October Ramblins - A Heron in Front of the Moon

October already? What th-? Suddenly I am winging eastward to the changing time in the far east midwest. It's one of those seasonal QTN spins, coming soon to play music in at a venue near you.

There's a heron in front of the moon and I am open to other houseconcerts or last minute booking ideas etc. Let me know if there is a place in your community that might be interested in hosting a concert.

I've just finished mixing a new recording and it's quite the batch of newly-minted tunes and includes my collaboration with ee cummings. More coming soon about all this and a chance to preorder the finished result too

Hope to see you out there.
Spread the word and bring your friends!
bq

♫♪♫•*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫*  BRIAN CUTEAN  *♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪

 HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND

CONCERTS 2014

•• SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 • GROVEFEST ••

GLENVIEW IL

My stage set is 11:55 am and later at 2:45 pm in the Kennicott Courtyard.

I've played this fest 15 + years and IT'S STILL FUN.

Music, crafts, food and history outdoors on a golden autumn day.

All ages welcome.

The Grove National Historic Landmark is at 1421 Milwaukee Ave.

Glenview, IL 60025. Phone is 847.299.6096

•• SATURDAY OCTOBER 11 • EDGAR'S PLACE ••

PARK FOREST, IL   8 pm

This coffeehouse is located in the Unitarian Universalist Church. It's been around so many years, the last time I played here was before the Millennium way back in the last century.

The concert is not a church function and all ages are welcome.

Tickets: adults $15, kids $10

70 Sycamore Dr. Park Forest, IL 60466 – just south of downtown Park Forest off Western Ave.

uuccpf.org

•• FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 • THE BUZZ CAFÉ ••

OAK PARK, IL • 6:30 pm
The Buzz is a small all-ages venue.

905 S. Lombard Ave, Oak Park, IL. 60304  708.524.2899 

www.thebuzzcafe.com
 

Brian Cutean's 2nd Vibrational Odds n Ends Record-making FUN raiser sale

Last September, I held a sale to assist the funding of my new album project. Thanks to that response, I've recorded a dozen new tunes and I'm now approaching the necessary fundraising to complete the mixing, mastering and manufacturing of the project, at this writing entitled the sound of photosynthesis.

Instead of kickstartin, indiegoin or any of those things,  I'm hosting a one day sale of my personal collection of high-quality vintage records, tapes, and strange vintage collectible ephemera to fund the completion of the new recording,

The sale will be at Tsunami Books Saturday, September 20 beginning at 10 am (and not before) and continuing until 6 pm. At 7 pm, I'll to perform a two set concert on Tsunami's beautiful wooden stage.

This is a relaxed fundraising sale for people, not record dealers. There will be a drawing for a door prize too. A drawing will be held and someone will win an unopened vinyl copy of my 1988 LP, Lubricating the Species, which has somehow become a sought-after collectible.

Crowdsourcing is an interesting word and has made many projects possible. I’ve gotten quite a few letters from folks saying they would rather give a contribution directly to an artist instead of paying website percentages to someone else, hence this FUN-raising energy exchange idea.

This will be my last Eugene area concert until December at the earliest. See you there!

QTN in Portland this weekend!

I'm playing a couple of fun evenings of music and mayhem in Portland this month, one Wordless and one heavily-worded. On Friday, an evening of QTNstrumental Wordless Guitar music at New Seasons' Happy Valley store. Then on Sunday a Celebration of St Francis Park in inner SE Portland where I've done many a concert in other years.

The details:

 •• FRIDAY AUGUST 22 ••
5 to 7 pm
QTNstrumental Wordless Guitar Music
New Seasons Market/Happy Valley, OR
15861 SE Happy Valley Town Cntr. Dr.
Free • All ages welcome

•• SUNDAY AUGUST 24 ••
7 pm
BRIAN CUTEAN & FRIENDS
A Celebration of St Francis Park concert!
SE 12TH and Oak
Other music 4 to 8 pm
featuring:
 Kate Power and Steve Einhorn at 4 pm
The Begonias at 5 pm
Tim Acott, Pete Krebs, Jessie Spero and Dan Haley at 6
Free for all ages and food to eat!

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A Celebration of St. Francis Park, Sunday August 24 from 4 to 8 pm in the park next to the building between SE 12th and Oak and Stark streets. There will be displays showing the history of this beautiful place, the opportunity to share stories and memories, live music, good food and more. 

Heading to the 45th Oregon Country Fair. Listen in live from wherever ye be!

QTN and the QBand beneath a blue peach-coloured sky at OCF

Summery times, the sun and heat, water, and life in the fest lane to ye all!

It's half past another year and that means time for Oregon Country Fair. I've barely recovered from last month's 22 day Kerrville extravaganza and it's been a startling and breathtaking spring road. Everywhere I go, weather is morphing into new and unfamiliar forms and time to float through a blue breezy 3D cloudsky day is rare and morphogenic.

Texas skies were beautiful, some rain, some hot and waylotsa fine company and especially those thus Fested. Now I suddenly find myself back in the Northwest and it's still startling and breathtaking for a whole nother set of blue breezy 3D cloudsky day reasons.

This week I'm remembering to practice my annual learning: how to sleep again. It's difficult to slow the moleculars when the vital life energy keeps pumping it up, so it's all I can do to hang on. The mane is familiar, tho the pace escapes me...

Recordings we began back in February/March are sounding like a new album to me and I'm delighted with how it all continues to come together. New songs, splendid musicians and big surprises. With a bit of luck it may even ready for yer ears to squint at by harvest time. Lotsa whoooeeee if you ask me. More news on this soon.

Believe you me.

Speaking of Oregon Country Fair, this year everyone on this mailing (even as far away as Poitier, France and The Yurt of Yannick) will be able to tune in to our QBand set on Blue Moon Stage next Sunday at 4:45 pm PST (7:45 pm EST). If you're local, tune a radio in to KRVM. If you're anywhere else on the planet stream it live in real time at krvm.org. See the whole OCF schedule at oregoncountryfair.org and listen in for other sets. KLCC is broadcasting Mainstage sets too.

The OCF land disappears beneath the Long Tom River each year. In the summer, the river sleeps and something other comes  through – something groovilicious, spontenacious, raggedy, hilarious and even slightly obsesstuous, higher than the whirld and centrifugally expansive. Nothing like it ever was and never will be again even as it's changed again by the time you've read these words.

The live at Oregon Country Fair CD, QTNTFYOCF is still helping fund the recording of my new untitled project. If you'd like to order QTNTFYOCF and help an entirely new record that is still being made, and have it brought directly to your door by a uniformed government worker, you have only to email me and say the word and the duck comes down. Order instantaneously through paypal or send me one of those pieces of check or money order paper that will be delivered to me by a different uniformed george mcgovernment worker.

If you are not receiving email updates from me, send your email address to QTNZYME (at) yahoo.com and I will add you to the list or "like" the Brian QTN page on FB then remember to click "Get Notifications" otherwise you mostly won't...

Thanks for hanging in with me and welcome to the new names on the list.
Bookmark this page for the latest news, gig info and fun pics.

Your corn forest pun-dit
bq

Here's our set times. On Sunday, you can be here while you're still there!

Brian QTN / QBand at Oregon Country Fair!

Friday July 11 – 
Spontenacity abounding and playing on the path

Saturday July 12 – Shady Grove – 1 pm

Sunday July 13 – Blue Moon – 4:45 pm PST

streamed live at www.krvm.org

Order OCF tickets ahead as admission is capped and NO tickets are available at the site.

See the complete schedule and order tickets through www.oregoncountryfair.org

In Portland, tickets available at Music Millennium.

Back in Oregon! Time for a two city tour with Dick Weissman

Just back from Texas boy, I'ma tell you whut. I've got two fun concerts coming up back to back with Dick Weissman; a mentor friend performer who has been doing his musical work as a one-of-a-kind, well-traveled musician/author since his early days performing with The Journeymen (during what Utah Phillips called “The Great Folk Music Scare of the early 1960s”). He has continued to be prolific, inventive and non stop, with 9 solo albums, 18 published books 50 instructional books for banjo and guitar and countless classes, workshops and record productions. Weissman lived in Portland for the last 10 years and has since relocated back to Denver.

I'm just getting back from my annual Texas tour which included shows around central Texas and the 43rd Kerrville Folk Festival. Lotsa great folks and tunes along the way.


For the second year, Dick Weissman and I get to share an evening of string-picking and song-singing to celebrate his new book and my solar return next Saturday June 28 at Portland's legendary Artichoke Music and Sunday June 29 at the most wonderful bookstore in Eugene, Tsunami Books.

This unique musical evening will be a treat. If you'd like to see Dick with his old group, The Journeymen, from the pre-Beatle days of the Great Folk Scare, look them up on youtube. The other guys in the group were John Phillips (Mamas and Papas) and Scott McKenzie (If You're Going to San Francisco) and Dick is the surviving member.

This year will be my 26th year of playing the Oregon Country Fair and I'll be sending my Fair schedule soon.

See you all suddenly!
bq

Last QTN Texas dates this tour!

Oh what a most splendicious and very full time at the Quiet Valley Ranch and this year's Folk Festival! Many songs were exchanged, many new stories told and plenty of favourite songs, lotsa late nights at Crow's Nest and time with amazing beings. This late night amazing picture from a Crow's campfire was snapped by Neale Eckstein. The music is there too but you woulda had to been there; it remains etheric, intrinsic and morphogenic.

With less than a week of Texas left in me for this year, here are a few more places you can come hear QTN songs. Haven't slept much the last month but I'm-a rarin to go and looking forward to all these fun gigs.

With me this year is a new CD culled from 25+ years of live performances with the QBand at Oregon Country Fair, called QTNTFYOCF. The sale of it is helping fund mixes and masterieng for a new QTN record I've been recording this winter and am mixing at the end of this month. Every little bit helps to make this new one come through.

See you soon at one of these.

The giglist:

•*¨*•.♪♫ QTN GOIN' THROUGH TEXAS WITHDRAWL *♪♫•*¨*


••• PATSY'S SONGWRITER CIRCLE – AUSTIN •••
with NANCY SCOTT and GRETCHEN JANZOW!
Friday June 13, 6:30 pm
Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe
5001 E Ben White Blvd, Austin, TX 78744
512.444.2020

••• TANGLEWOOD HOUSE CONCERT – SAN MARCOS •••
with IKE EICHENBERG!
Saturday, June 14 • Potluck at 6 pm
Suggested donation $15
Seating is limited so RSVP for info to:
trweinberg@yahoo.com or joannagel@yahoo.com
Directions to the house concert will be sent.
A beautiful house for a concert
and a wonderful community of folks!

••• WORDSTRING OUROBOROS EXTRAVAGANZA – AUSTIN •••
with DAVID JEWELL!
Music, Spoken Word, Sonic Surprises and Special Guests
Grace Park, Ike Eichenberg, Jesse Dalton
Sunday June 15, 7:30 pm
Sliding scale $10 - $15
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 West 43rd St.
(a half-block east of Guadalupe St.)
Quite the meeting of mindhearts and otherwise
in the hallowed HPT space.

Everpresently and effervescently

bq

Goin' Through Texas Withdrawl Tour 2014 (Boy, I'm-a tell you what...)

Greets of the green season to you!
40.000 feet and landing soon. In a year of crazy moons, wild storms and a winter like no other I recall, somehow already, the year is more than a third past. The future is now and it looks different than any other future we've ever seen. As it is quite evident, it's still too late to stop now.

There are people on this here mailing list who have received newsletters from me since the days of postcards. They've come out to hear this music and got to know the music for more than 30 years. This road I've traveled would not be here without them and too all of you who are reading.

Excited and happy I am to warm these bones in Texas, to visit the ones I can't wait to see again. Time to listen to mockingbirds and mourning doves, to dance beneath the diamond sky and taste the magnolia mimosa moonlight. I've concerts to play with musical friends, new tunes, old favourites and strange storytelling departures to share that we may ponder and laugh together at the many mysteries of this liferide.

With me this year is a new CD culled from 25+ years of live performances with the QBand at Oregon Country Fair, called QTNTFYOCF. The sale of it is helping fund mixes and mastering for a new QTN record I've been recording this winter.

The live CD will be available at shows and Kerrville. If you're interested in mail ordering the olde fashioned way with check or money order or the mod au go go paperless technology with paypal, that's fine, and for those who just want sound files instantly downloadable, that is available too. Why, the endibilities are posstless...

Here are May and June song-dates for you to come hear and fig for raisin consciousness. Last minute gig suggestions and additions are nearly always possible. Bulletins as they occur. Energy springs forth gushrushing forth in froth and profusion.

The giglist:

•*¨*•.♪♫ QTN GOIN' THROUGH TEXAS WITHDRAWL *♪♫•*¨*

••• WILDFLOWER TERRACE CONCERTS •••

Sharing the evening with PURLY GATES!

Thursday May 15, 7 pm

3801 Berkman Drive, 78723

 in Austin's Mueller Neighborhood.

The event is BYOB. 512.589.8161

www.kyhote.com/wildflower

••• PATSY'S SONGWRITER CIRCLE •••

with NANCY SCOTT and a TBA songwriter!

Friday June 13, 6:30 pm

Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe

5001 E Ben White Blvd, Austin, TX 78744

512.444.2020

••• TANGLEWOOD HOUSE CONCERT – SAN MARCOS •••

with IKE EICHENBERG!

Saturday, June 14 begins with a potluck at 6 pm

Suggested donation $15

Seating is limited so RSVP for info to:

trweinberg@yahoo.com or joannagel@yahoo.com

Directions to the house concert will be sent.

A beautiful house for a concert, an amazing potluck beforehand

and a wonderful community of folks!

••• WORDSTRING OUROBOROS  – AUSTIN •••

with DAVID JEWELL!

Music, Spoken Word, Sonic Surprise and special guests!

Sunday June 15, 7 pm

Hyde Park Theatre, 511 West 43rd St.

(a half-block east of Guadalupe St.)

Quite the meeting of mindhearts and otherwise

in the hallowed HPT space.

Your continued prescence, part of the bloodflow mindkythe and musicalogica that always and evre exudes through every pore and vessel is muchly appreciated. These lives and times get stranger and more incredible with each new breathing. The dice are always rolling.

The news page on my website is updated to stay current and I'm doing my best to keep the "brian QTN" Facebook page updated too. "Like" the page and click "Get Notifications" and my posts will show up on your wall. It can't collect "friends", but anyone can share news there, post pics and vids and say howdy (always did figure I'm kinda off the wall...).

Everpresently and effevescently,

I remain

Your Corn Forest Pundit
bq

Year of the Horse and Groat Clusters Concert Saturday February 15 at 8 pm

Last year hasn't slowed down much yet and quite the spin cycle it's been. I've lotsa news to tell, but it will all have to wait.

Maybe I'll stop eating for awhile and save time from itself when nobody else was looking. Besides, whenever I fast, I slow.

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm

and... there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.

Now for the rumours behind the news....

QTN's December News

Howdy and welcome to this multiversal mindheart already in process!

A most propitious time of year it is with change hanging in the balance and patience always a fine idea. A busy blurry autumn in the midwest it was with lots of new places to sing and great visits with folks from many layers of my being and time.

I had the delicious and amazing pleasure of working with the cream of Portland's musical community recently to present a reenactment of The Band's farewell gig originally on Thanksgiving weekend 37 years ago. To sing with a huge group, a nine piece horn section and all the superb players is quite a thrill. Now musical friends have posted the tune I sang on youtube so watch it pasted below. Turn it up so you know it's got 100% soul...

Eugene's Holiday Market produced a television and radio spot using one of my tunes from Guitarred and Feathered for a soundtrack. Watch it in all its gloriosity here.

Laying low for the winter I am thinking about 2014. There are new places I'd like to play next year and I'm setting my squinted ears on completing another full length recording. I am creating fundage for it all and there are several ways you can contribute if you are so inclined.

I've finally set up a Paypal link under the email address QTNZYME (at)yahoo (dot)com. Some say it is easier than writing a check, making a money order or finding an envelope and stamps although I still love to use and receive postal mail. You can order these fun projects or any of my other CDs this way to as well as by postal mail. Specify what titles you are ordering and how many copies you want and they will mailed to you nearly instantaneously.

Here's a list of what's new:

• QTNTFYOCF, Live at the Oregon Country Fair, is a limited-pressing 11 song CD with the ever-entertaining QBand live at one of the most amazing human gatherings I've ever been a part of made to celebrate my 25th year of playing there! There's waylotsa energy and crackly fun in these performances including a off- the-wall version of the anagram song Three Little Letters, QTN favourites and heretofore unreleased songs too. QBand musicians include Lewi Longmire, Jason Montgomery, Tim Heaton, Oliver Steck, Jeff Hobbs, Adam East and Kris Deelane and others.

This year I've printed download cards made of recycled shredded junk mail and embedded with wildflower seeds for hard-to-find QTN music. Just enter the code printed on the back at the bandcamp website, download tracks then put the card in some dirt in a flower pot and voila! Flowers will be growing in your house! The cards make great gifts for you and other music lovers on your list.

For now, there are two different cards:

• Guitarred and Feathered, out of stock for now, download links to CD-quality sound files much much better than the ones available on iTunes. 10 tracks for $11 postage paid.

• My long out-of-print 45 with Food, The Mess Age and a rocking bonus track Ride Out are on a download card too; three high-res danceable QTN songs for $5 postage paid.

This email address works both ways so you can always write to me here. "Like" the QTN Facebook page here and post messages to my wall if you'd like to send word that way. (Email through this EFN address is always best as FB mail doesn't always work since I never finished filling out the profile.) Your feedback and communication is always welcome.

Careening into the Solstice we be, with graces intact and a burgeoning festive season upon this part of the whirl. My heart visits you and I thank you for all the wonderful ways we continue to interface and communicate. Here's to the new ear that is rapidly steamrolling thisaways. May we all perpetuate peaceful ways and listen carefully to the song of what we are evolving into.

Thank you.

Your corn forest pundit,
bq




Turn it up and watch it full screen. A great band and horn section plays The Band. Video by Cass Wild.

Brian Cutean falls into Harvest in the Heartland

Grovefest 2013 photo by Jano Brindisi

Here comes another QTN spin playing music in the Midwest. There's a heron in front of the moon and the rains have begun here so it must be time to wing East. Lotsa fun places to play here and I am open to more houseconcerts, last minute booking ideas etc. so spread the word and bring your friends!

♫♪♫•*♪♫•*¨*•.♪♫ BRIAN CUTEAN *♪♫•*¨*♪♫•*¨*•.♪
 HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND
CONCERTS 2013

•• SATURDAY OCTOBER 5 • 3 pm ••
SPOO WILLOUGHBY LOW-DOWN
FARM-OUT HOE DOWN AND CORN BOIL WITH
MUSIC FROM VERNON TONGES AND BRIAN QTN
A potluck picnic and music affair, bring what you wish to burn
on the grill or a side dish to go with the corn.
They provide butter, salt and a several dozen ears of corn.
PAUL HENRY'S ART GALLERY, 416 Sibley St., Hammond, IN 46320 • 219.678.5015


•• SUNDAY OCTOBER 6 • GROVEFEST ••
GLENVIEW IL
My stage set is 11:55 am and later on at 2:45 pm in the Kennicott Courtyard.

I've played this fest 15 + years and IT'S STILL FUN.
Music, crafts, food and history outdoors on a golden autumn day and all ages are welcome.
The Grove National Historic Landmark is at 1421 Milwaukee Ave.
Glenview, IL 60025  •  847.299.6096


•• FRIDAY OCTOBER 11 • THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH ••
CHICAGO IL
The 2nd Friday Molly's Café on Floor 3 1/2 (not wheelchair accessible) at 7:30 pm
A gorgeous old building and a caring community. All ages welcome.
941 W. Lawrence Ave. in Uptown – just west of Lake Shore Dr.
East of Red Line at Lawrence
www.peopleschurchchicago.org/jazz.htm


•• FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 • GALLERY CONCERT •• THE ARK GALLERY • SAUGATUCK, MI    7:30 pm
An evening of two sets in this unique space of art and beauty. 

Not wheechair accessible as there is a flight of stairs. Sliding scale $5 - $15
No one turned away for lack of $.  All ages are welcome.
6248 Blue Star Highway, Saugatuck, MI 49453 

on the outskirts of Saugatuck  •  269.857.4210
www.marciaperrystudio.wix.com/mperry


•• SATURDAY OCTOBER 19 • GRFAS CONCERT ••
GRAND RAPIDS, MI  8 pm
My first time to play for Grand Rivers Folk Arts. 

I've heard many fine things about the series and the people.
Tickets: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Student w/ID,
$10, 2nd student free $9 Members, $3 2-12 year olds.
Wealthy Theatre Annex, 1110 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Advance tickets and info at 616.246.6468 or 616.307.0883

www.grfolkarts.org


*¨* JUST ADDED *¨*
•• TUESDAY OCTOBER 22 • LIVE ON WDCB's FOLK FESTIVAL ••
8 pm
A fun and fine weekly acoustic music radio show on WDCB hosted by Lilli Kuzma
 I sing and talk from 8-ish to 8:30-ish Chicago time.
Listen in online at wdcb.org.


•• SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 • THE LISTENING ROOM AT THE TWISTED Q ••
HOMEWOOD, IL   8 pm
A new listening room space in Homewood with weekly music and all kinds of food.
A good idea to make reservations for seats. $8
2053 Ridge Road, Homewood, Illinois 60430 • 708.957.8899
www.facebook.com/pages/Twisted-Q-Barbeque/432477753495236

•• FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 • QTN WORDLESS • RIVER MUSIC EXPERIENCE •• 

NOON ON THE COMMUNITY STAGE
An hourlong wordless lunchtime concert in Davenport, Iowa
Free and all ages welcome
129 Main St. Davenport, IA 52801 • 563.326.1333

 www.rivermusicexperience.org

•• SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 at PARISH HOUSE COFFEEHOUSE ••
ROCK ISLAND, IL   7 pm
Two QTN sets and opener Chris Dunn in the beautiful Parish House. I look forward to playing this place each year and it's always a delight to hear Chris.
The space is wonderful and all ages are welcome. NOT A CHURCH EVENT
First Lutheran Rock Island  1620 20th St., Rock Island, IL 61201 • 309.788.9661


•• SATURDAY NOV 16... THE BUZZ CAFE ••

OAK PARK, IL  6:30 pm
Sharing the evening with the one and only JANO BRINDISI!
The Buzz is a small all-ages venue close to my new nephew Charlie's home so I'll get to see him too! A bountiful harvest of song and JANO!
905 S. Lombard Ave, Oak Park, IL. 60304  •  708.524.2899 

www.thebuzzcafe.com