Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne to Perform at CORE Livestream Benefit Concert

Arcade Fire rockers Win Butler and Régine Chassagne will help Sean Penn and Ann Lee celebrate CORE’s 15th anniversary by performing at an inaugural livestream benefit concert.

The special event is set to take place at the Ross House in Los Angeles on Dec. 9, and will be hosted by Penn and Lee with help from E! News personality Justin Sylvester. The CORE team confirmed an A-list host committee that includes Brad Pitt, CAA chief Bryan Lourd, Garcelle Beauvais, Jeremy Strong, Jewel, Julia Roberts, NKSFB’s Kevin Kanegai, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mattel Film’s Robbie Brenner, filmmaker Scott Cooper and Sharon Stone.

The in-person event will be a private, invite-only affair curated with VIP guests, however, the public is invited to attend via livestream courtesy of Laurel Canyon Live, a dedicated app for donors worldwide to tune in and experience the immersive live music event. Additional performers are expected.

Money raised will benefit CORE’s emergency response fund, which helps to power an average of 12 emergency responses each year, disaster case management, cash and voucher assistance, home repairs, relocation support and rapid deployment wherever families are most in need. Efforts are currently underway in North Carolina, Georgia, Jamaica, Haiti, Ukraine, Sudan and Los Angeles, where CORE is deep in a multi-year recovery following January’s catastrophic wildfires.

Since it was founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, CORE has emerged as a powerful and nimble global humanitarian organization that focuses underserved and marginalized communities. Over the past five years, CORE has raised more than $300 million, responded to 21 domestic and 15 international crises and reached more than 13.5 million people worldwide.

Arcade Fire has its own history with Haiti. Chassagne was born in Montreal, Canada to Haitian parents who fled the country in the 1960s. To honor her heritage, Chassagne co-founded the organization KANPE with Dominique Anglade with a mission of accomplishing two goals, according to the org’s website, “to unite the diaspora and those committed to the Haitian cause in developing locally tailored solutions and to establish a sustainable model to fight poverty by empowering the most vulnerable communities.”

News of Arcade Fire joining the CORE benefit comes on the heels of an announcement that Butler and Chassagne — bandmates and romantic partners of 20 years — have split. “After a long and loving marriage, Win and Regine have decided to separate,” reads an Instagram post shared on Oct. 30. “They continue to love, admire and support each other as they co-parent their son. Their work in Haiti with KANPE continues and their bond as creative soulmates will endure, as will Arcade Fire.”