCF, Logodaidalia, gigs and hilarity!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Howdeee folks!</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Here we are mere hours away from the longest day of the year and the season is sweetly turning even as Texas is already in the 100s and Oregon is not even 70 today and the rain gushed forth in fifths and sixths. I’m just returning from this year’s Kerrville Folk Festival filled to the brim, Jim, with inspiration, songs and after spending golden time with brilliant beings, new and old and many excellent songwriters. Living in a tent for a month changes everything I’ma tell you whut.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">There are a couple sections here of news to cover</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>A. New Logodaidalia Book</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>B. Upcoming concerts</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>C. Oregon Country Fair</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>A. New Logodaidalia Book</u></b> – I am here to tell you this summer is looking busy with gigs and fun but the big news is the QTN book, Logodaidalia. It has just been released and is available for mail order or local delivery now. It’s a book of bedtime stories for when you get up in the morning, and I’ve heard many rave reviews already. I did a reading at Kerrville for the annual Road Dog Literary Society and folks really dug it there. Copies are $15 each postage paid. Reply to this email with your address and either use Paypal and send as a friend payment at (<a href="http://paypal.me/BQTN">paypal.me/BQTN</a>) or feel free to send an old fashioned check. Here’s the gorgeous cover:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Ak2IGYjCSlfMiOwu2Dk3FuNS5kD5iUWEeXQn9GRFkduadrWGRP5qXuhV_2EuphlTZwhYqI6sPGmLpQYvZsn7ZWbPHdbkGkaDulhGgrl6_y5YPkiynD2QrVqIuZuTPgJWQd-wyFTU5E1l2-nyjG1Gb4K0IY4u-jqXkbki3KopwG5vHwaEqUFgVCCnRh7G/s1312/Logodaidalia%20cover%20for%20email.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="846" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Ak2IGYjCSlfMiOwu2Dk3FuNS5kD5iUWEeXQn9GRFkduadrWGRP5qXuhV_2EuphlTZwhYqI6sPGmLpQYvZsn7ZWbPHdbkGkaDulhGgrl6_y5YPkiynD2QrVqIuZuTPgJWQd-wyFTU5E1l2-nyjG1Gb4K0IY4u-jqXkbki3KopwG5vHwaEqUFgVCCnRh7G/w258-h400/Logodaidalia%20cover%20for%20email.jpg" width="258" /></a></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>B. Upcoming QTN concerts</u></b> – Here is a rundown of what’s coming soon in the Willamette Valley of Oregon:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>• Sunday, July 2, Matt the Electrician from Austin at Tsunami Books with QTN opening</b>– Tickets $21 on sale now at the store or call 541.345.8986 to reserve. Order from Tsunami's website <a href="https://tsunamibooks.org/events-calendar/2023/matt-brian/">here</a>.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>• Saturday June 24, QTN Wordless Guitar at 16 Tons, </b><span style="text-align: center;">2864 Willamette St. 6-8 pm </span><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial Black';">in the South Eugene</span><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial Black';"> plaza </span>with Market of Choice. All ages are welcome – it’s free!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>• Every other Monday QTN Wordless Guitar</b>, July 3, 17 etc before bingo at Sam Bond’s Garage, 6:30-8:30 free for all ages.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>••• JULY 7-9 ~ OREGON COUNTRY FAIR •••</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I’ll be playing OCF again for my 35th year accompanied by the luminous<b> QTN Band </b>this year featuring<b> </b>Jason Montgomery on bass, Michelle Alany on violin, Courtney von Drehle on accordion, Andrew Alikhanov on clarinet and Simon Lucas on drums and percussives. See the whole weekend’s line up and read all about it in this year’s Peach Pit <a href="https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/peachpit/">here</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">QTN stage sets (others possible and guests likely):</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Friday, July 7 – 1:40 pm – Blue Moon </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Saturday, July 8 – 1:40 pm – Hoarse Chorale</b></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">More on other July gigs including the annual Post OCF Scobert Park Picnic and Applegate Folk Festival and others coming soon! Stay tuned!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Your corn forest pundit,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">bq</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaBWW5t3bJ5jPqvtmNF6Wcy3ZFkD1dMJ_XnZ308PYA1XuRQVjq11i3MPcszUdkidETXel6PY05HFfAZojzw8STV21AKSPGSHV0P3-GwVmHAP6H_xrXLJBLqmZNxDHg1-OaWf6EQ9UShSpFWWhEHfV5mZB_l8fB6a1ZH8naZCVwH8JzPRcn5WVOqvh0C38/s2048/OCF%2023*.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaBWW5t3bJ5jPqvtmNF6Wcy3ZFkD1dMJ_XnZ308PYA1XuRQVjq11i3MPcszUdkidETXel6PY05HFfAZojzw8STV21AKSPGSHV0P3-GwVmHAP6H_xrXLJBLqmZNxDHg1-OaWf6EQ9UShSpFWWhEHfV5mZB_l8fB6a1ZH8naZCVwH8JzPRcn5WVOqvh0C38/w400-h400/OCF%2023*.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-67489617442817786012023-03-20T16:04:00.004-07:002023-03-20T16:05:46.304-07:00QTN Springing Forth in FIfths with shows in the Willamette Valley and slightly south<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT38wogxENU1lIy2vqXoAiCnw_WKdkw4Bf0l2zzJ614_p-QThNQoYXbE_Qkuk02IuW91MlDW-Lp-gTZ67xsEErBHzUdWZEUB3_9W8LvsYPpHmbLBpYLtr4FWJlttom1Rd2TFKmrBkgB0IDaqEjIteiWeuHS-DdWoVWUU8vhalnqXajKQG4r4KplQcfLQ/s1650/3%20legged%20april%20fools.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT38wogxENU1lIy2vqXoAiCnw_WKdkw4Bf0l2zzJ614_p-QThNQoYXbE_Qkuk02IuW91MlDW-Lp-gTZ67xsEErBHzUdWZEUB3_9W8LvsYPpHmbLBpYLtr4FWJlttom1Rd2TFKmrBkgB0IDaqEjIteiWeuHS-DdWoVWUU8vhalnqXajKQG4r4KplQcfLQ/w309-h400/3%20legged%20april%20fools.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Hello to you all in these swiftly tilting of the axis times!</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Even though it’s becoming warmer around here and the Boing of Spring is nearly here in the Northern Hemisphere that sure feels good, and even though nearly a third of the year has already slipped by, and the trillium in my yard have just poked their green heads out of the ground (always a good sign) and even though I’m not sure which winter projects will see the light of day in this Water Rabbit Year, thanks to the encouragement of many folks, I'm finally getting around to celebrate my newest recording with live performance in several places around the south Willamette Valley this month and next. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><br /></div><div>And even though many folks don’t look at their email much anymore or have CD players or record players or ipods, and even though I am not a big fan of Spotify or other digital platforms that are not big fans of supporting artists who make music, this new disc is available as both a physical CD and streamable and downloadable through my <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp page</a> It is called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>OsculEARiosophy</b> (it really is not difficult to say) and there are many other recorded delights there too.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">QTN LIVE IN MARCH AND APRIL <br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>• WORDLESS GUITAR ALTERNATING MONDAYS IN MARCH AND APRIL AT SAM BOND’S GARAGE, 6:30 pm</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–
</span></span></b><span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;">Sam Bond’s is continuing its long tradition of Monday night pre-bingo
music that Richard Crandell began and played for nearly a quarter of a
century. Since he isn’t around to play live anymore, I get to play
Wordless Guitar alternating weeks with the piano music of Ty Connor.
This will be my first week, MARCH 20, on the day of the Vernal Boing.
There is no cover and all ages are welcome. We gonna have fun.</span></span></span></div><div><b><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;"> </span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;"> </span></span>• MARCH 25 and 26, THE 46th ANNUAL SPRING FLING, Roseburg Oregon, 2 pm sets both days</b>. Other musical guests throughout the weekend include Alice DiMicele, Jack Fallsrock and Friends, Elizabeth Cable and others. The Spring Fair is held in Douglas Hall at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. (I-5 exit 123). Fair hours are Friday 1-6, Saturday 10-8, Sunday 11-5 and there will be artisan crafts, delicious food, live music and community! Admission is $3 and everyone is welcome.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>• SATURDAY APRIL 1, THE 3 LEGGED CRANE PUB AND BREWHOUSE, 48329 E First St, Oakridge, OR 97463, 7 pm –</b> It will be an All Fool’s Songwriting Evening in the Round with me, Peter Wilde and Tom Hughes swapping tunes. We all go back a long ways and this is going to be some big fun indeed. On the venue's website it says “All ages always welcome” and their <a href="https://3leggedcrane.com/vittles">menu</a> features plenty of tasty choices for kids and biggerfolk too and is huge and incredible! There is no cover. See the cool poster below.</div><div><br /></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b>• FRIDAY APRIL 14, BRIAN QTN AT ALLUVIUM, EUGENE, </b><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">810 W. 3rd Ave., 7:30 pm</b><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– A hometown concert in a sweet community venue to celebrate OsculEARiosophy and stretch out for a longer set of new and older songs and beyond. Special guests areAmy Danziger (of Mood Area 52) accompanying me on cello and playing solo! and the one and only Peter Wilde (!!!).The poster for this one is coming soon.</span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;">All for now. It’s getting light later as the days are lengthening </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">at last. The sound of photosynthesis is everywhere and always has been even way before there was an album by that name. Breathe deep this incredible place we call home. Even though the challenges and vexations are many, the only thing to atmosphere is sphere itself.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a;">Your corn forest pundit,</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">bq<br /></span></span></div></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-58576380336373147662022-12-18T00:38:00.004-08:002022-12-18T00:40:11.844-08:00QTN Wintry Whirling Wonder-Wanderings<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxL3Fyke2w8icYi8M7UUFXad5FmlSLfojtmib8yUz-bfORXNmOik7k92h_FcKl77x5X7qnaI5wBrUJbmhvneX2A_ASn2j6GQZnFQEvqvyUe71EUplLPYtybk9UzuF4O4EDpt5WuBH4ttYUuPLiOLL17kHxKssgDAlIU2vq1_NEvwJ7nMwdhgHbw2DPvQ/s2789/Q%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2073" data-original-width="2789" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxL3Fyke2w8icYi8M7UUFXad5FmlSLfojtmib8yUz-bfORXNmOik7k92h_FcKl77x5X7qnaI5wBrUJbmhvneX2A_ASn2j6GQZnFQEvqvyUe71EUplLPYtybk9UzuF4O4EDpt5WuBH4ttYUuPLiOLL17kHxKssgDAlIU2vq1_NEvwJ7nMwdhgHbw2DPvQ/w400-h297/Q%202019.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Sally Bogardus<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Greets of the Season of the Long Night!</span></b></span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">This latest musing finally got typed. Complicated thoughts for a complicated year. There are 3 newsy parts here, but first – announcing a Eugene, Oregon gig I haven’t played in person since The Pause. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">It’s the return of </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/709785360744793">QTN’s WORDLESS SOLSTICE</a></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-size: large;"><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21, 7 pm</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-size: large;"><b>TSUNAMI BOOKS, 2585 WILLAMETTE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b><span style="font-size: 20px;">A live river of guitar music, </span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b style="font-size: 20px;">candlelight, community, </b></span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20px;">space and focus </b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20px;">to embrace the longest night</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">with no holiday hoopla</b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20px;">Bring a friend, a candle and your ears.</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>A. 2022 extrapolations in review</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>B. Newly released recordings</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>C. </b><b>Continuumusing – again!</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>A.</b> Another spin around the wheel, another year draws to a close. Another opportunity to leave old ways behind and to welcome the new with open receiving arms. The new chops and experiences, new ways of dealing with old patterns and situations appear suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere. Once a pattern is recognized, the option to participate – or not – is clear. Once volitional consciousness discerns what is significant, choices are weighed and made.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">And so the inward and the outward (as well as the toward) collide with one another, change each the other and, as it is outside, so it becomes inside. A look around the metaphorsphorescence and careening impossible of the worldsphere reveals the too much of it all, so stepping into silence is a river and a pulsing sinewave. A quieting of the chaotic rampage of elephant monkey donkey trickster mind patterns while listening and being still is a rrrrrr-evolutionary act; not indolence but a useful tool.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">What kind of newsletter is this and what the hell am I going on about here? It’s another part of the music that surgemerges through and this has been a year the likes of which we’ve never seen the like of (just like every year has been previously for a bunch of em in this century). Living with uncertainty is a certain solace, and watching traditional forms dissolve around us and becoming new forms is revealing and a deeper kind of green yes we’ve barely had time to explore and celebrate, like dwellers on the threshold beckoning and becoming. It is what we are here to do the best however we can.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>B.</b> Much of the last few years of pause I’ve had the opportunity to do the best I can by bringing songs I make and play and others' songs and sounds together into tangible form. The Pause time without live presentations has felt impossible at different times for many and the challenges of living and the constant river of change (along with cherished others leaving life) can make present time difficult. Still I am thankful that some projects I've long wanted to bring to completion (after years of only being home maybe three weeks at a time) have finally been made 3D. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">These days, <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> is the closest thing I have to a website (my other site was last updated about 2012). You can stream whole albums, download them or send for physical CDs. I’ve posted many odd downloadable sonic relics there too that will never be made into CDs. Music is a thoughtful giving to share and CDs still make great gifts. Click on the blue links in this letter to listen in and take a ride in the earbuds. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Al Grierson, The Petals</b> – In 2020, I made a CD of Al Grierson’s uncollected songs, a project Anne Feeney and I talked of doing for years. Al died 20 years ago, swept into Texas floodwaters after a gig, but he made two fine albums while he was alive. Now there is a third and I think he would like it too. Listen to <a href="https://algrierson.bandcamp.com/album/the-petals">The Petals </a><a href="https://algrierson.bandcamp.com/album/the-petals">here</a> and if you only listen to one song, play the title track. You’ll likely listen to the rest after that. Download or order the album there. All the $ goes directly to his daughters and there are still a few physical copies available too. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Richard Crandell, Lost Legacy</b> – This summer, as my musician friend Richard Crandell was in his last days on Earth, his dream album of piano originals, Lost Legacy, was delivered to the hospital. A master musician, Richard made his first guitar record in 1980. He played jazz and salsa piano in many combos too. After six guitar albums, his hands could no longer play due to his Essential Tremor. He then became an international-recognized innovator on the Zimbabwean mbira played in his own most untraditional style. He made five mbira albums (two with koto master, Masumi Timson) and he and I worked on Lost Legacy for the last year and a half. This one is only a physical CD and isn’t online yet but if you’d like more info, just hit reply. His other recordings are streamable via all the usual places.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Brian QTN, OsculEARiosophy</b> – This year I released a new recording of my own, <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/album/osculeariosophy">OsculEARiosophy</a>, a naked voice and guitar record with ten songs, new and not so new. The Bayard guitar I play is the whole band and it all was recorded in one session. It has gotten a lot of radio and online airplay this year and has stimulated many great emails and letters. Take it for a spin. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>C.</b> It is a changing time and music you enjoy is a great tool to have in your box. It slows time, changes the channel, and fills your head with ideas and stories. It fills your heart with melodies and rhythm. It can be habit-forming and yet, it is way better than teevee. Or obsession, alcohol, drama or confusion. I agree with George Harrison who said it was the best part of himself he had to give.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">With so much in constant flux all around us, it is good to remember that we are people all in this together with much more in common than our differences. Sometimes what needs to change is our ideas about each other and as much as systems and politricks, corporations and global dysfunction would like to separate us and make us dislike, hate or fear each other, we are all riding on this same little pebble in a vast swift evre-expanding river that curls back on itself like Ouroboros eating its own tail. Mind yer entropies and cues and let’s be kind to one another and embrace the changes we all are facing. As the song goes: let us know, let us know, let us know...</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh, and Richard Crandell made acronyms too. My favourite of his is: ACRONYM - Another Creative Round of New Youthful Music! </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The Wordless Solstice is dedicated to Richard this year.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">May you find heartpeace in your days. Onward into 2023!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Your corn forest pundit,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">bq</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /><br />Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-68934464126213180612022-07-03T23:27:00.001-07:002022-07-03T23:27:07.030-07:00Brian QTN July Music in Oregon!<p> </p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGS67KljWwc1fPEnGQSA0Rb_78hpt2lxOY4ksGPlQ34KLYuQGzMZ94kD3OFfKCQiG5E3_gcOGoDMIokbXGsaz5xPN81AvQxewFDR887zGmwAE-vGJ0sUKI9e7cB1j1gkyCIl5ytZNYlXtZWPpvwKyC9SMfHuddiNGuQE2gb3gtT8PKXNsxoJAiQ47hxg/s1000/QBand-19-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGS67KljWwc1fPEnGQSA0Rb_78hpt2lxOY4ksGPlQ34KLYuQGzMZ94kD3OFfKCQiG5E3_gcOGoDMIokbXGsaz5xPN81AvQxewFDR887zGmwAE-vGJ0sUKI9e7cB1j1gkyCIl5ytZNYlXtZWPpvwKyC9SMfHuddiNGuQE2gb3gtT8PKXNsxoJAiQ47hxg/w295-h393/QBand-19-5.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrew Alikhanov and QTN at OCF 2019 Photo by Kimm Still</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> A hat tip of the summery daze to Upper Left Edge folk near and far! <br /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b class="">OCF, Wordless and worded post Fair dates and times below</b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Still swimming through Kerrblur after six weeks in Texas at the 50th Kerrville Folk Festival. It wasn't below 95 degrees any day of that time and often it was triple digits. I learned to take 5 showers in a row everyday and it helped immensely. Indeed a tough beautiful time with many dear heartsouls and beautiful long unseen faces. <a class="" href="https://youtu.be/2Scl4YRqGck">Here</a> is a video peek of the finale of our Crow’s Nest show with us all singing “Sometimes A Darkness Comes” for your edification and enjoyment </div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I realized I mostly was peripatetic throughout years of this liferide (at least til the past couple) and I moved through many communities for most of it. Two and a half years is a way too long time between visits. There are new things in the big mindheart and faces outpictured by so many I saw. And now I get to do it again with an intensive weekend at the <a class="" href="https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/">Oregon Country Fair</a>, my 34th year of playing music there. I am celebrating with the release of a new 10 song album, <a class="" href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/album/osculeariosophy">OsculEARiosophy</a>, linked here for streaming.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">This year’s QTNBand has the usual suspects – Jason Montgomery on bass, Lewi Longmire on mando, Michelle Alany on violin and Andrew Alikhanov on clarinet and for the first time this year, we'll be joined by Courtney Von Drehle on accordion and whatever he feel like playing. </div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Strangely we have two sets both on the same stage at the same time each day, two days in a row and we’ll have musical surprises each day.</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class="" /><div class="" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-align: center;"><b class="">Saturday July 9 1:40-2:40 PM@ Blue Moon</b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-align: center;"><b class="">Sunday July 10 1:40-2:40 PM @ Blue Moon</b></div><br class="" /><br class="" /><div class=""><span class="">For folks who won’t be at OCF this year too – my annual post Fair gig with</span> two sets, a picnic, kids, cookies and community encouraged.</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class="" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;">Wednesday, July 13</b>, <b class="">6:30 pm</b> </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class=""><b class="">Eugene’s Scobert Park </b></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class=""><b class="">(on 4th St. by Sam Bond’s across </b></span><b class="">the str</b><b class="">eet from Nelson’s) </b> </div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Later this month, I’ll be playing guitar and feeding the ravenous Wordless Beast in me with two outdoor Saturday evening gigs:</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">Saturday July 23 and Saturday July 30, from </b><b class="">6-8 pm </b></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">at 16 Tons </b><b class="">in South Eugene at 29th and Willamette St.</b></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">in the plaza with Market of Choice</b>.</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class="" /></div><div class="">World is a hot scary mess nowadays and human gatherings are more important than ever. There are many ways to raise our voices to call attention to the madness all around. We are not powerless working together and we can move many heavy huge stones like we have many times before. World is changing and the dysfunctional ways things have always been done are running themselves out. Metamorphosis. Image a nation. Image a world. Image mindfulness, connectivity community.</div><div class=""><br class="" /></div><div class="">Your corn forest pundit,</div><div class="">bq<br /></div></span></div></div></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-23632895374114826952022-04-10T18:47:00.003-07:002022-04-10T18:49:04.399-07:00Brian QTN Going Through Texas With Drawl 2022<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJQRhhV6malc6HOZ96NpKW46LjV-r0IfiEROwrEOk806sqRTRAVi2NjTzPwVmd5TsQl4mlzsdRdrp3pJAWGUOtnpvhJ1xs-kbLsV6RzUXR0Jwmc2J4QbVZ-IdmM-G5nWJalqRbmPEBgoLbPpeSWEIj9Id8OvMuk8JUBEjTRLBWIxPBGVQgq52Eu7bBQ/s1488/MW%20n%20QTN%20Staff%20Concert%20Kerr82-84%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1488" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJQRhhV6malc6HOZ96NpKW46LjV-r0IfiEROwrEOk806sqRTRAVi2NjTzPwVmd5TsQl4mlzsdRdrp3pJAWGUOtnpvhJ1xs-kbLsV6RzUXR0Jwmc2J4QbVZ-IdmM-G5nWJalqRbmPEBgoLbPpeSWEIj9Id8OvMuk8JUBEjTRLBWIxPBGVQgq52Eu7bBQ/w400-h271/MW%20n%20QTN%20Staff%20Concert%20Kerr82-84%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark "Gumby" Williams and QTN, Kerrville Folk Fest, 1983<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Hello people of the HeartMindMusicSongSoulVerve!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">All the boing of Spring to you all! <br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">It’s April already though it got here mighty fast. Still chilly here and even though baseball season has begun, it’s snowing in several parts of the country. Grateful for snowdump this week in the higher elevations here as that is our summer water and we are still in drought. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Worldsphere is waking in a new form. Everyone and everything has been changed somehow in the last couple years of staying far from the crowding mad and reassessing what works and what doesn't. Through it all folks still create, and the new songs, poems, paintings, films, books, dances and expression move and speak differently. There is a line from the Before Times to now and even though there are difficult and terrible things happening all around us, there are also things that are proceeding, overcoming great odds in a more positive way in tandem simultaneously.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Winter was deep and productive, even in my learning to rest differently and better. Been working on archives, recording new music, playing guitar, making a new album, compiling a book of stories for <a href="https://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org" target="_blank">Kerrville Folk Festival</a>’s 50th anniversary written by a folks who took the time to write a story to benefit the KFF Foundation, and space here to ponder other endless imponderables. There is a rhythm, and in every beginning is the rhythm even before words are necessary.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I am excited about heading to Texas in a few weeks as I've done for so many years for playing shows, Kerrville and for visiting familyfolk long unseen. Right after the Texas trip I’ll be playing at a real live and in person <a href="https://oregoncountryfair.org/">Oregon Country Fair </a> too. Tickets for both events are on sale now and are smaller in size than previous years so don’t wait to get em. I’ll send OCF details soon.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Texas gigs:</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">• <b>Mother’s Day, May 8, I’ll be celebrating the new QTN album, OsculEARiosophy, with a concert in Austin at Radio Coffee and Beer, 4204 Manchaca Rd</b>., <b>from 7-10 pm</b>. Got special guests in mind and there’ll be a Texas sending with more info this week. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Meawhile, if you’d like to order a copy of the OsculEARiosophy CD or download the songs, go <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/">here</a>. I've just ordered a second run of CDs as the first pressing went fast and what good news that is. The album is intimate – 10 songs with one sweet Bayard guitar and one QTN voice, recorded head on with 3 vintage mics in the sweet studio where I recorded Guitarred and Feathered and songs from The Sound of Photosynthesis. Thanks to all the DJs who are sharing this with their listeners already.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">• <b>Thursday June 2, at 9 pm, Steve Fisher and I host the toasting of the wonder that is the Crow’s Nest, saluting Crow Johnson who the campfire is named for </b><b>onstage at Kerrville </b><b>on</b> <b>the Threadgill Stage.</b> I’ve camped and sung around that Ring of Stones for more than half the years of my life and some pretty astonishing things have taken place there under the stars in the deepest night. There’ll be songs and other guests and I’m thrilled to hear that Crow will be there in person as well to make this festive night ever so much more heart-moving and indelible.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">• <b>Sunday June 12, 2 pm, I host the Ballad Tree</b> <b>session</b> <b>on Chapel Hill</b> on the last day of the 50th Kerrville Festival. Bring a song or poem, your friends and your ears. Also that night, you can see David Amram conduct the Festival Orchestra for the grande finale. David is 91 and still an extraordinary performer! See the whole amazing Fest schedule <a href="https://kerrvillefolkfestival.org/2022-kff-schedule">here</a>.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">During the week before Kerrville, while in Austin, I am looking for a set of street legal wheels I could borrow for around town use and/or a venue for me to play Wordless Guitar or a singing guest set or two. Best way to reach me is through this email. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for your ears, your kind letters and good thoughts about OsculEARiosophy. The sap is rising and the energy is high for change and evolution. Doing my best to rise to meet it. After all, we didn’t come here to go to sleep – we came here to WAKE UP.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Your corn forest pundit,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">bq</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Hot veggie links:<div><a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">QTN music</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Brian-QTN">QTN fb</a></div><div><a href="http://qtnrg.org/">Aged website</a> </div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMFw2WuiFZc23mhfvaYmP9g">Hibidiville Youtube channel</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-70776635381668190902022-02-13T01:22:00.011-08:002022-02-13T01:26:59.187-08:00QTNs OsculEARiosophy and the Water Tiger Year<p> </p><div><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8C3PywIVJWQWL4545hIaId7TmPr5hI9VIvVif0r3zsQ6KSc0Gsb1sdC0mHer-NXI3slFvKPWgJXJjpokJf6Jj1WHEtFLIZYPc1OaU75rFBHCBFDiUUBOfdOGr7nq9YjnzK4uO6YBk1OCPVpvrbeVHfVVxyd3fBQhKqH_VYq6pcxTk6RQ5mWskYweDEQ=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8C3PywIVJWQWL4545hIaId7TmPr5hI9VIvVif0r3zsQ6KSc0Gsb1sdC0mHer-NXI3slFvKPWgJXJjpokJf6Jj1WHEtFLIZYPc1OaU75rFBHCBFDiUUBOfdOGr7nq9YjnzK4uO6YBk1OCPVpvrbeVHfVVxyd3fBQhKqH_VYq6pcxTk6RQ5mWskYweDEQ=w364-h364" width="364" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It’s the top of a new ear and already in process! The sap is rising like the rivers and the water is a-flowin.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>There are four parts to this newsletter:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b>1. A </b></span><b>Musing</b> <b>on the</b> <b>Water Tiger Year </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b>2. New QTN album, OsculEARiosophy</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>3. The Petals by Al Grierson</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b>4. Last Call for Kerrville Stories</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>1.</b> Here we go round and round the big wheel that scrapes the sky. Moon was New February 1 and so a new Lunar Year begins. This time around itsa Watery Tiger following a heavy Metal Ox and it’s been observed that if the Metal Ox was a dam, the Water Tiger may well burst it as big energetic changes move further in. Water is yin, an element of ending and a preparing for something new. Other perspectives can be helpful especially in times like these.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>Lots of deep breaths lately to begin again in this contracted winter with grace and fluidity. Fluid-ditties are fun to sing even though there aren’t many gigs to play with real live people these days. I am digging into singing and guitarring, making new things to sing, finding older ones to re-sing. Real eyes sing.<br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b>2.</b> I begin this new lunar year offering the heartiest thanks to all of you who’ve been preordering <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/album/osculeariosophy">OsculEARiosophy</a> Preorders have helped mix, master, manufacture and send this new recording out into the whirld at large. Already it has gone many places and it goes out to many more round the world officially this month. </span>Physical copies and digital files are there (even though we are in an odd time where CD players have largely gone the way of the Thesaurus.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>For those of you in radio, a separate sending is coming your way. If your email address has changed, please let me know asap. Radio folk can request digital downloads with metadata to get the music out faster (and less $ for postage). </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> I made a new recording l<span>ast summer in my favourite studio here, with three vintage mics, six exceptional strings on an extraordinary Bayard guitar, ten fingers and a voice, and in one 6 hour session, ten songs were recorded. Order and stream tracks via my bandcamp page linked above and you can comment there or send words here. I’ve been told it’s a fun album to listen to on a cold day with a good cuppa something hot. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>Two other important mentions:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b>3.</b> </span><b>The Petals,</b> Al Grierson’s 3rd album, was released last year as a collection of unreleased gems he left behind and curated by me with a baker’s dozen of unforgettable Al tunes. The project was begun by Anne Feeney and I years ago, dear to our hearts and it all came together incredibly. Al's been gone 20 years now (and Anne left us a year ago) – his songs are eternal, so what’s a couple decades between friends? The other two albums he made while he stomped the terra firma are streamable and downloadable at his Bandcamp page <a href="https://algrierson.bandcamp.com/">here</a> and all sales go directly to his two daughters. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>4. </b><span><b>2022 is Kerrville Folk Festival’s 50th Anniversary</b> and that means it's last call for stories for the Kerrville book Festfolk are writing together. If you’ve been procrastinating, the buzzer just sounded. I need them all as soon as possible to get it together and done by May Fest. Don’t wait to send your tales of amazing Kerrville happenings, camp origins, rain stories, Kerr-characters, raisin consciousness, rivers and weather, synchronicities and absurdities. Wax poetic and share your unbelievable experiences with the Kerr-munity and the rest of the outside world. Just collect your thoughts, </span>type em up and<span> hit reply to me here. If you’ve posted a great story on fb, copy it off the page and paste it into an email.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Here's hoping we have places to gather and sing again, festivals for the soul and other community hoopla. Hoping too we can come together as human neighbours and people with kind hearts to stop the animosity toward each other and focus on the important changes inevitably headed our way. </span></div><div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>The oldest trick in the book is propagated by those with hubris and no hearts inflicting dualities into everything so folks argue endlessly about what they choose while their pockets are picked, and their rights and culture are exploited and stripped clean of its soul by those who stand to gain the most… it’s the oldest trick…</span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>Thank you for being a part of this list, for your many letters, your enthusiasm and your ears. It is no small thing to me here on the hill over by the way and I hope to see you out there soon.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>Lord Buckley said it best:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>“The flowers, </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers, </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>are not the flowers of life, </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>but people, </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>people are the true flowers of life </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>and it has been a most </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>precious pleasure </span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>to have temporarily strolled in your garden.”</span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>Your corn forest pundit,</span></span></span></span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>bq</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span></span><br /></div></div></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-497909948060959972021-11-10T15:28:00.003-08:002021-11-10T15:33:04.121-08:00The Harvest Is In!<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA5onEwwrT7HvkoDHV0xjXbFoxZCC-hrp-4lx57JZniGCG_QAM6zYQLO5hG-1wD4SC2LJ23bR7WgDK75p9ZtfmBOYSje2Q7Jr2-ADmNlJEry8zva5z7VXKFTtlJUhIMoOdAT30Ogad5LJ/s2048/ctnwd+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1604" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA5onEwwrT7HvkoDHV0xjXbFoxZCC-hrp-4lx57JZniGCG_QAM6zYQLO5hG-1wD4SC2LJ23bR7WgDK75p9ZtfmBOYSje2Q7Jr2-ADmNlJEry8zva5z7VXKFTtlJUhIMoOdAT30Ogad5LJ/w314-h400/ctnwd+2.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><br />Greets of the season Corn Forest Pondents!<p></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div>King Harvest has surely come! Trees are fantastic colours, the leaves are blowing, skywater is falling like it’s supposed to, the air is soft and cool, mushrooms are popping out, fruit trees are loaded and river is a mighty force teeming and roaring in its autumn rush. It is my favourite time of year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just back from a three week Texas trip to the 49th Kerrville Folk Festival, held this year in October instead of May. Guess I needed to sleep on the ground for a couple of weeks and stay up late listening to so many amazing songs and singing to the dawn because I sure feel different than when I left. It was a very small fest like in the 80s and felt so good to be around others again. I feel a different energy available and my spirit got a real good tune-up just in time for the turn of the season.</div><div><br /></div><div>While the rest 2021 dwindles and the season slows to a more contracted time, I have a news of newly-recorded and in person music. Some parts of the world community are opening carefully and slow – it is exciting to proceed.</div><div><br /></div><div>• <b>On Sunday December 5, at 7 pm</b>, I will be sharing an intimate musical evening concert with Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker at the WOW Hall in Eugene as a part of a 3-night tour that includes Seattle and Portland. Adrianne is an extraordinary guitarist songwriter and we both will be playing solo sets. The other two nights sold out long ago but I hear there are still a few tickets left for the Eugene show. Click <a href="https://www.wowhall.org/events/adrianne-lenker-brian-qtn">here</a> for tickets but don’t wait too long. </div><div><br /></div><div>• <b>More</b> <b>Big News</b>: This summer, I recorded at new album – a ten-song voice and guitar collection called <b>OsculEARiosophy</b> and it looks like it will be out before the end of the month. A couple of tracks will be posted on my Bandcamp page beginning November 12 and preorders for it open then. Bookmark <a href="http://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/">brianQTN.bandcamp.com</a> and squint yer ears. This is a very different album from others I’ve made and I love the way it all sounds.</div><div><br /></div><div>• <b>Visit my </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/hibidiville"><b>Hibidiville Youtube channel</b></a> – I’ve been uploading all kinds of videos featuring QTN ancient and recent, Anne Feeney, East Side Flash, Ed and Carol Florida, and Biff Rose from the Kerrville archives, Richard Crandell and Masumi Timson and many others. Subscribe and be notified when new vids are added.</div><div><br /></div><div>After these last couple of crazy years, I'm hoping live music will return in full force along with gatherings of all types to feed soulhearts and imaginations. Even though I have enjoyed music livestreams online when wifi is strong enough here, to me they are nowhere near the same as direct transmissions in person. Thanks for your words and thoughts, notes and letters, process and perseverance.</div><div><br /></div><div>Huge harvest greets from your corn forest pundit,</div><div>bq</div></div></div></div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Hot veggie links:<div><a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">QTN music</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Brian-QTN">QTN fb</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-54841079356725634862021-08-19T19:13:00.002-07:002021-08-19T19:15:12.922-07:00Dog Day Gigs August 21 and 22 , Eugene Oregon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyhUvH_aWlFgOR6cj8ISGeqD3PnJ9yEIZnBNZ_0BA4AG3MfP6iXo0fF2-fRowy6m4JoRNlqqwlOU78KKL6__Eyn_BeQLPZAOsuaFn4Yrp6MIRu7Sr5M-WiAOWuZosshLZ0l1AQYsiVJ4PM/s640/bee+buddha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyhUvH_aWlFgOR6cj8ISGeqD3PnJ9yEIZnBNZ_0BA4AG3MfP6iXo0fF2-fRowy6m4JoRNlqqwlOU78KKL6__Eyn_BeQLPZAOsuaFn4Yrp6MIRu7Sr5M-WiAOWuZosshLZ0l1AQYsiVJ4PM/s320/bee+buddha.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px;">This Friday and Saturday join me for what may be my last gigs in Eugene for awhile. I surely do look forward to seeing you all and both dates are outdoors with plenty of space and I'm happy to play. Ear squinting permitted!</span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 6-8 pm</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>QTNstrumental Wordless Guitar in front of 16 Tons, </b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2864 Willamette (between Market of Choice and Laughing Planet) FREE</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Two hours of QTN Wordless Guitar with food, libations, community and a gorgeous summer Saturday evening in the same plaza as Laughing Planet and Pegasus Pizza. Everyone and their dogs welcome.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 5 pm</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>QTN</b> <b>Outdoors at 118 Merry Ln. in the River Road neighbourhood</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">An intimate QTN concert with two sets and a very special guest </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on a beautiful spot near the Willamette River. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Tickets at the door, $10-$20 sliding scale.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">There are overstuffed plum trees and plenty of space all around. Bring your own chair or use one there. Gates open 4:30 pm, show at 5 pm. Bring water for hot days. Free parking at Hosanna Studios, 1361 River Rd. or nearby street parking. </span></p>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-59242707495825527922021-06-14T13:18:00.002-07:002021-06-14T13:18:32.127-07:00QTN Summer News -All the print that's fit to moot<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMXoLgCC7-xDPw5AG98QQUyC4NfkW_eBdhV6X2P_y6BZmI4Yvbn3fFNLmjdR3ThVrp2IF2HoFwLNvIWbBO85eWMUdNPM7PjUs3raIbhUbWYgQgcZ0f6eS78KWpVcL6WsFP60v5ndw3eQc/s1400/The+Petals+cover+3+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMXoLgCC7-xDPw5AG98QQUyC4NfkW_eBdhV6X2P_y6BZmI4Yvbn3fFNLmjdR3ThVrp2IF2HoFwLNvIWbBO85eWMUdNPM7PjUs3raIbhUbWYgQgcZ0f6eS78KWpVcL6WsFP60v5ndw3eQc/w400-h400/The+Petals+cover+3+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al Grierson's new Al-bum 20 years after he caught a Westbound</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <b style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px;">Lots in this newsletter:</b></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A •<b> A few, fun, fortuitous, future QTN local music opportunities this summer</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">B •<b> A 3 Night Tour With Adrianne Lenker, Seattle, Portland and Eugene</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">C •<b> Al Grierson’s new album The Petals is out</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;">A •<b> FUN, FORTUITOUS FUTURE QTN LOCAL SHOWS THIS SUMMER </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>– </b>I haven’t booked much this year but I am playing a few choice dates outdoors in the area in July and August. Not waxing words here (pink eloquence on parade) but just the facks...</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>Wednesday July 14, 6:30 pm</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> – QTN annual Post OCF Concert in Scobert Park, Eugene</b> <b>FREE</b> Plenty of room to stretch out in this sweet little pocket park just west of the corner of 4th and Blair over by Sam Bond’s, World Café and the old Tiny Tavern and lotsa QTN tunes old and new with special guests always a possibility too. There’s a playscape for the kids, picnics are encouraged and Fair costumery is most welcome. I’ve played this annual concert for more than 20 years and it’s always a big fun way to relax together.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>Saturday July 17 & Saturday August 21, 6-8 pm</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> – QTNstrumental Wordless Guitar at 16 Tons, 2864 Willamette #500 (between Market of Choice and Laughing Planet) FREE</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Two hours of QTN guitar to go with food, libations and a gorgeous summer Saturday. Everyone and their dogs welcome.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>Sunday, August 22, 5 pm</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> –</b> <b>QTN</b> <b>Outdoors at 118 Merry Ln., in the River Road neighbourhood Eugene</b>– A special intimate concert on a beautiful spot on the Willamette River and one of 4 Mike Meyer Summer Concert package. Tickets $10-$20 sliding scale and capacity <b>50 seats</b>. Paypal money for reservations (<b>heartily recommended as</b> <b>it is already half sold out</b>) using <a href="mailto:meyercounseling@gmail.com"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">meyercounseling@gmail.com</span></a>, or send a check made out to Mike Meyer, 70 East Howard St. Eugene, OR 97404. I know it’s nearly 3 months out but don’t wait to buy tickets.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;">B •<b> A 3 NIGHT TOUR OPENING FOR ADRIANNE LENKER</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This is gonna be big fun playing the opening set for Adrianne. It is quite the honour to be asked to accompany her on three nights of her solo acoustic tour. In the 10 years I’ve known her, she’s been nominated for a Grammy twice and her band and solo shows have a habit of selling out very quickly all over the world. If you look at her fall tour schedule, many of her fall and winter shows have already sold out, so this is an early head’s up. If you want to see these shows, you'll have to think ahead and buy tickets now. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Ticket links here. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>12/3/21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Seattle, WA Washington Hall</b></span><span class="s5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;"> – <a href="http://ticketweb.com/event/adrianne-lenker-washington-hall-tickets/11071975?pl=crocodile"><span class="s6" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); font-kerning: none;">ticketweb.com/event/adrianne-lenker-washington-hall-tickets/11071975?pl=crocodile</span></a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>12/4/21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Portland, OR<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wonder Ballroom</b></span><span class="s5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;"> – <a href="http://etix.com/ticket/p/8930367/adrianne-lenker-portland-wonder-ballroom"><span class="s6" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); font-kerning: none;">etix.com/ticket/p/8930367/adrianne-lenker-portland-wonder-ballroom</span></a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>12/5/21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eugene, OR<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WOW Hall</b></span><span class="s5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;"> – <a href="http://ticketweb.com/event/adrianne-lenker-wow-hall-tickets/11081755"><span class="s6" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); font-kerning: none;">ticketweb.com/event/adrianne-lenker-wow-hall-tickets/11081755</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;">C •<b> AL GRIERSON’S THE PETALS</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Many of you know that since February, I’ve been working on a collection of Al Grierson’s unreleased recordings. Now it’s out and done and I can’t wait for folks to hear it. Al was the crown prince mythopoet Buddhist hobo trickster singer scribe whose unforgettable songs were filled with history, heartache, observation and wanderlust. He was swept away in a Texas flood near Luckenbach back in November of 2000 and his plaintive guitar, harmonica and voice were the perfect ruse to draw you deeper into his stream of consciousness world of poetry, mayhem, mythology and mischief. It is a project I began with Anne Feeney and when she was in the hospital the last time, I decided it needed to be completed. She and Al have both inspired and accompanied me all throughout the process. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">What started with 7 unreleased songs blossomed with the help of his friends. The new disc is 13 songs from many sources, all brilliantly restored and remastered by Sky Onion Audio and now there is also a huge archive of other recordings and video uncovered in the process. The album’s proceeds and archive all go to Al’s two daughters and The Petals is a fine companion to the other two albums he left behind. All three albums are downloadable via Al’s new Bandcamp page <a href="http://algrierson.bandcamp.com/"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">algrierson.bandcamp.com</span></a>. The Petals is also available as a gorgeous, limited run physical CD. Preorders went into the mail today and the rest of the CDs will go fast, so order a copy asap from his bandcamp page to get one.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">If you made it through all this news, I thank you. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Enjoy these golden days and drink a lot of water. Water is life.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Your corn forest pundit,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">bq<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-400034318907649812021-06-07T14:31:00.005-07:002021-06-07T14:34:27.159-07:00Looking Ahead to December<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRGYEIb9Okwup3ZrBthPaoy8oXP6FGQuNE7-KSvn5dBPGCO9dOrtWe31MvcaDz3YoH1rqbI8SJGVVYAMXqG3wGE_Bvza4e3IlYGQTVKhfgPhHvv-mgTXZ7Dcfun8lNHZNszsXFeczvviL/s526/adrianne+2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRGYEIb9Okwup3ZrBthPaoy8oXP6FGQuNE7-KSvn5dBPGCO9dOrtWe31MvcaDz3YoH1rqbI8SJGVVYAMXqG3wGE_Bvza4e3IlYGQTVKhfgPhHvv-mgTXZ7Dcfun8lNHZNszsXFeczvviL/s320/adrianne+2021.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adrianne Lenker back on the road<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Howdy all!</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Just received big fun news this week about December of all things. Got a call from Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief who is doing an extensive fall tour in support of her new double album of acoustic guitar songs and she asked if I would be able to open for her for three shows December 3, 4 and 5 in Seattle, Portland and Eugene. We’ve been friends for about 10 years now and I’m a big fan of her guitar talent and songwriting and so of course I said yes. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Why am I telling you about this now?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In the 10 years I’ve known Adrianne, she’s been nominated for a Grammy twice and her band and solo shows have a habit of selling out very quickly all over the world. If you look at her fall tour schedule now, many of her shows have already sold out, so this is a head’s up. If you want to go, you have to think ahead. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The shows I will be opening for were announced in the big media today and tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10 am PST. I know the show is quite a ways out and the dice are always rolling and nobody knows who or what we’ll be up to then, but one friend who loves both of our songwriting told me “You have to tell everyone so they can have a chance to get tickets!” and so I am.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;">Tickets here: <a href="http://adriannelenker.com/tourdates.html"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); font-kerning: none;">adriannelenker.com/tourdates.html</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">December seems like a long ways away especially since it was 95 degrees today…</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Your corn forest pundit</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br />bq </p>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-22684746414130651902020-12-13T18:03:00.006-08:002020-12-13T18:11:53.237-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo1V4lij8occjQWVmbfBR6ZBQBJ5sF3tcosDY89MZ8xs-ZKaXA0_-l1QtBjzDxWP_mygvWn0I_MeIMiXay_mwJ0S3v-JqAu3a6-mcWcm7ZWlv6wN-BBYw4l9OWcRz3w28apTvWdVSCYoz/s2048/WORDLESS+SOLSTICE+banner+2020.3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo1V4lij8occjQWVmbfBR6ZBQBJ5sF3tcosDY89MZ8xs-ZKaXA0_-l1QtBjzDxWP_mygvWn0I_MeIMiXay_mwJ0S3v-JqAu3a6-mcWcm7ZWlv6wN-BBYw4l9OWcRz3w28apTvWdVSCYoz/w400-h225/WORDLESS+SOLSTICE+banner+2020.3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">photo by Karyn Raman</div><br /> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-kerning: none; font-size: 20px;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-kerning: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-kerning: none; font-size: 20px;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-kerning: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-kerning: none; font-size: 20px;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Sunday December 20 • 7 pm PST</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Return of</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>QTN’s WORDLESS SOLSTICE</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Virtual this year and Live Online</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>from the stage at Tsunami Books</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and streaming from their facebook </b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>and youtube pages</b></span></p><p class="p5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 30px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">An evening of musical mindfulness </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">holding space for the longest night </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">and a lively toast to the end of this most impossible year</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with wordless songs of wound wire and wood!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: Didot; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: Didot; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: Didot; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫</span><span class="s3" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></p><p class="p6" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Didot; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A hearty turn of another year’s greets to you all. </span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Although I have missed seeing all the tribes of folk I usually visit along the way every year, it is an incredible thing to be home everyday – I haven’t done that since about 1986. Utah Philips said when he was finally told to stay home and not go on another road trip, “It’s a different way to travel!” </span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Since we used to say "bulletins as they occur,” here's a short notice for you, coming right up. I've been asked to play my Wordless Solstice concert (an annual</span><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">event for nearly ten years) and this year, virtual and streaming live from the hallowed stage at Tsunami Books in Eugene. It starts early, at 7 pm PST and 10 pm on the East Coast and we’ll be streaming the hour on Tsunami’s facebook and youtube pages simultaneously (Baby Gramps would say, “Same ol’ timeously.”)</span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">There won’t be an in person audience, but you can attend without even leaving your house. Take a trip and never leave the Farm! Tune in from anywhere on this swinging sphere. Text your friend on the other side of the planet and experience it together. It’s a golden opportunity to celebrate the Winter Solstice 2020 and the great Jupiter and Saturn conjunction (which hasn’t occurred in Aquarius since the 13th century) with a bunch of wonderful people and all accompanied by live spontenacious QTN guitar music without all those pesky words. Tsunami has hosted this event for nearly ten years now. This will be a FREE show for all, and donations are welcome too.</span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We’ll turn the lights down and light candles. It's a heart toast to the longest night, and early enough so you can still go outside and watch Jupiter and Saturn dance too. Solstice time this year is Monday, December 21 at 2:02 am PST. </span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Music helps me remember everything important in moving mercurial shapes and sounds and the brightness of the synesthesia of the seasonal turn and I am still moved by the sound of a guitar even after all these many years of playing.</span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My wish is for us all to remain healthysafe and sound, speedy healing to those I know struggling with this covid mess, and kindness and heartpeace to remember what we can do working together. There is so much that needs to be changed to repair our dysfunctional social mess and it really does begin inside, so it can continue to radiate outward.</span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My recordings are mostly all available at brianQTN.bandcamp.com and folks still order CDs by mail. Most grateful I be for all the letters, the affirmations and absurdities, the graces and the many ways we reach and touch from afar in this strangest of times. </span></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Maybe it is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus...</span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Your 21st century corn forest pundit,</span></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">bq</span></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p>Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-32553545746995442042020-06-23T17:34:00.003-07:002020-08-08T14:31:19.639-07:00Toppling Statues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes the headlines write the songs. I had a good time writing this. Now if I could just get it out of my head…. Sing it to the tune of "On Top Of Old Smoky"</div>
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We're toppling statues<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of confederate schmoes</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">i'd rather see Larry, Curly and Moe</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Let’s have Ella and Billie, Sir Duke or Roy Haynes</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan or Coltrane</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Or maybe Aretha or Sojourner Truth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Audre Lord or John Lewis or ol Langston Hughes</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We're toppling statues</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of old men with no souls</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to replace them with heroes like Sun Ra or Nat Cole</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Elizabeth Cotten, Charles Mingus or Prince</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Barry White, Crispus Attucks or Atticus Finch</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Big Mama Thornton, Ruby Dee or Odetta,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mahalia Jackson or Sister Rosetta</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Or Zora Neale Hurston or Nina Simone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Bessie Smith or Slim Gaillard, Monk or Sly Stone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We're toppling statues</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">those old men must go</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">To celebrate people</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with big hearts and souls</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>(The Nina Simone statue is in her hometown of Tryon, NC. Sculpted by Zenos Frudakis, it contains some of her ashes in a bronze heart built into the chest.)</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Greets to you on the cusp of the strangest summer after the strangest winter and spring I can ever remember. Here’s hoping you are standing up and at em, learning lots, and digging in during this most explosive time of social change and growth. Somehow we all are doing our parts creating a different kind of place to live in and there has never been a time like this before.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I am grateful for this place where I live, for the community of folks I know in so many places and the many ways creation continues to manifest as we question everything we’ve been taught and reach beyond it all to move beyond limiting beliefs and conditioned responses. It is a time of big swift change and a deep renegotiating and revisioning of the way we choose to live together.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Amazingly, along with everything else happening this year, 2020 is also the 25th anniversary of <b>Is As Does Is</b><b>. </b>That 1995 album has just been remastered and reimagined to celebrate its silver year – but who woulda thought we’d be where we are and why do this now? </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been preparing to do this for awhile. Back in February, I dug out the original master tape thinking it was the perfect time to revisit it and took it to Sky Onion Studio in Portland to have it remastered. It sounds real and 3D now instead of muddy and muffly like when it first was made it into a CD. It hasn’t been available since the turn of the century and for good reason.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The album is a dozen rollicking, relevant tracks recorded simply with a guitar, voice and a bit of harmonica – wound wires and wood meeting the human voice and mind, from a time before pocket phones, email and zoom concerts when I was living in my truck and touring everywhere. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The sonic difference is startling and the cover has been updated and re-visioned too thanks to Lampadina Design. As Señor Wences said in his famous Pepto Bismol <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTP8o8YrUuw"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">commercial</span></a>: “It’s the same, just different!” Have a listen, go for a ride, send for a copy or download it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• Order it directly through me with a check or money order, just like in the old days by sending me your mailing details. You can send me messages through the Bandcamp page linked in the next paragraph.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• Order it online as a physical CD in its spiffy new wallet design or download it as lossless soundfiles on Bandcamp <a href="https://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/album/is-as-does-is"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">here</span></a>. Get the album download free when you order the CD too. Sending for a physical copy supports the Postal Service (and who wouldn’t want to do that these days?). </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Whether you pay online at Bandcamp or write to me, mere days later, a uninformed uniformed government employee will deliver a copy directly to your quarantined door almost like magic – only better. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I may be fiddling while Rome burns here, but this project has been a goal for the last several years and other folks have continued to ask for it. While I hoped to have a whole new QTN recording together this year, in this locked-down whirld in the brokedown palace with no live music and no gigs, not much is happening that way now, or maybe in the near future either. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As part of the 25th anniversary celebration, here’s a recently unearthed video of the song Medicine Bow, from Is As Does Is, live and filmed in Zion Narional Park on a tour through Utah about 1997. I’m not sure who filmed this, </span>but it sure is fun to see again. Enjoy. <a href="https://youtu.be/rbofdr1PQW8"><span class="s3" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-kerning: none;">https://youtu.be/rbofdr1PQW8</span></a></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We now return you to your regularly scheduled program which is already in progress… Steady steady now…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Hello bright human beings wherever you be these days!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">QTN reporting in after a very long pause, far from the crowding mad on the hill over by the way in these strangest of most surreal times. May you and yours all be well and healthy and looking forward. Welcome to the new names on this list.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>• Is As Does Is</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>• And in conclusion...</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It is a time of transformation and evolution and this way of unnatural being without shaking hands, hugging, live music and socialization is somehow nearly 100% universal since we are mostly all either quarantined at home or attending to “essential services” (if you are one of The Essentials, my gratitude and eternal thanks).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Emails, messages, texts and even real 3D letters inquiring where and how I be have been coming often and I thank you all for checking in with me. It’s a good to hear from folks even ones I have not heard from in a long time. I still enjoy email and am into letter visits. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Many have asked when there will be a live streaming a QTN set online. Well… cellphone connectivity where I live is dubious at best, so while playing a live concert again is a fun idea I would definitely love to do, it’s not an option to do it from here. My phone doesn’t even ring most times, doesn’t tell me anyone calls and I hafta call in a couple times a day just to see if there are voicemails...</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I made it back to Oregon in mid-October and in January, decided my new full-time job would be to spend several days a week without going to town to get life projects back on track and to learn to just be again. Right about then, the boom got lowered and the multiverse said “Several days a week?! How about you stay home EVERYDAY and for the next several months?” – so here I am, here we all are, and even though I’ve really been looking forward to more social time after the last several years of a different kind of quarantine and isolation. I guess social time not happening anytime soon. This will be the first time in more than forty years that I will not be in Texas for a spring visit. Kerrville has been postponed until October and no one knows what comes next.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Around the world, there is trepidation and fear about the most basic touching and communication and this distorted shelter in place and live music is suddenly gone. The ways we connect socially and deeply as humans is meaningful lifefood to me and it feels so odd and unnatural to be separated this way. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">On another hand, who would ever think that the year of 2020 perfect vision would actually stop the Big Machine and allow us to pause altogether? Perhaps that’s what it means. The only other time in my life I recall everything stopping like this was when Yoko asked the world to be quiet for ten minutes together in honour of John’s passing. Many the world over complied, including radio and television stations that broadcast ten minutes of dead air.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Even with the craziness of it all, this time to me feels sacred; a time to reset and assess, to revision and think about how to move forward. We are changing how things are going to go by looking at process and changing ourselves. As the Heron Moon song says, “There’s nothing to return to, only to proceed...” What does that look like for you?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here in this contracted place, time and projects proceed because this is what I have always done. Perhaps it seems like fiddling while it all burns down, but having time to be still and write, play my instruments and be home is a huge gift, so here on the hill over by the way, I am proceeding with a couple cool endeavours:</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• <b>IS AS DOES IS</b> - Just before lockdown, I dug out the old master tapes of this album and had a new freshly remastered version of that out of print 1995 album made. It sounded okay as the original cassette, but the first CD sounded mushy and muddy to me. Early digital mastering was not very good in the 90s. Thanks to Gus’ masterful remastering job at Portland’s Skyonion Studio, it now sounds clear, wonderful and new. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This year is the 25th anniversary of Is As Does Is too, so I am manufacturing a short run of CDs for those who’ve continued to ask for it. Discs will be ready by May and preorders are happening now. If you’re interested, let me know asap.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• <b>LOLOLOLOLOLO, t</b>he QTN colouring book is again available. Laugh and get the crayons or markers out now that there’s time to colour. Order a book and I’ll send you a 2 1/2” button of the cover image too, both postpaid for $8 (paypal or check). If you’d prefer a contactless version, I can email a printable pdf instantly.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• My other albums and strange recordings are online at <a href="http://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">brianQTN.bandcamp.com</span> </a> Since this crazy world is shrill and there are too many loud voices, I made Guitarred and Feathered, the ten song, wordless guitar album, free or pay-what-you-can to download from Bandcamp. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">If you can’t make a donation, just put 0 in the amount box and hit the download button. It’s my way of saying a big thank you for all these years and to send a rollicking instrumental soundtrack back to you to accompany these times. Physical CDs of my albums are available too by mail via Bandcamp. Every little bit helps to keep the wolf from the door…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">• <b>HIBIDIVILLE</b> is the QTN youtube channel where I post my videos. More are coming soon as I’ve been converting my old VHS performances into streamable vids. Subscribe to the channel and you get notified as I post new treats. My other links are listed below the signature at the letter’s end. All feature various QTN content.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It’s true at times like these that we need our artists and creatives to bring new forms into being and many I know are busy alchemizing and creating. It is a time as well when folks who’ve wanted to get more creative are doing so and who knows what will come out of all this. Along with everyone’s lack of work and resource and commerce, I (and many contemporaries) are wondering how to proceed. There is something beyond what we knew as “normal” before this and it is my hope that whatever proceeds from this, it will be better than normal and that we will find a more humane and inclusive way to be on this swinging sphere.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So for now, in answer to queries, the best way to support me, and your favourite artist creatives during this time is to see what they’re up to via websites, social media etc, to order their work online, watch virtual concerts, and make them a donation if you can. Take care of those in your immediate community, especially those who are older and most vulnerable and alone. Even curbside visits from across the yard can be good contact medicine.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Historically in times like these (there have been other times like these) the world has come back reset and reinspired with a new sense of humanity and purpose. A recent essay I’ve enjoyed and passed around is <a href="http://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255); color: #4787ff; font-kerning: none;">The Coronation by Charles Eisenstein</span></a>. I find it objective and wide ranging, containing many things I’ve been thinking these days even way before I read it. Do with it whatever you will.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Thank you for making it this far. As Ken Nordine would say: “ How are things in your town?” Drop me a line and let me know what’s happening where you are. If your email has changed, let me know that too.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Suddenly I am elder in my immediate tribe and as the parents have moved into vivid memory, their passings fresh and vibracious, green life surgemerges up from sleeping bulbs and seeds full of life energy, photosynthesizing it all up for sighs. Another greening season on the wildmind Earth after hardly any sun around here since way last October. I remember ninety days of grey in the Specific Northwet, but never here in the midwest.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’ve visited my Upper Left Edge home a mere handful of times the last few years, a couple of weeks or a month at a time. I can feel the pull especially now, but first there is a family museum to disperse, a home to clean, prepare to sell and it is process work, not unlike writing a tune, making an album or lengthy project of any kind. It was theoretical for years, what this time would be like then all of a sudden, it’s in realtime 3D. Remembering to breathe intentionally, energy to fingertips and the medicine of wound wires and wood is what gets me through it all.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">In every house I’ve been in, I wonder what stories are in the layers of paint and wallpaper; how many tough life moments live in the walls and floors, how many tender ones; how many birthdays and holidays, pictures and tears and grieving and laughter, meals and glasses of wine. </span></div>
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<br />Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-49082891985934466582018-12-21T09:38:00.000-08:002018-12-21T09:38:33.618-08:00QTN 2018 End of the Ear Retrospective<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1">2018 has dwindled away and suddenly here we are in the years. Today the Winter Solstice and tomorrow, days begin to lengthen again. December is always a zoom of energy and a welcome reflective time and most especially this year. If folks seem a bit kinder and more open, that's no small thing these days. Perhaps it’s a cellular imprint on our earliest beings and all the old seasonal tales we’ve been told like mythological whispers replay with tidings of comfort and joy even as the world mostly seems like anything but. The pic above will show you how I’m celebrating this year...</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Of course they are available separately too. If you prefer physical CDs with real covers and liner notes etc, I’ve made another run of Guitarred and Feathered and Sound of Photosynthesis, Hearthearthearth, Parakeetfishhead and Lubricating the Species are still in print too. When you download The Sound of Photosynthesis album, if you’d like a poster of its splendicious cover art with the album's lyrics on the back, I can mail it to you postally as I’ve just found a stash.</span></div>
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<br />Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-79280126526325378622018-07-05T12:21:00.002-07:002018-07-05T12:24:41.205-07:00QTN Summer News, livestream concert and albums available again!<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black;">•• I’ve finally remanufactured <b>Guitarred and Feathered</b>,<b> </b>my 2010 album featuring one guitar and no words recorded in front of eight splendid mics. The first pressing sold our quickly and though it’s been downloadable on my Bandcamp page, physical CDs are not the same as files and folks have been asking for another run. The wordless music is a fine listen and the fabulous feather paintings on the cover were done by New Mexico Theresa Gray and quite remarkable.</span></span></div>
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<br />Brian QTN and Mr. Roldeebee sez:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02854907971109338108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913216154766592398.post-13202942540308649882017-12-22T07:36:00.000-08:002017-12-22T07:38:30.942-08:00QTN 2017 End of the Ear Retrospective<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">It was pointed out to me that this December 31 will be the only day when every adult was born in the 20th century and every child was born in the 21st. The turn of the year is a good time to check in with those we call family, by blood or by choice. As many folks drop off the sphere each year, older generations vanish and youngers too. It’s always a good idea to tell someone you’re thinking of them. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I can’t imagine where I would be without all your ears, support, letters, affirmation, ideas and feedback and I’m glad I don’t need to imagine it. Somehow I have been doing this musiclife for a very long time and it is a strange sustenance. A fine community too of creatives who revision each day and bring new thought and clarity into being through hand and heart made art, silliness, music, dance and bright beingness.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">May your New Ear hear thrilling music unanticipated and incredible. May your close ones enjoy health, wherewithal and as many graces as an opening heart can hold. To my fellow Northwet pluviophiles, I hope to be back there soon to drink the winter skies and sea.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="s1">•*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫ <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">BRIAN CUTEAN</span></b></span><span class="s2"><b> </b></span><span class="s1">*♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>FRIDAY JULY 7 BLUE MOON 12:20 pm</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>SATURDAY JULY 8 COMMUNITY VILLAGE 4 pm</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A sweet treat of a place to play and eat at with delicious food and great people. Outside under the trees with a fine buncha folks </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A beautiful house for a concert, an awe-inspiring potluck beforehand </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>and a community of creative Hill Country folk!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Order and stream my new album via <a href="http://brianqtn.bandcamp.com/">brianQTN.bandcamp.com</a> and listen and download from the same page. There’s plenty of old weird QTN songs along with whole albums. Order by mail with a check or money order? Yes thank you! Tell me where and how many.</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>THURSDAY MAY 25 – JUNE 11 - The 46th Kerrville Folk Festival</b></span><span class="s2">. I'll be out there maybe the whole time... What are you waiting for? Get your tickets, make your plans and come out to the Quiet Valley Ranch. Fall into the sky as you sing and meet a buncha extraordinary people you may be friends with for the rest of your life. </span>The schedule and all the info is at <a href="http://kerrville-music.com/"><span class="s4">kerrville-music.com</span></a></div>
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<span class="s2">Hello to you all in the burgeoning blossoming of this 2017 boing of Spring. I’ve never left the Northwest this late to head to Texas and I’m soo ready for this year’s spin there. All around the hillside abode I ostensibly live at, the ground is like quicksand and mud is all around from unrelenting rains and cold. Now here I am heading to the place that’s been warmest since February and the people I get to see are resonant, creative and multifaceted.</span></div>
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<span class="s2">bq</span></div>
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