The Quartet is back. The visuals will be rolling. Join us for a mixed-media spectacle. 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.

Volume is back again! Come on out for the February installment of the Volume Music & Reading Series. We're all here on the second Saturday of every month, featuring readings by prose and poetry writers. We have a short DJ set after the reading for your mingling and dancing enjoyment. As always, Volume is free! Save your cash for books and drinks! BRANDA C. MAHOLTZ graduated with a MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2003. She is an artist and writer who explores and/or over-contemplates musings on found art, collections of seemingly meaningless items, and anything that might be left unsaid. She has published work in Chronogram, and various online literary journals including nanomajority and 5_trope. Branda resides in Hudson, NY. SHANNEKIA MACINTOSH is a writer, curator and DJ. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, McIntosh moved to Hudson in 2010 and since then has been actively engaged in work throughout different mediums that develop around the idea of accessible community spaces. She recently founded the art and writing zine Zero Cool. Her work has been published in Dossier Journal, and NYLON magazine, amongst others. Check out zer0cool.net HALLIE GOODMAN’s writing has appeared in many publications including Paper magazine, Self magazine, Redbook magazine, The Knot magazine, Chronogram and Glamour.com. She's penned popular blogs for MSN.com, FitnessMagazine.com and YahooShine.com among others. As a journalist, she once went undercover to the orientation for a swinger’s orgy, so she can brief you on the rules, if that sort of information would be helpful to you. Hallie has performed at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The PIT and Comix. She is a New York Foundation of The Arts MARK fellow, and is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. DANI GRAMMERSTORF FRENCH has an MFA in Creative Fiction from The New School and has been published in Playgirl, Broken Pencil, and others. She was the co-founder of the long-running Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in NYC. Dani lives in Hudson, NY with her husband and daughter. Her hobbies include bitching about the quality of upstate bagels, procuring Flannery O'Connor tribute tattoos, and attending awkward adult nights at local roller rinks. Followed by a set by DJ Dan Bunny.

We're ecstatic to host this unforgettable show. Bibbe Hansen is a performance artist, actress and musician. She is the daughter of Fluxus artist Al Hansen, and the mother of artist Channing Hansen and the pop musician Beck. A longtime participant in avant-garde contemporary art communities, as a youngster Bibbe made films with Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas and participated in her father’s “Happenings” and Fluxus performances at such historical venues as La Mama, Circle in the Square and the Living Theater. Currently a member of the virtual reality performance group Second Front, Hansen is writing a memoir and teaches and lectures on art and the creative process. __ Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, her fierce energy and rapid fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature. Queen of No Wave, muse of The Cinema of Transgression, writer, musician, poet, spoken word artist and photographer, she has released too many musical projects to tally, has been on tour for decades, has published dozens of articles, half a dozen books and simply refuses to just shut up. Brooklyn’s Akashic Books have published her anthology Will Work For Drugs, as well as her outrageous memoir of sexual insanity Paradoxia, A Predator's Diary, which has been translated into seven languages. She performs in a variety of mediums, is a rabid collaborator and continues to release new music as well as re-issuing classic material such as her spoken word indictment against patriarchal idiocy, The Conspiracy of Women through Nicolas Jaar’s label Other People.

Please pinch us so we know we're not dreaming... No, don't. We're honored that Eric is coming by. Seating will be limited. About Eric: Nothing Eric has to say sounds like it was said by someone else first. His songs deal with ramshackle existences, the tenuous nature of life, love and fame, depression, injustice, pain, depravity and death, always delivered with indefatigable optimism. Eric began his recording life on Stiff Records in 1977 with his enduring hit Whole Wide World when he was little more than an ex-teenage art student. Eventually he sidestepped the mechanics of stardom to become Britain’s biggest underground household name, much loved and much misunderstood. (Eric's photo by Karen Keats) In the 1980s, disgusted by current recording trends, he started to make records in village halls and in his living room. A drummer pounded on a cardboard box, ambient noise bled in from the street. It wasn’t yet called lo-fi. Everyone in the “music biz” told him he couldn’t make records that way so he carried on doing exactly that. The 1990s and early 2000s were a time of good obscure stuff: Le Beat Group Electrique, The Donovan of Trash, 12 O’Clock Stereo, Karaoke, Bungalow Hi. Roundly ignored, treasured by the few, when noticed outside of the circle of understanding the records were often reviled and ridiculed. In 2003 he met and eventually married Amy Rigby, an esteemed songwriter in her own right. They sometimes perform as a duo, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, and have released three albums. They live in bohemian splendour in upstate New York in a sprawling bungalow. Eric has his own studio in what he describes as his budget pop star home where he continues to record other-worldly pop records. He signed to Fire Records in 2014. A reissue campaign ensued and now his obscure post Stiff output is being recognised as influential, embraced and loved as it had once been reviled. A brand new Fire Records Wreckless Eric album is scheduled for November. Wreckless Eric is Eric Goulden. He was given the name to hide behind. After a while he realised he was stuck with it. Onstage he hides behind nothing, he tells the truth with big open chords, squalls of feedback, lilting enchantment, bizarre stories and backchat. Some people can’t take it. Thirty seven years of touring have left him in good shape. He’s coming to town. Wreckless Eric is a hero to all those of us who love a good kitchen sink drama set to music. He takes the strangeness in the everyday and sets it to song. Like Ray Davies, Kevin Ayers and Ian Dury, he is a truly great British songwriter – Phil Alexander, editor in chief, MOJO magazine A sound that Joe Meek would have killed for – Q Magazine Le Beat Group Electique…a blast of sonic honesty, soul-bearing poetry married to Alan Freed-approved rock ‘n’ roll – Asbury Park Press …flashes of pre-stardom Beatles, Jonathan Richman, Syd Barrett, Bobby Fuller, and the stripped-down side of Robyn Hitchcock. But mostly it’s like Wreckless Eric – The Vinyl District