CANDIDATE will be the featured performance on the evening of April 25, 2011 at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea for a benefit in support of PARTICIPANT INC. The band is working on a song based on Each Man Kills The Things He Loves, as sung by Jeanne Moreau in R. W. Fassbinder’s Querelle.

Featuring Jim Fletcher, Gary Indiana, and Kate Valk. CANDIDATE is a band comprised of artist duo Lovett/Codagnone and musician Michele Pauli. The band collaborates with actors to perform songs in which text derives from literary or cinematographic sources.