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Spencertown Academy Presents Spottiswoode & His Enemies downtown NYC rock band on April 19
Spencertown, New York–Spencertown Academy Roots & Shoots Concerts Series presents downtown NYC rock band Spottiswoode & His Enemies on Saturday, April 19 at 8:00pm at the Academy’s Blanche Grubin Auditorium. The band will entertain with a broad selection of tunes—catchy, hilarious, joyful, sometimes tear-jerking stories of love, family, the weather, and everything in between—as well as part of Spottiswoode’s new memoir-in-song, “Youngest Child,” and songs from his musical, “Above Hell’s Kitchen.” General admission tickets ($30 public, $25 Academy members) are available via www.spencertownacademy.org.
“It’s going to be a fun and memorable evening,” says Michele Quigley, co-chair of the Academy Music Committee. “Spottiswoode is an amazing showman and a real character. In addition to singing and playing guitar, he’ll play a song or two on piano and he promises to harass the audience mercilessly and subject them to probing Q&As, singalongs, and spontaneous anecdotes from a life on the road.”
Spottiswoode is an award-winning bandleader, singer-songwriter, scriptwriter, filmmaker, and the frontman for Spottiswoode & His Enemies. His music travels the gamut, drawing comparisons to Tom Waits, Ray Davies, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Randy Newman, and Jim Morrison, At the Academy, he’ll be joined by several Enemies, including John Young (bass guitar), Tim Vaill (drums), and Tony Lauria (piano, keyboards, and accordion).
With the band, he has released seven acclaimed records, performed numerous Manhattan residencies, and toured extensively—from SXSW and Lille Europe to Lincoln Center. His songs have been featured in a wide variety of films and television shows and have either won or been nominated for multiple Independent Music Awards.
Roots & Shoots Concerts is an ongoing Academy series that showcases artists who reach back to earlier traditions in music (Americana, jazz, blues, rock, and world music) for inspiration while incorporating more recent forms and influences of the present.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Founded in 1972, Spencertown Academy Arts Center is a cultural center and community resource serving Columbia County, the Berkshires, and the Capital region. Housed in a landmark 1847 Greek Revival schoolhouse, the Academy is located at 790 State Route 203 in Spencertown, New York. For more information, please contact info@spencertownacademy.org.