Tim Palmieri books a January Sunday at Park City Music Hall

The New Haven-area guitarist, known for Lotus, Kung Fu and Psychedelic Breakfast, plays the 225-cap Bridgeport room on Jan. 17.

For a lot of Connecticut jam fans, Tim Palmieri is the local guitarist they've watched for years, in one band or another. Now there's a date on the calendar to do it again, up close.

Tim Palmieri plays Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2027, with the show starting at 6 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 20, and tickets are on VenuePilot. The room holds 225.

Palmieri's résumé reads like a map of the New England jamband scene. He's a New Haven-area player who has led bands including Kung Fu and Psychedelic Breakfast, and he's played guitar with Lotus; JamBase has covered him sitting in with Spafford at Toad's Place under that billing, and a Weird Music podcast episode introduced him as the band's newest member. The New Haven Independent has followed his career at home for years.

Park City Music Hall is familiar ground. The venue at 2926 Fairfield Ave. had him back as recently as Aug. 2, when he headlined a free patio show built around Grateful Dead and Beatles material. A January date inside the hall is a different proposition: a small room, a winter Sunday, and a crowd that bought tickets on purpose.

That 225-person capacity is the reason to pay attention to this one. Palmieri has played much bigger stages with the bands he's been part of, and seeing a player of his caliber in a room this size is the kind of thing local scenes are built on. Expect improvisation; that's the whole point.

The 6 p.m. start is worth noting, too. It's an early show by design, the sort that lets you catch two sets and still be home at a reasonable hour before Monday.

When to get tickets: now. The date has been on sale since it was announced in October, and a 225-cap room with a hometown draw in the middle of winter is the kind of show that can quietly sell out while everyone's busy with the holidays.

Plenty of national tours will roll through Connecticut this winter. This one is ours.

Sources: Tim Palmieri at Park City Music Hall tickets (VenuePilot) (tickets.venuepilot.com); Free Music on the Patio ft. Tim Palmieri, Aug. 2, 2026 (Park City Music Hall via VenuePilot) (tickets.venuepilot.com); Spafford welcomes Lotus guitarist Tim Palmieri at Toad's Place (JamBase) (jambase.com); Ep. 79: Tim Palmieri of Lotus (Weird Music Podcast) (hi.player.fm); Tim Palmieri (New Haven Independent) (newhavenindependent.org); Tim Palmieri: performance artist (Daily Nutmeg) (dailynutmeg.com); Tim Palmieri at Park City Music Hall (JamBase) (jambase.com)