11/18/13: Today’s Tips: Monday

MUSIC: Ramblin Jug Stompers @ McGeary’s Pub, Albany. Cousin Clyde, Mister Eck, Bowtie and Wild Bill whip up their vintage American roots ruckus. 7pm. FREE.

MUSIC: Crocodiles @ Valentine’s Music Hall, Albany. Californian indie noise-popsters in support of their latest album, Crimes of Passion, produced by Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonnettes. With Brooklyn-based Ski Lodge, Slowshine and Party Boat. 7pm. $13.

MUSIC: Voodoo Orchestra North @ Club Helsinki, Hudson. Jazz drummer-composer Bobby Previte and an assortment of fine upstate New York musicians explore the music of Miles Davis’s eternal electric jazz-funk masterpiece, Bitches Brew. 8pm. $7.

MUSIC: Simple Gifts @ Edward J. Arthur Elementary School, Athens. The dynamic duo of multi-instrumentalists Linda Littleton and Karen Hirshon draw on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving klezmer freilachs and haunting Gypsy melodies. 6:30pm. FREE.

FILM: “An American in Paris” @ the Palace Theatre, Albany. Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 classic musical starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. 7pm. $5; $3 children.

FILM: “It Happened One Night” @ Proctors, Schenectady. Starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, Frank Capra’s classic comedy was the first film to win all five top Academy Awards. 2:30, 5 & 7:30pm. $5.