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

the sound of photosynthesis ~ coming soon to an ear theatre near you!

Hello bright beings of the heartmusic soul!
What's that sound? April? The year already a third past and finally hearing the boing of spring? Yes indeed and the sound is partly this QTNewsletter singing to you after the longest strangest winter I've ever experienced.

Thanks for signing up for news and for hanging in there with me. Thanks too for all your postal cards, letters, e notes and calls. The Northwet is on fast forward this year and everything that makes pollen is bursting into watery eyes all around. Send me your updated email address so we can stay in touch. Long time no write your way for sooo many reasons and there's much to tell.

I've heard folk look at email on their phones these days without much time for chatty fingers, parenthetical asides and runaway brains, so I'll do my best to tuck it in and keep it brief. I'm excited by the big news I have to share:

A NEW QTN RECORD/CD IS COMING!

We've just finished mixing a new QTN record/CD (8track cassette with dual sidebeams and a dot to dot puzzle built right in with all your daily requirements). I'm delighted by the way it all came together and the way it all sounds – ten glorious songs recorded with articulate, talented and expressive musical friends.

So what's it called?

Why, the sound of photosynthesis of course!

                        And believe you me, it really is.

So that's what that sound is...

cover ©2015 ila rose ilarose.com

This is a fun and spirited collection. The ten new tunes include a musical setting of an ee cummings poem, a duet with the bass wizard who performed with me for more than 30 years before leaving this swinging sphere and plenty more. Recorded in Portland, Eugene and Austin with nonpareil musician friends doing what they do best, the tunes have been mixed and mastered ALIVE and in 3D.

Manufacturing is the next step. Help me make CDs (and vinyl records?) happen by preordering your copy now for $15 each, shipping is included. Buy one for a friend too. Listen to one of the album's new songs here: (and use your earbuds or play it through good speakers so the bass comes through too) and preorder a CD right there on the same page. Click on the Buy Now link for instant Paypal or order by mail with check or money order. the sound of photosynthesis will ship hot off the press.

A peek at the cover art is coming soon too so bookmark this page and check back.

"Go postal" and order a copy by sending a check or money order made out to me  c/o 85444 Teague Loop, Eugene, OR 97401. Using the snail mail option may inspire flights of handwriting frenzy exchanges between us and that is a favourite thing to me, inveterate letter writer and reader I be.

Preordering is simple: no extensive email badgering from me, no last day flurry before the campaign runs out. You don't even have to remember you ordered it. [If the preorder response is soon, perhaps a limited run of real vinyl LPs too with big artwork and two sides (for those of you who like turnovers...).

This is all happening RIGHT NOW so let me hear from you. It's been 10 years somehow already since HeartheartheartH was unleashed and it feels mighty important to get this new QTN music into the brave new worldsphere ear at this swivelpivot time of our lives.

If you like Facebook, a link to the brian QTN page is below. Remember to select Get Notifications or you may not see updates. FB is strange that way. I think email is still the best way to get the word out.

Thanks for your ears all these years my dears.
I wouldn't be able to do this without you.

Your corn forest pundit,
bq

QTNRG.org
brianqtn.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/pages/Brian-QTN/21511428126

I'm Raybo

It comes from the lightsource that has no direction

unshadowed perfection illuminates mind 

As it was on the mountain, it is now in the meadow

just a half step ahead of what's rolling behind

From this moment to moment we've ceded to showmen

who've upstaged one another just for shining their stars 

Now the truth has been buried long before the main feature

you can't seem to reach her from your haunted snackbar

Friend, friend, til your thoughts meet the end

will it further depend on just letting it be

It's been gone long on a dream and a song

can it be that a home has been searching for me?

You are constantly stalking peripheral vision

like a god-given mission to invite it all in

How the thinnest of moments can begin all creation

with the slightest vibration to a watery skin

There are all things in one thing and the one thing in all things

there's just no thing like that thing outside of the one

and the name's not important to this endless assortment

I've called it the moon, I would call it the sun

Frail, frail hope and you bail

a hopefilling sail may keep finding more seeds

We've been gone long on a dream and a song

can it be that a home has been searching for me? 

"Searching for Me" by Raybo Novak

He's Raybo and a part of so many hearts. No one who's known him will ever be the same... Thank you Raybo for all you are.

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.