With Andy Clausen, Thatcher Keats, Richard Loranger, Jason Tallon, & Pamela Twining reading from their recent work.

Live Jazz at The Spotty Dog returns with... Otto Hauser - drums Mark Dzuiba - guitar Terence Murren - bass Stuart Quimby - flute

Wes Swing is a singer, cellist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Virginia. Swing's style of composition draws on classical, folk and alternative influences to create a "rich and lilting soundscape” of "beautifully swelling cello-folk." In live performance he loops his cello and violin to create deeply enveloping string sections to which "Swing demonstrates his vocal prowess with delicate intonation," delivering lyrics imbued with poetry. The new full-length album and the heart... [2017] is an ambitious blend of Swing's signature chamber-pop songwriting with analog electronics produced by Paul Curreri. Using deliberately sparse and stark instrumentation, the album offers stunning vocal performances on "Sing To Me" and "Mirrors." These sections of intimate and personal performance transition beautifully into electronic escapades and flourishing full-band crescendos. With this album, Swing takes another step into the avant-garde of alternative folk. Through a Fogged Glass, Wes Swing's debut album, is a landscape of sound written and arranged as one complete work, composed in a cabin in the woods of Virginia's Nelson County. Wes Swing and his band have toured throughout the USA and Europe to support the release of Through a Fogged Glass. Songs such as "Lullaby" and "Instrumental 1" are featured regularly on National Public Radio programs [Marketplace, On Being, The Story] and by several modern dance companies. Wes Swing's musical journey began as a four-year-old violinist. He developed an early appreciation for classical music, and later found his true musical love in playing and composing for cello while studying Latin at university. After graduating with a Latin degree, Wes taught for three years before quitting his teaching job and turning to music full time. A love of the classics comes through in his imagist lyrics and arrangements. He is currently planning the release and tour of Europe in support of his new album, and writing a book of short stories.

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Find us every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty Dog Books and Ale in Hudson, NY. Tobias Carroll is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn. He is the author of the novel Reel (Rare Bird Books) and the short story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms). His writing has appeared in Tin House, Rolling Stone, Hazlitt, Men's Journal, and elsewhere. Sheela Clary is a Moth StorySlam winner, and co-host of Fuel Stories, a storytelling series in Great Barrington. Her articles and essays have appeared in the Berkshire Edge and Numero Cinq, while letters to the editor have been published by the New Yorker. Gabriel Squailia studied storytelling and literature in India, Europe, and the Middle East before settling in the Berkshires with their partner and daughter. Squailia's first novel, Dead Boys, was published by Talos Press in 2015, and his second, Viscera, came out in October. Followed by book signing and Special Guest DJ Stephen Bluhm.

Daniel Bachman was born in 1989 and is a guitar player currently living in Virginia. Alexander Turnquist is an American guitarist and composer born in 1988 in Idaho. He has released original albums on the VHF record label as well as limited released titles on the Kning Disk imprint and Textura record label. Turnquist's has had comparisons to guitarists Jack Rose, Alex De Grassi, Kaki King, and James Blackshaw as well as contemporary composer Philip Glass. (Photo by Daniel Bachman)