Stuart Quimby has at any one time been a Classical and Jazz Composer, Professional Musician (flute, baroque instruments, slendro, blues and chromatic harp, and vocalist), Music Teacher, Network Analyst and Designer, Security Consultant, Geometer, Lecturer on Childhood Education, Applied Mathematician, Toy Manufacturer and Designer, Chef, Programmer, Restaurateur, Mechanical Engineer,and General Fool. Quimby has studied with Richard Davis, Les Thimmig, Roscoe Mitchell, and Robert Dick among many others. An abbreviated list of his credits include stints with Luther Allison, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Paquito D’Rivera, Vassar Clements, his own quartet, M.2.Q., as well as several well-known classical ensembles. Quimby has recorded on numerous albums over the years in multiple genres as well. He has spent almost four decades studying psycho-acoustics – especially microtonal tunings, and designing/building experimental instruments – including a guitar with movable frets, and an organ that plays 43 notes per octave. His articles on these subjects have been published in national peer-reviewed journals. __ Tony Kieraldo is a freelance pianist, pen & ink artist, teacher, accompanist, composer and musical-director that lives in Hudson, NY. He has shared the stage and worked with Jacques d’Amboise, Bill Irwin, Tommy Stinson, Lil’ Buck, Bobby Previte, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marco Benevento, and Sarah Jessica Parker to name a few. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy and New England Conservatory before moving to NYC in 2003. At New England Conservatory he studied piano and composition with jazz legends, Danilo Perez, Fred Hersch, Rakalam Bob Moses and Bob Brookmeyer. He was recognized in Downbeat Magazine in 1999 for outstanding jazz piano performance and composition. Since then, he has spent ten years freelancing as a musical-director for two non-profit children’s dance companies National Dance Institute and Celebrate the Beat. Tony has recorded, performed, and toured internationally with various musical groups and performed genres of all kinds since 1998 including jazz, classical, rock, hip-hop, sufi, folk and avante garde. __ Terence Murren is a string bassist, electric bassist and guitarist. He studied classical string bass and composition with Sue Powell and Annea Lockwood at Vassar College. A jazz musician at heart he has studied bass with Tim Ferguson, Steve Neil and Drew Gress; as well as doing course work with Mike Richmond at NYU’s Graduate program in Jazz Performance. Along with leading his own group, the Eternal Now, Terence is an active member of the cajun alt. country group the Doc Marshalls and Matt Bauders’ Doo Wop group The White Blue Yellow and Clouds. __ Otto Hauser is a musician, composer, and educator best known for his work as a drummer. In addition to solo performances, Hauser leads the ensemble Expectations and co-leads the trio Late Regulars. Over the past twenty years, he has performed on dozens of studio albums and hundreds of live shows across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, working with diverse artists such as folk legends Kath Bloom, Vashti Bunyan, Mike Heron, Michael Hurley, and Bert Jansch; rockers The Black Crowes, Gary Louris, Jeff Tweedy, and Tony Visconti; drum legends Steve Gadd and Bobby Previte; the unclassifiable Meshell Ndegeocello; and many contemporary indie and folk acts, including Nat Baldwin, Devendra Banhart, Richard Buckner, Espers, Josephine Foster, Fruit Bats, Cass McCombs, Juana Molina, Elvis Perkins, Sharon Van Etten, Vetiver, and Jonathan Wilson.

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Join us for the December installment of Volume Reading & Music Series! On the second Saturday of every month, featuring readings from prose and poetry writers, followed by a quick DJ set. Volume events are always FREE. Save your $$ for books & beer! This Month: DANIEL NESTER is the author most recently of Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press 2015). Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull, 2010), God Save My Queen I and II (Soft Skull, 2003 and 2004), and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2014), which he edited. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Morning News, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction. He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. More about Daniel: http://www.danielnester.com KATHLEEN OSSIP is the author of The Do-Over; The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2011; The Search Engine, which was selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Best American Magazine Writing, the Washington Post,Paris Review, Poetry, The Believer, A Public Space, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School and online for The Poetry School of London. She has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. More about Kathleen: http://www.kathleenossip.com/ ERIN KHAR lives, loves, and writes in New York City and sometimes other cities too. She was the recipient of a 2012 Eric Hoffer Editor's Choice Prize for her story, "Last House at the End of the Street," which was published in the Best New Writing 2012 anthology. Her work has also appeared in From the Depths, Sliver of Stone, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, The Manifest-Station, a Spark Off Rose live show, The Fix, and as a regular contributor for Ravishly. She is currently working on her first book, a memoir.

Brian Dewan and P.G. Six present seasonal songs in this sixth installment of a bona fide Christmas classic. A portion of bar proceeds will benefit WGXC 90.7-FM. Listen live via 90.7-FM, or online at wgxc.org.

Join us for New Year's eve with DJ Liunar Moss spinning vinyl throughout the night!