Enjoy our free monthly concert series with top Portland musicians! Pack a lunch or stop by one of the many pods at 24th and Glisan, bring your food in (no pork or shellfish please) and come and hear the music! Small concerts that are semi-acoustic and always enlivening. All are welcome. What better thing is there to do on a Friday afternoon?!
Oregon songpoet and wordsmith musician Brian QTN, writes songs with offbeat and touching lyrical observations on the socialography of the human condition. He has toured with spirit and whimsy all over these United States for many years sharing the stage with BIg Thief, Adrianne Lenker, Shawn Phillips, Willy Porter, Butch Hancock, Tracy Grammer, Peter Wilde, Steve Fisher, Chris Chandler and many others
A 37 year veteran of the Oregon Country Fair and a 45 year mainstay of the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, QTN songs are filled with wordplay and meta-fables that roll off the tongue, folky jazz melodies with an Alt-Roma blues beat and string popping, wordless guitar stylings. His story-songs are laughable, affable, unforgettable doorways into another realm and his presentation is comfortable and unpredictable. His music streams at brianQTN.bandcamp.com
The media has called him “...the Tom Robbins of folk music" (The Carbondale Flipside); "Playful, energetic and honest." (The Oregonian); "An unclassifiable and irreverent acoustic performer..." (Austin Chronicle); "One of our leading contemporary songsmiths and music makers" (Victory Music Review); "An adept storyteller ...[whose] lyrics run the gamut of personal reflection to commentary on social issues" (Folkwax); "Introspective, satirical, delightfully absurd and always acoustically gentle to the ears..." (Austin Statesman); “Clever. quirky, lyrics that touch on deeper levels of being human...” (Hipfish); "A panoply of anomalous phenomena.” (Jim Larrance, CutUp Sound); and "a melodious punster who brings grins to his listener's lips and vagrant thoughts to their stirred-up minds." (Dave Johnson, Southeast Examiner)
FREE. No RSVP needed.