Tim Palmieri books a Psychedelic Beatles night at Park City Music Hall for Dec. 28

The Connecticut jam guitarist takes his Beatles project into Bridgeport's 225-capacity room in the quiet week between Christmas and New Year's.

The week between Christmas and New Year's is when Connecticut's jam scene comes home: college kids back for break, old friends in town, everyone looking for one good night out before the big one. Tim Palmieri just gave Bridgeport that night.

Tim Palmieri plays Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport on Monday, Dec. 28, with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are through VenuePilot, where the show is billed as Psychedelic Beatles featuring Tim Palmieri. The date was announced Oct. 20. The room holds 225, which is why it is worth buying now rather than the week of.

Palmieri is a familiar name to anyone who has followed New England jam bands. Jambands.com has described him as the guitarist of The Breakfast, the Connecticut band often billed as the Psychedelic Breakfast, and covered the band's place in the region's jam circuit years ago. He was sitting in with the Zen Tricksters as far back as 2002, per Jambands.com.

The Beatles have been a long-running thread in his work. Jambands.com reported on an ambitious run in which he set out to play the entire Beatles catalog in alphabetical order over several nights in Milford. A psychedelic-era Beatles night is a natural next chapter for a guitarist who has spent that much time inside those songs, and it fits a crowd that knows how far "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "I Am the Walrus" can stretch in the right hands.

Park City Music Hall is home turf for him. He played a free patio show there on Aug. 2 this year, a three-hour afternoon set of Grateful Dead and Beatles songs, according to a listing. The Breakfast played the hall on Halloween 2024, a show that is archived on the Internet Archive for anyone who wants a preview of what Palmieri sounds like in that room.

At 225 capacity, Park City is one of those places where the stage is close enough that you can watch the guitarist's hands, and for a Beatles night built on guitar tone and studio-era textures, that is the whole point. A Monday in the holiday lull also means a crowd that chose to be there, not one that wandered in.

Check VenuePilot for door times and the rest of the lineup before you go.

Plenty of bands play Beatles songs. Fewer have a guitarist who once tried to play all of them, in order. Dec. 28 in Bridgeport is the one to circle.

Sources: Psychedelic Beatles ft. Tim Palmieri, Park City Music Hall (VenuePilot) (tickets.venuepilot.com); The Breakfast's New England Jamband Summit (Jambands.com) (jambands.com); Tim Palmieri sits in with the Zen Tricksters (Jambands.com) (jambands.com); Tim Palmieri Beatles catalog run (Jambands.com) (jambands.com); Free Music On The Patio ft. Tim Palmieri at Park City Music Hall (JazzNearYou) (jazznearyou.com); The Breakfast Live at Park City Music Hall on 2024-10-31 (Internet Archive) (archive.org); Tim Palmieri at Park City Music Hall (JamBase) (jambase.com)