Brad Armstrong fronted the Birmingham, AL band, 13ghosts, for fifteen years. He currently lives in upstate New York with his family. He has been a contributing songwriter and guitarist with Dexateens since 2009, and often plays guitar for Maria Taylor (of Azure Ray). His songs have been placed in several television shows, including Nashville and Kingdom. In 2018, Cornelius Chapel reissued his first solo record, 2016’s "Empire," and released his second, "I Got No Place Remembers Me," in April 2019. https://open.spotify.com/artist/6g2a7XkravkYNQdZg27EFB?si=14XlgVgpRgqLLTWNm2letw Zak Trojano is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a finger-style guitar player hailing from New Hampshire. Co-founding the much acclaimed folk trio Rusty Belle in 2006, Trojano has also appeared on records by Chris Smither, Jeffrey Foucault, Peter Mulvey and Chris Pureka. https://soundcloud.com/ZAK-TROJANO As always, 100% of the door is given to the performers. BRING CASH FOR THE ARTISTS!

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty Dog. Books are available for purchase and signing. AMY RIGBY’s most recent album The Old Guys was voted one of the top 100 albums of 2018 in the Pazz & Jop US music critics’ poll. Her 2019 memoir Girl to City follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitué and fledgling musician with bands Last Roundup and the Shams to cult singer-songwriter who caused a sensation with debut solo album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. When she isn’t touring, she pours beer and sells books at the Spotty Dog in Hudson. HALLIE GOODMAN is a writer, editor and content strategist in Hudson, New York where she co-founded Volume Reading and Music Series, and founded Volume Workshops. Her writing has appeared in Glamour Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Redbook Magazine, and the journal Hunger Mountain. A recent essay was nominated for a Pushcart and listed as "notable" in this year's Best American Essays anthology. She is a MacDowell Colony and NYFA MARK fellow. Hallie holds a GED and an MFA. LEE ANN BROWN is a poet, curator, editor, composer, and singer of neo-hymns and ballads. Recent publications include a poem in the Literary Fieldguide to Southern Appalachia and Other Archer. Recent fellowships and awards include the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, the Lord Nose Award and Acker Award. She is founding editrix of Tender Buttons Press, curates events through Torn Page, and is a professor at St. John's University in New York City. When filmmaker LYNNE SACHS turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each poem investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs’s life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe. Published by Tender Buttons Press, Year by Year juxtaposes Sachs’s finished poems, which move from her birth in 1961 to her half-century marker in 2011, with her original hand-written first drafts. Lynne received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Followed by a set from returning fave Stem Christie (aka Jacqueline Goss). "Two Hudson writers seem to have found a new formula, turning the traditional reading into a party celebrating the best in new lit." --Jamie Larson, Rural Intelligence "Two 'dorks' pump up the Volume in Hudson, NY. Reclusive literati come out and play in a converted firehouse on the second Saturday of every month." --Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle www.facebook.com/volumehudson

Join us for The Spotty Dog Trivia Night. Since 2006, we've held this bi-weekly trivia event. Teams of up to four people compete against each other over four rounds of 15 questions, a worksheet of (usually) 20 questions, and four bonus questions. The winning team gets their bar tab on the house. Anyone can play. See you there!

Featuring Todd Ludwig, Ifetayo Cobbins, Izzygr, Moon Fruit (DJ set) and Kulton!

Olivia Quillio With the ability to silence a room Quillio’s voice soars while singing about the heartache and triumph of love. Known for her musical depth, soporific vocals and poignant, humorous banter - Quillio stands apart by making her truth known, no matter how vulnerable. Currently she is recording her third album, Earthside. Greens jambient/nu country out of troy, ny

Join us for The Spotty Dog Trivia Night. Since 2006, we've held this bi-weekly trivia event. Teams of up to four people compete against each other over four rounds of 15 questions, a worksheet of (usually) 20 questions, and four bonus questions. The winning team gets their bar tab on the house. Anyone can play. See you there!