8/6/12: Today’s Tips: Monday

MUSIC: Ramblin Jug Stompers @ Dana Park, Albany. Funky 78RPM back-porch music for the 21st century. 7pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys @ McGeary’s, Albany. Wry bluegrass with fine pickin’ & singin’. 7:15pm. FREE.

THEATER: “8” @ Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown. One-performance-only of Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black’s acclaimed gay marriage drama to benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Directed by Matt McGrath and starring Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale, Chris Bannow, Harry Ford, Kate Hamilton, Curt Hansen, Thomas McCarthy, Kevin O’Rourke, Crystal Lucas Perry, Ariana Seigel, Linda White, Chris Wood and WAMC-FM’s Sarah LaDuke. 7:30pm. $40.

READING: John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” @ Townsend Park, Albany. A community reading in memorial to the anniversary of the detonation of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Sign up to read upon arrival, or just listen. Please bring chairs. 11am. Rain Site: Social Justice Center, Albany.

MUSIC: MARS Project @ Club Helsinki, Hudson. A blues, rock and R&B power trio featuring guitarist John “Ratso” Gerardi, vocalist-bassist Angel Rissoff and drummer Mike Marble. 8pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Jay Yager & Garland Nelson @ Panza’s Restaurant, Saratoga Lake. The vocalists of the Audiostars and Soul Session respectively team up for an acoustic evening. 7pm.

MUSIC: Funk Evolution @ Siro’s, Saratoga Springs. 6:30pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Hallow Dog @ the Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 8pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Brett Sears & Sean Madden @ Albany Elks Club, Albany. A change in the schedule of the Upper Madison Free Monday Night Concert Series finds Sears & Madden making an encore appearance. 7pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Dan Mellon @ Dango’s, Saratoga Springs. 8pm. FREE.