Elkhorn is a folk/psych-rock guitar duo featuring Jesse Sheppard on twelve-string acoustic and Drew Gardner on electric. This music interweaves the extended folk tradition with psychedelic improvisation. Elkhorn’s sound is rooted in the earthy, traditional fingerpicking of Sheppard with Gardner’s restrained, passionate cascades of improvised melodic phrases flowing through. They move freely between several different traditions; from American Primitive to Psychedelic Rock, from Hindustani to Mauritanian, from Krautrock to Jazz; pulling from players as diverse as Robbie Basho, Sonny Sharrock, Ben Chasny, and David Gilmour. Elkhorn combines the past and future in a rich multilayered music that shifts fluidly from pre-rock to post-rock. Gardner and Sheppard grew up together in the deep woods and rotting industrial husks of central New Jersey and are long time musical collaborators. Their duo concept has come together over the last few years of intense woodshedding. As a Philadelphia-based filmmaker Sheppard has worked with artists such as Glenn Jones, Daniel Bachman, and Nathan Bowles. His performance documentary featuring Jack Rose, The Things That We Used To Do, came out on Strange Attractors Audio House in 2010. Gardner is a multi-instrumentalist who has led bands featuring avant-garde musicians such as John Tchicai and Sabir Mateen, and often conducts experimental collaborations on the fringes of the New York improv music scene. __ Alexander Turnquist (born 1988 in Idaho) is an American guitarist and composer. 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. Turnquist's first widely released album "Faint at the Loudest Hour" (VHF Records 2007) was given high marks with an 8.2 in the popular music review website Pitchfork. His second release with the VHF Records label "As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color" was named the #6 out of The Silent Ballet top 50 Albums of 2009.

Volume is a monthly reading series hosted by Dani Grammerstorf French and Hallie Goodman. Volume happens every second Saturday. This month's readings include: W.B. (BILL) BELCHER grew up in the Berkshires and earned his MFA from Goddard College. He lives along the Battenkill River in upstate New York with his wife and two kids. Lay Down Your Weary Tune is his first novel. CHANEL DUBOFSKY writes things in Brooklyn, NY. You can read them at Cosmopolitan, The Billfold, The Frisky, The Forward, Previously.TV, Matchbook, Monkey Bicycle, and elsewhere. ANNIE DEWITT’s debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, comes out August 9th from Tyrant Books. Her story collection, Closest Without Going Over, was shortlisted for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She is a MacDowell Fellow and teaches at Columbia University. Followed by a DJ set from returning favorite, Shannekia McIntosh. Books will be available for sale and signing.

“Keegan Jennings Goodman’s Tennessee Highway Death Chant melds the limitless, pensive texture of a Tarkovsky film with the logic of Nabokov, prying the lid off of the edges of our continuously repeating, and yet never fully catalyzable, experience of death. A singular work that bends to no trend and bats no eye while treading head on into the fundament.” — Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and 300,000,000 In a purgatory at the banks of the Hiwassee River in southeastern Tennessee, two teenagers, the garrulous John Stone and the young Jenny Evenene, barrel through an endless night in a Firebird Trans Am. As Jenny wakes each morning, the same morning, and chronicles the events of her final day, her mind reaches back into the recesses of time, collecting a mythical past that bleeds into the details of her violent end. John drinks beer and philosophizes about the nature of reality and consciousness. The two heroes drive through the night, drinking cold American beer and listening to the country music station, hurling themselves into the darkness beyond the headlights.

With guests Otto Gardner and Tyler Wood. 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. _________ 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.

“We've been friends since high school, and she had been making music for awhile, but not sharing it with anyone. The day she had her first public performance we were all completely floored by how beautiful it was.” - Curt Oren From a review of Armadillo (2015)... Acoustic singer-songwriter Nora Petran’s debut solo record is a quiet, atmospheric, and understated highlight which stands in stark contrast to the bombast of Dana T’s recordings or the aggression of Curt Oren’s saxophone work. The most brilliant moments of the record come with the short dissonances, the tight tensions that emerge from floaty murmurs.“Armadillo” is Oren’s favorite track on the record, in which the guitar dominates the mix over background whispers in a surprisingly effective and gorgeous production choice. The music of “Rib Phone,” another highlight, reminisces gently of Joanna Newsom like a wistful daydream.

PAUL is a slo musical project of Angelina Dreem. Dreem is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and visual arts. Creating her own form of ‘cyber-shamanism’, she pulls from self-help, mysticism, and theory to create safe space with her performances, music, and curation. She has performed at Art Basel Miami, MoMaPS1,Company Gallery and more. Hunter Hendrix is the founder of Brooklyn Dark Metal group Liturgy. Shanekia McIntosh is a writer, creative arts programmer and DJ born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In 2010 McIntosh moved to Hudson, NY and has been actively engaged in multimedia work (radio, performance, curation). Most recently founded and published art + writing zine ZeroCool.

Nancy Fuller, the star of the Food Network's Farmhouse Rules will be LIVE on the air with Jimmy Buff from Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST inside the Spotty Dog! The book signing will take place after!! Get a signed copy of Nancy's book for a birthday or holiday gift. Hope to see you there!!

Friday, August 26 7pm A Hot August Night Reading with VT Hung, Jen Hyde, and Daniel Nester plus special guests. Asian American Writers’ Workshop fellows VT Hung and Jen Hyde wrap up their fellowships at The Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY and read new work, joined by friend Daniel Nester and others. A short set from DJ Wizzy D (Delmar, NY) to follow. VT Hung was born in Dorchester. He is a Kundiman Fellow and currently resides in Washington Heights with his girlfriend and their cat. You can contact him at www.vthung.com. Link to recent work here. Jen Hyde is the author of Hua Shi Hua (华画诗) Drawings and Poems from China, forthcoming in January 2017 from Ahsahta Press. Her poems and generative translations have appeared in The Margins, The Volta and Drunken Boat, and she is a collaborative chapbook publisher with No, Dear / Small Anchor. The recipient of fellowships from Ithaca College and NYU Shanghai, Jen is currently a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writer's Workshop and a Heart Valve Ambassador for the American Heart Association. She lives in Brooklyn. Link to recent work here. Daniel Nester is the author most recently of the memoir-in-essays Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press 2015). His 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. He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Link to recent work here.