Gogol Bordello

Years active: 1999 - today
Foundation: New York City, New York, United States
Members: Eugene Hütz (Voice-Guitar-Percussions), Sergey Ryabtsev (Violin), Yuri Lemeshev (Accordion), Thomas Gobena (Guitar), Oren Kaplan (Guitar), Eliot Ferguson (Bass), Pamela Racine (Drums), Elizabeth Sun (Persussioni-Coro), Pedro Erazo (Percussions-Coro)
Genre: Punk

Starting members meet at a Russian wedding in Vermont, 1998.

FIRST SHOW -- No official first show... from party to party, gallery to gallery, GB is a growing snow-ball orchestra of immigrants jamming in A-minor...

Banned from CB/GB, Mercury Lounge, Fez and Bowery Ballroom immediately after first performances for being too over the mothefucking top...

Instead joins forces with Performance...  [read more]