Gogol Bordello To Play Gypsy Benefit Concert

Gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello will play a benefit concert June 9 in New York at Irving Plaza to raise awareness about the Romani Jag Organization.

Located in the Carpathian Mountains in west Ukraine, Romani Jag is a small organization that helps educate young gypsies and monitors anti-Roma police brutality in Ukraine.

The concert will attempt to raise awareness and open a discussion about what is happening to Roma Gypsies in Ukraine.

“Roma is in a vicious circle of poverty and prejudice and have been turned into public scapegoats for failures of government,” says Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz. “By supporting Romani Jag, we want to help with cultural rehabilitation and more importantly on breaking stereotypes of gypsies.”

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