Exciting News! The Secret City is BACK in the Hudson Valley! Stay tuned for details of our intimate Summer Salon Series which will feature local artists and art-makers of every stripe. We're back and we want to reconnect! Details to follow . . . (fb)

Happy Birthday to Fats Waller, a musician that will always remind me of my grandparents! My grandad would play his music on the top floor of his house in Cambridge. Sometimes my Granny would dance along! Waller was was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer who was born in New York City in 1904. After death he was cremated and his ashes were scattered over Harlem from an airplane piloted by an unidentified African-American World War I aviator. "I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!" #THeSecretCity #ArtChurch #FatsWaller #AintMisbehavin #HoneySuckleRose #NYC #Jazz #JazzIcon #HarlemStride (fb)