Join Stuart Quimby, Otto Hauser, Terence Murren, and Mark Dzubia for an intimate evening of jazz.

Two summers back Green on Red's Dan Stuart and Go To Blazes' Tom Heyman met up in Austin and gigged their way to San Francisco. They hardly knew each other and it was a last minute thing but worked out fine despite the conventional wisdom that venues must be booked six months to a year in advance. Foregoing the normal protocol, Stuart and Heyman picked up the phone and simply called folks asking for shows. Some they knew, others were friends of friends, as well as complete strangers including a 6 foot 6 one-eyed cowboy and reality TV star from Marfa by way of Baltimore. Since then they hustled through Europe for a month with co-conspirator Fernando Viciconte as well as a recent jaunt up to the Pacific Northwest, also on the fly. The point being that as sad as the music industry currently is, there are still people out there who want to keep live music going, and who will help songwriters like Stuart and Heyman do their thing and without the usual caveats and risk adverse admonitions... kinda like the original punk days or maybe even the 60's folk scene that came before. This time around, Stuart and Heyman will be traveling from Maine to Manhattan looking for the little things that stand out and the big things that don't, cozy diners and cheap hotels, pawnshops and record stores, the habitual haunts of musicians everywhere. Come evening they'll tune their guitars and play songs old and new, telling stories gleaned from decades in what was once known as the music business, but what is now simply referred to as "the life"... just like the grifters, gamblers and prostitutes of old. No matter, they say the best things in this world are if not exactly free, then available for pennies on the dollar, just like Stuart and Heyman. Dan Stuart is a songwriter, author, occasional journalist and habitual expat currently residing in Mexico City. He was a founding member of critically acclaimed Green on Red with Chuck Prophet and one half of Danny & Dusty with Steve Wynn in the 80's before leaving the music business in 1995 for a decade and a half. His comeback record in 2012 has the same title as his 2014 false memoir: The Deliverance of Marlowe Billings, both available through Cadiz Music, London. His latest record, Marlowe's Revenge (recorded with Mexico City's Twin Tones) was released February 2016 on Cadiz Music in UK & Europe and on Fluff & Gravy Records (Portland) in the Americas. Tom Heyman is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member of the beloved, Philadelphia based roots rock band Go To Blazes who released 5 LPs and toured the US and Europe extensively between 1988 and 1997. After relocating to San Francisco in 1998, he began working as a sideman, touring and recording with artists such as Alejandro Escovedo and John Doe, including a 3 year stint in Chuck Prophet’s band. Discovering his voice as a solo artist and bandleader, songs from his 2006 release Deliver Me were featured in a number of TV shows including “True Blood," “Damages” and “Justified," as well as the feature film “Tammy”. His most recent record, That Cool Blue Feeling was critically acclaimed at home and abroad, receiving 4 stars in Mojo magazine.

Prodigal daughter of Hudson's elusive underground returns for a demonstration of her newly acquired Midwestern accent. Omkar Lewis, originally scheduled to perform on the bill tonight, is recovering from serious injuries. The artists ad The Spotty Dog will be donating a portion of the proceeds to Omkar. Joined by fellow cosmic musical freaks Silent Isle (Anastasia Clark--Another Prodigal Daughter of Hudson) and Ursula Kennedy (NYC).

Trummors is the project of Taos, NM-based (formally West Saugerties/ NYC) musicians Dave Lerner and Anne Cunningham. Lerner who appeared with Ted Leo & the Pharmacists for many years, plays guitar and sings, while Cunningham also contributes vocals along with harmonium. Performing songs from their new LP release "Headlands" which draws inspiration from enduring archetypes of the American West. They play songs of rambling misadventure and fleeting freedom with the occasional bracing dose of reality and a signature easy 70's rural groove with sweet close-harmony vocals. Zachary Cale is a NYC based songwriter/musician originally hailing from the small town of Enon, Louisiana. His music ranges from lyrically driven balladry over American Primitive inspired guitar playing to Cosmic Country music and cerebral Folk Rock. In concert his melodically complex guitar playing has been compared to Neil Young and Bert Jansch with nods to pre-war Piedmont and Ragtime players such as Blind Willie McTell and Mississippi John Hurt. Gregg Skloff's scope has encompassed various forms and hybrids of rock, folk, jazz, chamber music, noise, sound-object installation, and non-idiomatic improvisation. Over the past decade, his solo efforts have largely inhabited the realm of minimal electro-acoustic ambient drone, heard to profound effect on albums such as "This Time The Ride Belongs To Us" (2014), The eye is the egg (2013), and "Ultraviolet Phase Transition Blues" (2012). Based in the Pacific Northwest since 1997, Gregg Skloff has played in ensembles led by Bhob Rainey, John Gruntfest, Urs Leimgruber, Moe! Staiano, Matana Roberts, and Gino Robair, among others. He has been a member of The Naked Future (also featuring bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso, pianist Thollem McDonas, and drummer John Niekrasz), whose album Gigantomachia was released by ESP-Disk’ in 2009. A resident of Astoria, OR since 2010, Gregg hosts the “And Otherness” program on Coast Community Radio, where his affinity for innovative, ethereal, and/or outré sounds has led writer Robert Ham to describe him as “one of the Oregon coast’s finest supporters of experimental music.”

Jessie Chaffee is the author of the debut novel Florence in Ecstasy (Unnamed Press, 2017). She was awarded a Fulbright grant to Italy to complete the novel. She lives in New York City and is an editor at Words Without Borders. Emma Smith-Stevens is the author of a novel, The Australian, and a forthcoming story collection, Greyhounds. Now, she is working on a memoir. Her writing has appeared in many publications including BOMB Magazine, Subtropics, and Conjunctions. She teaches with the Bard Prison Initiative. Mark Allen has contributed to The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, FourTwoNine, The Awl, and Vice, performed at Upright Citizen's Brigade, The Cutting Room, and 92Y Tribeca, and hosted his own show at WFMU, as well as the show Pitch! at Dixon Place. Followed by a playlist from DJ Holly Watson.

Since February, a small group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students dedicated their Monday/Tuesday afternoons to exploring poetry. Bridget Smith, a reading teacher at MCSIS, has had the pleasure of working with these inspiring, energetic, and creative students. Together, they read, listened to, and wrote poetry of all kinds. Students shared their work with the beloved author, Seymour Simon and visited Etsy's Hudson office to create collages inspired by the talented illustrator, Bryan Collier. Please join us to celebrate the students' hard work and creativity.

The Spotty Dog is pleased to be hosting a screening of Every Other Summer, Brendan Canty (of Fugazi) and Christoph Green's documentary film shot at 2013’s incarnation of the Solid Sound Festival. Featuring performances from Wilco, Neko Case, Yo La Tengo, The Dream Syndicate, Lucius, Foxygen, Sam Amidon, Sean Rowe, The Relatives and appearances from Reggie Watts, John Hodgman, Jen Kirkman and others, Every Other Summer offers a peek into the festival’s utopian vibe, and the positive transformative impact it has had on the small rust belt town of North Adams, MA. Festival organizers have been generous enough to offer some tickets to Solid Sound 2017 (with Wilco x2, Television, Kurt Vile and the Violaters, Robert Glasper Experiment, Big Thief, John Hodgman's Comedy Stage, and much more) to give away at the event, as well as some other Soild Sound merch, so put this on your calendar, folks! Do not miss it.

If you've missed Michael's Spotty events in the past, be prepared for original musical accompaniment to a PowerPoint slideshow featuring his new book. We think he brought his Theramin last time. In his follow-up to Unusual Creatures and Extraordinary People, with Curious Constructions you'll come face-to-face with 50 incredible structures, including: a fire-breathing octopus sculpture; the skateboard ramp you'd need to jump the Great Wall of China; a whole community of tree houses in Costa Rica; and a lifesize X-Wing Starfighter built of Legos. These and many more fascinating accounts of constructions both fantastically useful and gloriously unnecessary await inquisitive readers, aspiring engineers, and anyone who ever looked at a skyscraper and thought, "Yeah, but what if it had a roller coaster on top?" Books are available for signing, and make terrific gifts!