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Palmer's Bar! 9.10.23
Sun, Sep 10
|Palmer's Bar
Paul Fonfara, Johnny Sincerely, and yours truly will be delighting your senses at Palmer's Bar in the West Bank!


Time & Location
Sep 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Palmer's Bar, 500 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
About the event
Paul Fonfara
Paul Fonfara is a composer, songwriter, jazz clarinetist and all around nice guy, who for many years he helmed the band Painted Saints. With odd cinematic twists, and dense vivid lyrics, they live in a Spaghetti Western, Heroin Klezmer, Experimental Sad Bastard Chamber Folk, Psychadelic Shoegaze Dirge Motown, Andrew Bird if he was from Twin Peaks sound.
A transplant to Minneapolis from Denver, where after finishing a degree in music studying Clarinet, Fonfara got his start in DeVotchKa, and the Denver Gentlemen then moved on to record and tour internationally with 16 Horsepower/Woven Hand and with Jim White. When Fonfara settled in Minneapolis 14 years ago, his well-honed and exploratory talents were immediately recognized as he became a member of local favorites Spaghetti Western String Co., balancing the precision and delicacy of that band with the raucous playfulness of the Brass Messengers, and the silent movie film scores…