Photo by Ehud Lazin

Today, Jesse Malin and Ukrainian-born singer Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello released a new collaborative cover of The Pogues’ “If I Should Fall From Grace with God,” via Velvet Elk Records. The song comes with an accompanying music video in front of the One Hundred and Seventh Infantry Memorial near Central Park in New York City, filmed by Ehud Lazin.

“Universe knows Jesse and I bonded over Pogues years ago,” said Hütz,  “and it’s only natural that we sing this anti-colonial song for Ukraine now.  This land was always ours! And no amount of Moscow propaganda can undo оver а thousand уеаrs of history. It is also a natural fit once again, since scientists uncovered that Irish people come from Modern Day Ukraine territory! And guess where I read that?  In the Irish Independent.”  

“As entertainers, we have a voice. We are there to entertain, but music can also raise awareness and support those in need,” added Malin. “Rock and roll has always been about freedom and the people of Ukraine are fighting for their lives and their land. After everything we all have been through in the last few years, I think many of us can relate. As Woody Guthrie said about his guitar, ‘This Machine Kills Fascists’— I have always believed in global unity through music. The universal heartbeat that brings us together. When I first met Eugene and the Gogol Bordello crew, I felt a real kinship seeing how they brought so many cultures and people together with PMA.”

All proceeds from the track will go to the benefit of The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and the development of democracy, a free-market economy and human rights in Ukraine, and the strategic partnership between the U.S. and Ukraine.

Listen to “If I Should Fall from Grace with God” below:

JESSE MALIN UK & US TOUR DATES

**with Brian Fallon

April 29  Debaser Hornstulls Strand, STOCKHOLM**

April 30  Vega, COPENHAGEN**

 May 2  Carlswerk Victoria, COLOGNE**

May 3  Huxley’s Neue Welt, BERLIN**

May 4  Ottakringer Brauerei, VIENNA**

May 5  LKA Longhorn, STUTTGART**

May 6  Neue Theaterfabrik, MUNICH**

May 7  Löwensaal, NUREMBERG**

May 8  Circolo Magnolia, SEGRATE**

May 10  Komplex 457, ZÜRICH**

May 12  Sala Apolo, BARCELONA**

May 13  Sala MON Live MADRID**

May 16  Backstage Paris, PARIS**

May 17  Muziekcentrum Trix, ANTWERP**

May 18  TivoliVredenburg, UTRECHT**

May 23  The New Adelphi Club, HULL

 June 4  Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA 

June 9   Tellus360, Lancaster, PA 

June 10  Colony, Woodstock, NY

June 11  The Hamilton Live, Washington, DC  

June 12  Rams Head On Stage  Annapolis, MD

June 21  Le Pub, NEWPORT

June 22  Dinton Parish Church, AYLESBURY

June 23  Glastonbury Festival, PILTON

June 26  Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, BELFAST

June 28  King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, GLASGOW      

June 29  Pocklington Arts Centre, POCKLINGTON

June 30  Trades Club, HEBDEN BRIDGE

 July 1  Arts Club, LIVERPOOL

July 2  LaFayette, LONDON w/ Kelley Swindall