Relax by the fireplace and experience the fine cuisine in the Dining Room at the Stockade Inn. Our elegant, yet comfortable fine dining restaurant specializes in American cuisine with Tuscan influences. Be it for an intimate dinner or business meeting the dining room is the ideal place for an unforgettable experience.
View Restaurant PhotosRelax and enjoy our newly redecorated lounge. Our Lounge Menu proudly features gourmet lounge fare, martinis, dessert, coffee, and glass wine selections to enjoy at your leisure. Visit our Lounge to enjoy an excellent meal in a setting that will make you feel like you're in a different world. The Lounge offers live jazz every Wednesday from 6 to 9 PM and Thursday from 7 to 10 PM. We also offer Happy Hour Specials Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6 PM.
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Dave Fisk is a Jazz saxophonist from Albany, NY. Dave is a performer and leader of his own group, The Dave Fisk Quartet. As a leader of this quartet, he performs regularly at local venues, including 9 Maple Ave Jazz club in Saratoga, Justin’s in Albany, Cooper’s Cave in Glens Falls, and has also been featured at the Jazz on Jay series in Schenectady. Dave is an original member of Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble and has been playing Alto Saxophone with that group for the last 6 years. He can also be seen performing with many other groups in the Capital Region. In addition to performing, Dave is also a music educator and has been teaching at Niskayuna Central Schools for the past 15 years.
The product of a musical family, Colleen is the daughter of musicians Helen and Norman Pratt and the niece of well-known jazz man Bobby Pratt. Colleen performs with several area bands along with her own group, Colleen Pratt and Friends. The band lays down some swinging grooves and serves up some beautiful ballads on her first two CDs, Ain't Misbehavin' and Live at One Caroline.
The Doc Scanlon Duo plays the great standards of Gershwin, Berlin and Cole Porter as well as the jazz of Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. This is a versatile group with that will play with an unbeatable combination of taste and talent. Doc Scanlon, a well-known figure in Capital District music circles, has traveled up and down the East Coast of the USA to great acclaim. Together for almost 30 years, his larger combo has also completed international tours that have taken them to Russia, Finland's prestigious Pori Jazz Festival and have performed at the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
he Lee Shaw Duo is a contemporary piano duo with bass and piano, drawing mostly on the virtuoso end of Bop language, in standards and original compositions. Lee Shaw was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1993 and has appeared on Marian McPartland's PIANO JAZZ.The Trio has performed at the Freihofer Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Northpointe Arts Center, Spencertown Academy,Linda Norris Auditorium,done clinics and concerts at various colleges in NY state and Oklahoma and plays regularly in clubs in NY state and Massachusetts. The Lee Shaw Duo is Lee Shaw (piano) and Rich Syracuse (bass). http://www.leeshaw.org
Peg Delaney plays sophisticated piano jazz, drawing from American, Latin and Brazilian idioms. Peg is a two time recipient of the New York State Council for the Arts: Meet the Composer grant and was semi-finalist in Musician Magazine’s Best Unsigned Band Competition. Author of a book of transcriptions by Nick Brignola, Peg’s work has been recognized by National Jazz Educators, Saxophone Journal, and New York State Music Teachers Association.
Lou Pappas obtained his master’s degree in double bass performance from Colorado State University. He has performed nationally with many of the great artists from the Who’s Who in jazz listings (e.g. Jay McShann, Bill Watrous, Tom Scott, Randy Brecker, Billy Cobham, Steve Turre, etc. etc….). He also served in the West Point Jazz Knights, performing throughout the U.S. Lou retired from the USMA Band in 2006 and currently teaches Vassar College and SUNY New Paltz, in addition to presenting workshops and master classes nationally at colleges, public school districts, teacher’s workshops, etc. He is also very active on the jazz scene performing with some of the best jazz players in the Hudson Valley and the Capital region.
Born and raised on Long Island, Steve spent 1978-1982 at SUNY Albany majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. While there, in addition to performing in the school’s jazz ensemble, he had a handful of gigs in the Albany area, including some work with Doc Scanlon and a couple of jobs as a member of a big band that featured Nick Brignola and Mike Canonico. Steve also has fond memories of having the opportunity to work around and learn from many great local musicians including Ray Rettig, Cliff Lyons, Otto Gardner and Sam Farkas.
Repeatedly cited as “Best Jazz” by Metroland magazine, Brian Patneaude's music is an organic blend of modern jazz styles, featuring accessible melodies and harmonic textures that appeal to the casual listener and jazz aficionado alike. In addition to leading his own quartet (with five critically acclaimed releases to their credit) the saxophonist maintains an active performance schedule with the award winning Empire Jazz Orchestra, the seventeen piece juggernaut Big Soul Ensemble and drummer Michael Benedict's hard-bop quintet Bopitude. Patneaude has performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Kingston International Jazz Festival, the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, the Rochester International Jazz Festival and countless clubs and concert halls throughout the Northeast. http://www.brianpatneaude.com
The product of a musical family, Colleen is the daughter of musicians Helen and Norman Pratt and the niece of well-known jazz man Bobby Pratt. Colleen performs with several area bands along with her own group, Colleen Pratt and Friends. The band lays down some swinging grooves and serves up some beautiful ballads on her first two CDs, Ain't Misbehavin' and Live at One Caroline.
The Stockade Inn is located at the corner of Union and Church Streets in the historic Stockade District of Schenectady, New York.
1 North Church Street, Schenectady, New York 12305 | Ph: 518.346.3400 | Fax: 518.346.3393 | questions@stockadeinn.com
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