Violet Palms / This Is Gary

Show Date: March 5, 2026 @ 5:30 pm

Price: $10 advance

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Show Description:

Doors 5pm

This Is Gary – 5:30pm

Violet Palms – 6:30pm

$10 GA

plus $3 ticket fee

Artist Information:

Violet Palms

Violet Palms

Violet Palms combines early 2000s nostalgia and modern influences to create tight, direct rock music that is honest, occasionally goofy, and – because they can’t help themselves – funky.

Birthed from late night songwriting sessions between two longtime friends, the power of the dimly-lit kitchen table inspired Marcus Truschinski and Ben Feiner to share their music with friends, who were naturally added to complement the sound. Long time local music maker and engineer, Michael Mertens hopped back on the kit after years of playing guitar and Tim Gittings, actor and advocate, brought the funk on bass. Craig Benzine, Driftless Pony Club singer/guitarist, YouTube star and Marcus’s best friend from elementary school completed the band by playing off of Ben’s chugging guitar work to create a synchronized and dueling attack.

Violet Palms took the stage for the first time in early 2022, enjoying immediate success in the local scene. After a sold out performance at the local haunt, they found that they had more tip money than expected, as well as more than enough original music, so they focused on the obvious move: recording an album. Blast House Studios and engineer Dustin Sisson in Madison, WI were recommended by friends, and, embracing the band motto, “don’t think about it too much”, recording sessions were booked. In a few short months, Compassion Fatigue emerged fully formed and ready to climb inside your head and take a seat in your favorite easy chair.

This Is Gary

This Is Gary

 This is Gary is a four-piece vintage rock and alt country outfit based in Madison, Wisconsin. Taking influences from all over the musical landscape, This is Gary’s natural habitat is your fun uncle’s garage, where Doug Sahm and Pure Prairie League commingle with Badfinger and Son Volt.

Offering a mix of originals and covers with driving guitars and three-part vocal harmonies, This is Gary is Schlitz foam on a mustache. It is an Aqua Velva night sweat. It is the howling at the coyote moon. It is Gary. This is Gary.