 Peter Berdovsky, the former Arlington resident who hit the headlines in early 2007 for his role in a Boston bomb scare, would like you to help him raise money so his mom can escape from Belarus. "Come Home," a benefit show for Berdovsky's mother, was held Saturday, March 8, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Good Life Bar in downtown Boston.
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"Come celebrate this year's International Woman's Day in style and in purpose," Berdovsky wrote in a recent e-mail, referring to March 8.
Every $10 entry donation will go to the fund, established to try to help his mother escape into Poland from her harsh life in Belarus.
"While staying in the United States I have been finding out that most of my family in totalitarian Belarus have been dying one by one in mysterious circumstances. Now, only my mother is left from my close relatives.
"And the authorities have recently locked her up into a mental institution for not complying with them. She was facing an uphill legal battle to try to preserve her land and property and has made a decision to immigrate to Poland.
"It's a right choice -- as that country is much safer -- but me being a broke-ass artist doesn't help the situation at all. I decided to apply my creativity to the situation. My friends and I are holding a two-floor show at the Good Life bar."
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Acoustic performances from 9 to 11 p.m.:
1. Zen and Bebbler (of Zebbler Encanti Experience) present the ultraacoustic pseudo-pop performance.
2. Basso en Tabla fuse Eastern and Western traditional instrumentation to create their own unique style of acoustic avant-garde chillout.
3. Mystery guest vocal/baby grand piano performance (tba soon).
Additional installation, video and still art, relating to issues of immigration, conflict and human condition, by Lina Maria Giraldo, Denise Marika, Surendra Lawoti,and Claire Beckett.
Downstairs will host Boston's Best underground electronic and experimental dance music, audiovisual performances:
10 to 11:30 p.m.:
The Gently Brothers, two of our favorite DJs from Boston's WZBC radio. The duo have been co-hosting "Green," a program on WZBC dedicated to live DJ performances, since 2003.
11:30 to 12:30 p.m.:
Zebbler Encanti Experience (Vermin Street Records) See www.zebbler.com and www.theundergroundorchestra.com/.
Zebbler and Encanti will perform with their usual style -- live surround a/v performance, adjusted for the size and space of the Good Life. Seducing people into the emotional realms not often associated with dance music, these two are well known in the underground for their 3 a.m. psychedelicious mind explosions.
Midnight:
Guest videogame guitar rock hero performance by Lee Orlandi (a lead guitar player for Zebbler's band Superfiction)
12:30 to 2 a.m.:
Psylab, whose four members are dedicated to producing an authentic live electronic dance music experience by improvising solely with live instrumentation, without the use of sequencers, loops or arpeggiators.
This event is co-produced by Vermin Street Arts and Media
To make any additional donations and for updates, please visit http://hourevolution.org/helpeter/
To those curious to learn more about Zebbler's turbulent life in Belarus, check out his blog (reach waay back) at http://www.myspace.com/zebbler
Earlier story about Berkovsky
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