Weddings and Funerals
Album, 2023. Eleven songs, including “Last Call,” “Lazy Boy Rocker,” and “Jim’s Grave.”
Writer, graphic designer, and working musician. Brett Gadbois has written more than 400 songs and the children’s novels The Cellar Door and Into the Painting. He lives near Seattle and still plays piano, reads aloud, and visits schools.
The former Joomla site is offline. This page restores the public introduction, using graphics recovered from the Internet Archive.
Music
At the piano
Saxophone in a western swing band, clarinet in a jazz duet, then songs at the piano: jug bands, bar bands, country, and R&B, from coffeehouses to the Palace Theater in Los Angeles.
Stories
The Cellar Door
A children’s novel written after years of reading the classics aloud. Cover art from the former site.
Into the Painting
The sequel. Short fiction has also appeared in literary journals; “Perfect,” in Lalitamba, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
School visits
Readings and visits for teachers, librarians, and students, with drawings and letters from classrooms on the original site.
About
Born in Kankakee, Illinois, in the middle of the twentieth century, and raised in Minnesota. The childhood on the old site was railroad tracks, painted turtles, arrowheads, and books paid for by the quarter.
Music came next, then fiction: an adult novel and more than fifty short stories. After a son arrived, the reading list turned to The Wind in the Willows, The Wizard of Oz, and Narnia, and from that came the children’s books.
Graphic design has been the day work. Gardening, cooking, and Zen practice fill the rest. Some evenings are still a coffeehouse set, father and son.
Contact
Poulsbo, Washington 98370
Telephone: 206-842-6295