photo by Mia Ferm

On December 20th at Club Europa Brooklyn New York, Castanets will be playing the House of Hearts Benefit Show that will be held on the 19th and 20th.  The two nights of experimental music is presented by Frontporch Productions in collaboration with Gigi Chew and the artistic community of Booklyn and New York City.  Proceeds will be donated to The Fathers Heart Ministries: a soup kitchen and food pantry in the East Village & The Friendship House: a community mental health and homeless center in Knoxville, TN.  The musicians performing include current and former members of Black Dice, No Neck Blues Band, Grizzly Bear, and Rhys Chatham’s Essentialist.


Tuesday December 19th

Mountains
Paul Duncan
Stars Like Fleas
Bear in Heaven (members of Rhys Chatham’s Essentialist & Jonathan Kane’s
February)
Soft Circle
Midnight Motion (members of Grizzly Bear)
Queens
Ateleia

DJs Tres (of Psychic Ills) & Andreas Knutsen

Wednesday December 20th
Corridors
D Charles Speer (members of No Neck Blues Band)
Mouthus
Zachary Cale
Uncle Woody
Matta Llama
Electroputas
Castantets

DJ Root Hog or Die

The Father’s Heart Ministries is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization located in the East Village on the Lower East Side in Manhattan—where countless individuals struggle to make ends meet in the face of an increasingly expensive and gentrified atmosphere.  The Father’s Heart Ministries is dedicated to restoring dignity and an improved quality of life to the many low-income (working poor), homeless, and immigrant individuals in our community.  In our efforts to support those in need and to reduce hunger, we run a food pantry and soup kitchen where hundreds of children and adults are fed hot meals on a weekly basis.  In addition, we provide free ESL and Parenting classes, job opportunities for neighborhood youth at our ice cream store, and referrals to appropriate social services in hopes of enabling individuals to move towards self-sufficiency.

December 19th and 20th
$10 donation
Club Europa
98-104 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222
(between Manhattan Ave. and Lorimer St.)
718-383-5723