$15/general, $10/senior, $5/student. Tickets available @ Strand Box Office 518-832-3484, cash or check only.

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​Rees Shad, has nearly 30 records in his discography. His latest project, a powerful new release titled Tattletale is going to finally bring the man and his music to your attention.

 After a self-imposed hiatus from the music business which kept him off the music industry grid (but never far from a recording studio) for the last twenty years, Shad is again playing live and writing some of the best songs of his career. Those who know his catalog have come to refer to him as a wordsmith and a songwriter’s songwriter. Graham Parker has remarked that “a rare class inhabits the man’s songwriting that’s rarely found today.” The Dallas Observer declared his writing style unique - “it's that personal, that complete, and that well done.” The Boston Herald described his songs as “literate and moving.”

Shad is a master of short story songs whose characters interact and reoccur in eloquent musical vignettes where each song adds to a wide-ranging and meaningful narrative with each successive album. His songs are “evocative” (BC Magazine) and “enthralling” (Stereo Review) but when combined they often come to tell a more wide-ranging narrative that is “unexpectedly literate and moving” (Boston Herald). He has proven to be a proficient documentarian of the human experience…and the story keeps getting better.

​Off the road since the early aughts, Shad’s recent return to the stage finds him exploring a more improvisational approach to performing his meticulously crafted narratives. This has resulted in performances akin to the freedoms found in live jazz. With his latest album, Tattletale, he’s brought this energy to the studio and struck a fresh vein of meaning and melody, of a flourishing, reflective future built upon the lessons and loves of the recent past.  His new songs possess irresistible melodies imbued with a style & wisdom not found anywhere else in contemporary music.