As you do the holiday party hop around town, put the Holiday Benefit Jam on your list. It’s the fourth year for the event which has raised nearly $20,000 for local nonprofits. This year, the Family Kitchen is the beneficiary of money raised.
The Jam is organized by Jarrod Donatelli and his wife, Holly McClintock, who own ZenArt Ink Studios in Bend.
“Bend has been so good to the studio over the years and we just wanted to give back and give thanks,” Donatelli told the Source. “We wanted to create something that felt like family and was all local.”
Donatelli is also a member of Fractal, an organic jamtronica band that began in 2019. Fractal released its debut EP, “Into the Stratosphere,” in March 2024. He’s the percussionist in the five-piece with Ethan Ebersold on keys and synth, Matt Fletcher on drums, Kyle Swantek on bass and Dan Koval plays guitar.
“We are known for high energy dance shows with different setlists every show,” Donatelli says.
Fractal performs for free at the benefit jam. Fellow festival/show promoter Gabe Johnson of Parallel 44 Presents helps run the show. The Spencer Marlyn Band and Maxwell Friedman Group will also take the stage.
“When we get all our music friends together like this we like to call it our Jamily!” Donatelli says. “Maxwell is back in town from music school in NYC so his band is doing a small December tour with our event included in their run, and Spencer Marlyn Band just dropped a new album a couple weeks ago.”
All of the ticket sales will go to Family Kitchen. Sponsors, such as Somni Studios, which donates its sound engineering each year, help Donatelli keep costs down. Funds left over from other financial sponsors such as El Sancho, Fire on the Mountain, Skjersaa Group and Erica Swantek Photography will also go to Family Kitchen, Donatelli said.
He landed on Family Kitchen as this year’s beneficiary after volunteering at the nonprofit, which provides more than 12,000 meals each month in Bend, Redmond and Sisters. Family Kitchen is part of the Central Oregon Gives campaign and told the Source in a recent article that demand is growing while food prices are rising. Donatelli says the event at the Domino Room on Friday, Dec. 12, is for all ages. The first band starts at 7:15pm with the jam ending at midnight.
Holiday Benefit Jam
Fri, Dec 12 6pm
The Domino Room
51 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend
midtownballroom.com/calendar
$20
This article appears in the Source December 11, 2025.
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