Marco & Serpentfly VALENTINES DAY in BROOKLYN

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marco benevento & leslie helpert will be playing a special
Valentine's Day show at the Lucky Cat in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn - if you're in the city please come on out it sounds
totally novel & fun...

here's what the new york press said about it:

Marco Benevento & Leslie Helpert | Mon. Feb. 14



Brooklyn's Projectile Arts collective presents an intimate and relaxed evening of inspired musical collaboration tonight with pianist Marco Benevento and singer-songwriter Leslie Helpert, who currently enjoys going by the moniker "Serpentfly." Separately, these two have been drawing critical acclaim in the realms of exploratory jazz and folk music, Benevento for his incendiary live performances with drummer Joe Russo and Phish's Mike Gordon and Helpert for her carefully crafted songs and nuanced vocal inflections; together they'll focus their creativity on fresh interpretations of classic love songs and ballads from across the musical spectrum.



This is the first on-stage meeting of two young, energetically linked artists working in radically different styles, so tonight promises a high degree of novelty. Think of it as two iPods meeting in the night: Before you know it, Billie Holiday is singing Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" backed by Brad Meldhau and a chorus of wood-nymphs, the strange and beautiful sophistication transporting you entirely.



The Lucky Cat is one of Williamsburg's coziest little spots—it was made for nights like this—and its candlelit ambience should have your love meters going off the deep end. Tonight's show also benefits the ongoing work of Projectile Arts—a community of filmmakers and artists dedicated to cross-cultural communication through creative expression—so you can feel extra warm and fuzzy.



The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand St. (betw. Driggs Ave. & Roebling St.), Williamsburg, 718-782-0437, 8, $10 sugg. don.