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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...  read more