QTN's GOING THROUGH TEXAS WITHDRAWL 2016

It's that time of the year suddenly somehow!

That means I'ma headin down to the Hill Country for another round of visits, QTN concerts, late night Tex Mex food and and the rolling hills of whatever is left of that most beloved virtual rurality. Sun, sky and southwestern birds will all be most welcome to these Northwet behind the ears.

This last year has been a long un and I'm bringing a new CD with me, the sound of photosynthesis. I barely had time to play a proper CD release anywhere last year due to other circumstances so I put this year's date on the disc and NOW is the time. Order this new music directly from me via brianQTN.bandcamp.com in either CD copy with fabulous art, poster and lyrics or as downloadable high res audio files. Stream and listen to whole songs too. If you'd rather send a check or money order and order that way, just drop me a line and I'll send you an address to mail to.

You can also get a copy directly from me at a live music gig (there are several listed below coming up soon so save the dates) or out at the 45th Kerrville Folk Festival where I will be as well.

Lotsa precarious whew whoa and what th-?! this last year and I am very much looking forward to seeing as many of my Texas peops as possible. If you'd like to host a QTN houseconcert or hire me for an evening of wordless guitar music during May or June, I'm open to all that too.

Once again, I am leaving my 200,000+ mile Toyota truck in Oregon and that means I am on the lookout for a street legal vehicle I may be able to borrow while I am in the Austin/San Marcos area. Of course, the endibilities are posstless....

Here are dates and figs where I'll be sangin soon for your raisin consciousness. Bulletins as they occur, as they say and more will be added soon. Updates on my newspage QTNRG.blogspot.com

SATURDAY MAY 7 - Linda Allen's Fine Foods in Wimberley with Ike Eichenberg. 6:30 to 9 pm. A welcome return to a special town I went through often back in the 90s. The food is amazing and the people are great. Sit under the trees with a fine buncha folks eating a fine buncha Linda's food. 500 FM 2325, Wimberley, Texas 78676 512.847.5464

FRIDAY MAY 13 - Patsy's Cowgirl Café Songwriter Circle with Nancy Scott, Scooter Pearce and Jon Emery. This annual event is a songpull of the highest quality! 6:30 - 9 at 5001 E Ben White Blvd. Austin, TX 78741/512.444.2020

SUNDAY MAY 15 - QTN CD Release Concert at Radio Coffee and Beer with special guests and amazing musical friends. Celebrate the release of The Sound of Photosynthesis. Music begins at 8 pm. Two sets for all ages. Don't miss this one. 4208 Manchaca Rd. Austin, TX 78704

THURSDAY MAY 21 – JUNE 8 - The 44th Kerrville Folk Festival. I'll be there 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 people you may be friends with for the rest of your life.

More to come with last minute add ons and post-Kerr spontenacities.

Can't wait to see you soon!
Your corn forest pundit,
bq

April in Eugene

Hello folks!
I have been home less this winter than many even though I am everywhere I need to be. Sure am glad to be here for a few weeks to see the trillium in my yard, feed the birds and watch the bees. It is a pleasure and a much needed moment out of time after way too much zooming around lately. Suddenly we find ourselves buzzing in the boing of Spring again  and I'm excited about these upcoming concerts and for another Texas trip looming large this May.

My new recording, The Sound of Photosynthesis, is getting national airplay and many orders and fun letter responses. Listen to tracks online by clicking the title above and then order a CD for your house and car. You'll be glad you did.

This Tsunami concert next Saturday is the first of a two part record release celebration, the other taking place later this summer. I feel very fortunate for having a life that allows me to sing and play music I find. I thank you for signing up for these newsy bits that float through our collective aeythyrs. Here's the gig details:

  Brian Cutean & Nick Jaina's 
Evening of Words and Music

Saturday April 16, 8 pm

Tsunami Books/ 2585 Willamette

Sliding scale tickets $5 – infinitude

nickjaina.com

brianQTN.Bandcamp.com

Saturday's Tsunami gig features a set apiece from me and from Nick Jaina. I've known Nick for many years and have long been a fan of his rich, contemplative musical recordings. All are a songwriter journey in the most splendicious way and he also has a new book out now, up for an Oregon Book Award and for good reason – it is powerful, focused and waylotsa fun to read. It takes you places and brings you back and that is no small thing these days.

We would love to play our songs for you and Tsunami Books is one of the best places for a close-up intimate show like this.  

A Valentine's Street Date?

Long time no send you spelling, words or news...
My greets from this burgeoning New Ear to you.

Finally back in Oregon after a very long Wood Goat year and hoping the 2016 Fire Monkey will be something a bit more playful.

So many unbelievable things happened last year and I sure am glad for a space to process awhile. One of the most best and most amazing things was the mix, master and manufacture of a new QTN record appropriately titled the sound of photosynthesis.

It's here! A New Ear and a new QTN album to hear!

Little did I know when I booked a week at Destination Universe (the studio with the most robots and science fiction i've seen) and jumped in with my musician friends that the world would forever be so deeply rearranged and just at the most appropriate moment too.

A Valentine Street Date?

That's the day the sound of photosynthesis will be streamable as a whole album via this Bandcamp page. Each week until February 14, a different tune from the album will be added to the tunes already posted. Starting today you can hear Next Big Thing with me, Jason Montgomery, Lewi Longmire, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee and Simon Lucas. Start your day with a new QTN tune up.

Check in with my newspage here and bookmark the link for updates to be notified each week. If you 'Like' the QTN FB page (don't forget to click 'Get Notifications'), you'll receive a link to each week's new track and updates. The street date is six weeks away, but you don't have to wait to order the new album. It's already available for downloading and you can order a physical CD too via Bandcamp right now – at this very moment.

Will you be my Valentine Street Date?

I need help getting the word out so tell friends and share the Bandcamp link wherever you can. Streamlisten whole tunes or download album-quality files or mp3s. A limited run vinyl version of the album is coming too so get orders in early for that. The reference lacquer we cut sounds amazing on a real stereo turntable...

Monkey will prevail one way or another this next year and that's the perfect excuse for a mischievous celebration to send this new record out into the world and into the infinite aeythyrs. Monkey Year begins February 8, Valentine's on the 14th... And the many petalled tale tells the road less taken... The point is taken, the beast is dead, the fluff, as they say, goes up your nose.

Your thoughtfulkind letters of the past year have been big soulheartfood and I thank you.

May you know that there's always a heart that beats inside your own.

Your corn forest pundit
bq

••• QTN in December •••

••• Brian QTN in December •••

THE WORDLESS SOLSTICE

Monday December 21, 7 pm
Tsunami Books, 2525 Willamette
It’s a musical break from the holiday hoopla and a chance to tune into what else the turn of the season is all about. The houselights are dimmed and a stream of wordless guitar surges with two hands, six strings, wound wire and wood.
Bring a candle, friends and your best intentions for 2016. A non-perishable food item for the Food Bank is welcome too and will go a long way for someone in need. All ages are welcome.

$5 suggested though no one will be turned away for lack of $$ or food.

EUGENE HOLIDAY MARKET

Tuesday December 22, 1:45 pm
on the Food Court Stage with special guests
I've just posted daybroughtlove, a track from The Sound of Photosynthesis at
brianqtn.bandcamp.com/track/daybroughtlove
Download the track and the entire CD will be postally mailed to you nearly instantaneously and a uniformed, uninformed government employee will deliver it
directly to your home just in time for your Saturnalian celebrations.

Take a moment and a breath and squint yer ears.

BRUCEAPALOOZA

A great reason to be in Michigan next weekend and a chance to Ruin your Decor!

QTN September in Oregon

Poster photo by Karyn Raman

Also I'll be singing for a set at Eugene Saturday Market, Saturday September 19 at 1 pm!

QTN at River Road House Concerts

Brian QTN's Summer On the Upper Left

Hi folks!

A crazy busy zoom from Texas to here following an unprecedented Kerrville Fest. Lotsa fun shows to play, so many people I love to see and visit, and a new QTN album delivered to me during Fest. It's already been hatched thanks to preorders and it's finding its way into the whirlybob even if its official release date is next year

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To all who've preordered The Sound of Photosynthesis, many thanks. Your CDs are zooming postally to you soon as I get back to where I once belongated to in a few days. Get em hot off the presses at these shows too. Mail order? Just click the title and read more...

Oregon Country Fair is nearly here, life in the Fest lane once again, this time Upper Left style. I'll be singing to you at one of these places soon I'm thinkin...

••• OREGON COUNTRY FAIR JULY 10, 11 & 12 •••
The QBand this year sounds like it's Lewi Longmire, Jason Montgomery, Michael MacLeod,
Alan Eckert and special spontenacious guests.
We have three official sets (two for daytime fairgoers and one in the wee)
FRIDAY   JULY 10   BLUE MOON 3:30 pm 
Listen to this set live at KRVM.org at 3:30 pm Pacific time
SUNDAY  JULY 12   SHADY GROVE 4:45 pm

(and for the campers...)
SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING
1:30 am at THE RITZ
oregoncountryfair.org

Then, of course there's:
••• WEDS. JULY 15 – SCOBERT PARK EUGENE – 7 pm •••
The annual exhale concert! Picnics, kids, dogs, families and cookies encouraged.

••• THURS. JULY 16 – SAM BOND'S GARAGE EUGENE – 9 pm •••
A very special musical evening with sets from QTN,
GRACE PARK of THE DEER and AMY SUE BERLIN from Austin, Texas!
sambonds.com

••• FRI. JULY 24 – QTNSTRUMENTAL WORDLESS GUITAR •••
New Seasons's Happy Valley; 15861 SE Happy Valley Town Cntr. Dr.
 5 to 7 pm. Free. All ages welcome!

••• WED. AUGUST 19 – 8 pm •••
CARAVAN TINY HOUSE HOTEL CONCERT
5009 NE 11th Ave. 97211 (across from Alberta St. Pub)
503.288.5225/tinyhousehotel.com

Here's a new Youtube vid for you filmed by KUTX in Austin, Texas a few weeks back of me singing one of the tunes from the new album. I did a secret show with Raina Rose and Big Thief,
and one of my favourite live shows in a long while. Click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NoVeEKNQj0

Hot veggie links:

QTNRG.org

brianqtn.bandcamp.com

facebook.com/pages/Brian-QTN/21511428126

QTN's TEXAS WITHDRAWL 2015 PART TWO

I'm just back from this year's Kerrville Fest and am behind on sleep but the music was inspiring and fabulous. It's going to be a busy weeks of shows and a speedy return to Oregon early next week. My new album, The Sound of Photosynthesis arrived during Kerrville too so they'll be available at these shows. Come get your copy hot off the patootie press.

Here's this weeks schedule of gigs and gogs.

• TUESDAY JUNE 9 - Secret Show.... SHHHH!  Buck Meek, Adrianne Lenker, me and Raina Rose are singing beginning at 9 pm in the hidden fields of Zilker Park. The details say: "The show is going to start at 9 pm on the dark side of those cliffs in the middle of the giant field at Zilker where ACL is held."

Hope that helps some...

• THURSDAY JUNE 11 - TANTRA COFFEEHOUSE IN SAN MARCOS along with The Deer, Adrianne and Buck's group Big Thief beginning at 6:30 pm and if that isn't enough, I'm sure other special guests will be abounding. Tell all your friends. 217 W. Hopkins, San Marcos 512.558.2233 tantracoffee.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/events/106708036329032

• SATURDAY JUNE 13 - ART IN THE SQUARE IN SAN MARCOS, 3:15 pm outside with all the art booths.

• SUNDAY JUNE 14 - HOUSE CONCERT, HYDE PARK, AUSTIN. The last of this year's Texas concert batch: two QTN sets beginning early at 7 pm. RSVP for address and info. Seating is limited, RSVP necessary.

See you suddenly. Thanks to all of you who have preordered the new album.

Your corn forest pundit,
bq

Brian Cutean's Goin Through Texas Withdrawl Tour 2015

Suddenly it's time again for another journey to the heart of central Texas for visiting, concerts, late night food and friends. I'm not sure how it got to be May already but time is often a surprise these days. It is spring, a new QTN album is heading thisaway and folks have been preordering like crazy, a good sign to me. A preview track and preorder info here.

Here's the first bunch of fun places I'll be sangin at real soon and there's more to come. Send me your email info and I'll put you on the list for updates. Contact me to book a show where you are. Email:
QTNZYME (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Fabulous poster by Grace Park of The Deer

FRIDAY MAY 8 - Patsy's Cowgirl Café Songwriter Circle with Nancy Scott, Scooter Pearce and Jon Emery. Last time we did this it sure was fun. A songpull of the highest quality! 6:30 - 9 at 5001 E Ben White Blvd. Austin, TX 78741/512.444.2020

SUNDAY MAY 10 - QTN Mother's Day Concert at Radio Coffee and Beer with guests and amazing friends. Music begins at 8 pm. Two sets so bring your mom. Don't miss this one. 4208 Manchaca Rd. Austin, TX 78704 radiocoffeeandbeer.com

THURSDAY MAY 14 - Linda Allen's Fine Foods in Wimberley with Ike Eichenberg 6:30 to 9 pm. A welcome return to a special town I went through often back in the 90s. I hear the food is amazing and I know the people are great. 500 FM 2325, Wimberley, Texas 78676 512.847.5464 lindasfinefoods.com

THURSDAY MAY 21 – JUNE 8 - The 44th Kerrville Folk Festival. I'll be there 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 people you may be friends with for the rest of your life.

TUESDAY JUNE 9 - Secret Show in Austin with Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek....
Inquire within...

THURSDAY JUNE 11 - Tantra Coffeehouse in San Marcos QTN with The Deer and Big Thief (featuring Buck Meek and Adrianne Lenker! Music begins at 6:30 pm. Join the San Martians for this big fun. 217 W. Hopkins, San Marcos 512.558.2233 tantracoffee.blogspot.com