A look at the Ukrainian Village's music history, including a memorable 1981 New Order concert, Gogol Bordello's wild sets, and more
New Order Played the Ukrainian National Home In 1981, just over a year after front man Ian Curtis’s death, the surviving members of Joy Division, now known as New Order, played a concert at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue. Stephen Morris, the drummer for both bands, remembers the show.
Welcome to the Ukrainian Festival, 1978. Painting by Yaroslava Surmach Mills. Illustration: Reverse painting on cellulose acetate. Rights and reproduction © Nik Mills. Courtesy of the Ukrainian Museum. Courtesy of the Surmach Family. ➼ The History of the LES Immigrant Enclave➼ What the Neighbors RememberWhen we turned up at the Ukrainian National Home, we were expecting it to be sort of like St. Basil’s Cathedral with those things on top, and it wasn’t.
From left: Yaryna Turianska, Eugene Hütz, and Sergey Ryabtsev rehearse before a performance in 2000. Photo: Jason Eksuzian / Yara Arts Group I started coming to Ukrainian places in the East Village before I even moved here. I was drawn to it, the density of the Ukrainian culture. In Kyiv, where I grew up, the Soviets drilled it into people’s heads that we had to eradicate Ukrainian culture. You’d hit pockets of Ukrainian culture in Kyiv, but it was pretty diluted.
I always carried my guitar, and I walked into the bar Lys Mykyta, “Sly Fox,” in the Ukrainian National Home and said, “I want to play a small set of Ukrainian songs.” The dude was like, “When do you want to begin?” I was like, “Right now.” It was five o’clock. So I did it. And after that, I walked around the corner into Blue & Gold and did the same thing. I just wanted to play Ukrainian songs in Ukrainian bars in New York.
Maria Sonevytsky: My connection to the Ukrainian National Home goes back to my early childhood. I grew up in the Ukrainian diaspora outside New York City. We would come in every weekend for Plast. And sometimes that would end up with a meal at the Ukrainian National Home. My grandmother actually lived just above it. I moved to New York in 2001, and I booked Debutante Hour’s first show at the Ukrainian National Home in 2007.
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