Palmers is happy to welcome back All The Pretty Horses with special guests Stardust Collective (Duluth)
About this event
Doors 6pm. Showtime 7-10. $15 in advance $20 at the door.
All The Pretty Horses~"Led by transgender, performance artist Venus de Mars, Venus de Mars & All The Pretty Horses is a quartet. Influences: David Bowie & Sex Pistols, add heavy guitar & outrageous costumes. Self-described "glam-punk."
Venus de Mars is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, best known as a singer-songwriting transgender rock star and leader of the band Venus de Mars & All the Pretty Horses (Influences: David Bowie & Sex Pistols, add heavy guitar & outrageous costumes. Self-described "glam-punk.")
Venus is also one of the foundational artists for Rifle Sport Alternative Art Gallery, creating its iconic big blue doors which fronted Hennepin Avenue and installations that included a Honda Civic art car parked halfway up the main staircase. A chance tax audit transformed her into a champion of artists’ tax rights, after which the Venus de Mars Fund with Springboard for the Arts was established. Venus along with her wife Lynette Reini-Grandell, are the subject of rock-doc Venus of Mars [2004] by filmmaker Emily Goldberg.
Venus came out as transgender at a time when identifying as trans meant being classified as having a mental perversion and living as an outcast. Her refusal to live a shadow existence, instead embracing her uniqueness, complicated her musical and artistic career paths. She is now mid-process in writing a memoir reflecting her thirty-year trans journey and place in this fast-changing, trans-embracing-backlashing world where we now find ourselves.
Venus is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, among them a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, a Bush Fellowship, a Minnesota Music Award, and is the subject of the award-winning rock-documentary Venus of Mars. She toured with Laura Jane Grace and Against Me in 2014. She has released multiple albums over her career. Her last release, an acoustic album produced by longtime collaborator Barb Morrison (Debbie Harry, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, etc.), is titled Flesh and Wire. She is currently writing a memoir and her band and she are currently working on a new LP.
Check out the new record 'I Think Darkness' here I Think Darkness
Stardust Collective is a rock band driven by the songwriting and composition of Aaron Tank, who plays guitar and handles lead vocals. The music features lush harmonies, accessible but sometimes unorthodox song structures, and an originality that borrows from a breadth of rock genres. Backing Tank are drummer Amy Ugstad, bassist Eric Bong, and keyboard and violin player Shawna Weaver. With evocative lyrics that tap into the head, heart and cosmos, Stardust Collective plays music that evokes dancing, loving and thrashing, separately and all at once.
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