For nearly twenty years, Canada's guerrilla-folk-party-punks, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, have been making music that refuses borders—not because borders don't exist, but because people have always found ways to sing, dance, celebrate, and survive across them.
Eastern European polyphony crashes into punk. Balkan brass collides with reggae. Romani melodies meet Latin American rhythms. Theatre spills into concerts. Concerts become street parties. Audiences become part of the band.
It's less a genre than a chain reaction.
“Canada’s version of Gogol Bordello… high energy… punkish anarchy!”
Songlines Magazine, November 2024, Simon Broughton
Seven records in and five continents crossed, Lemon Bucket has multiple awards and set on fire festivals like Cervantino in Mexico, WOMAD in England and New Zealand, Pohoda in Slovakia, Festival D’Été in Québec City Canada, and the New Orleans Jazz Festival in the USA.
With burning precision and reckless attitude, LBO will pull you into their world while crashing into yours.
“Lemon Bucket Orkestra is pushing the boundaries of traditional world folk music to great success…it is party time!”
Whole Note Magazine, October 2024, Tina Kiik
LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA is: (pictured left to right)
OS KAR (savage drums, screams, vocals), IAN TULLOCH (sousaphone), NATHAN DELL-VANDENBERG (trombone, vocals), CONRAD GLUCH (baritone horn, clarinet, sopilka), MARK MARCZYK (violin, vocals), JAMES McKIE (violin, vocals), MAX FORSTER (trumpet, flugelhorn), MICHAEL LOUIS JOHNSON (flugelhorn), ALEX NAHIRNY (guitar, vocals), STEPHANIA WOLOSHYN (dance, percussion, vocals)
ART + DESIGN by Nathan Dell-Vandenberg