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Memorial Day BBQ and Brass Band Bash! With Cornbread Harris, Brasszilla, The West Band Social Club, Brasszilla, Mike Wolter & Friends and more!

  • Palmer's Bar 500 Cedar Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55454 United States (map)

Come dance, stomp, sing and eat some BBQ with us and some of the finest Brass Bands in Minneapolis! Doors 2:30, Music All Day, Free BBQ! $15 21+

3pm Bridge Band~ From Jackson 5 to Earth, Wind and Fire; from Celo Green to Abdullah Ibrahim, high-energy and tons of fun!

3:50 Colonel Mustard's Mechanical Orchestra~ Think Duke Ellington in an episode of Twin Peaks, the Johnny Quest theme played by Tom Waits, with some Ennio Morricone and Goran Bregovic thrown in.

4:40 Mike Wolter & Friends~ The tunes range from early jazz to Ornette, from Brazilian choro to Balkan burners, and so much more.

5:30 Brasszilla~ will deliver its hip-shakin’ beer jazz. Something that's a little chilly and a little hot and makes the head start to move with a certain kind of groove.

6:20 West Band Social Club~ was born at Palmers Bar on the West Bank in Minneapolis in the wake of twelve years of Sunday nights

7:20 Cornbread Harris & Friends~ at 98 this Minnesota music legend has been entertaining patrons in the Twin Cities with his piano playing and singing since the end of World War II. Do not miss this!

9:10 The Brass Messengers~ are anything that fits into twisted brass tubing, from inspired originals, to sing-a-longs, to covers from around the globe.

10 (inside) Booster Pack~ a mashup of modern jazz and video game music. They perform original jazz/fusion arrangements of songs from video game soundtracks.

If weather is dumb the show moves inside.