Overview:
The two-venue event will feature live music and DJ dance sets.
The Prison Books Project provides free books to incarcerated people, a noble effort that helps improve damaged lives and break the destructive societal cycle that creates repeat offenders. To support the organization, a two-venue benefit event featuring performances by musicians Mark Trecka and Simon Keogh and live DJ sets will take place on June 12 at Binnacle Books and Happy Valley in Beacon.
Singer, sound artist, and writer Trecka is a resident artist at Palestine’s Radio Alhara and has presented workshops on intermedial sound art practices for Dia Art Foundation. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, theNew Inquiry, Salon, Vice, Medicine for a Nightmare, and other outlets. His new album, Romance Wake Naming, is out now on The Garrote Records and features guest appearances by Paul Barker (Ministry, Revolting Cocks).
Trecka and Keough will play at Binnacle Books on June 12 at 7:30pm. Following the concert, a No Tears dance party featuring DJs Andrey Netboy and Hardly Quinn will jump off at Happy Valley, a few blocks up Main Street.
The Prison Books Project partners with local bookstores to order the books, connect with individual sponsors, pack up the books, and send them to the person who made the request. Since February 2020, the project has sent over 9,000 books to people incarcerated in the Hudson Valley and throughout New York State.
The Prison Books Project benefit will start with performances by Mark Trecka and Simon Keough at Binnacle Books in Beacon on June 12 at 7:30pm. The affiliated No Tears dance party will begin at Happy Valley in Beacon on June 12 at 8:30pm. Donations will be accepted at the door of each venue.
