Longtime Levis friend and collaborator Andy Pierce passed this along…

Dennis Palmer, co-founder of the Shaking Ray Levis duo and namesake Shaking Ray Levi Society passed away February 15, 2013. Visual artist, storyteller, educator, mentor, friend and the world’s most colorfully inventive synthesizer player, he will be greatly missed.

Death notice and memorial info

Derek Bailey, Amy Denio, Dennis Palmer: “I Miss a Friend Like You”

Times Free Press article

Creative Loafing article

Dennis Palmer Portraiture

With Rev. Howard Finster and Bob Stagner

With Col. Bruce Hampton and Davey Williams

With Shelley Hirsch and Bob Stagner

With Amy Denio, Jessica Lurie, and Bob Stagner

With Derek bailey and Bob Stagner