PHOTO
Photos by Matt Forsythe
BIOGRAPHY
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
VIDEO
“Cuckoo” Official Music Video
“Romano Oro” Live at The Great Hall March 20 2025
AUDIO
QUOTES
“Canada’s version of Gogol Bordello… high energy… punkish anarchy”
Songlines Magazine / Simon Broughton (2024)
“Lemon Bucket Orkestra is pushing the boundaries of traditional world folk music to great success…it is party time!”
Whole Note Magazine / Tiina Kiik (2024)
“...I'll be damned if there is any other artist out there right now doing what this band is doing… There are serious artistic merits here…”
Joshua Macala / Raised by Cassettes (2024)
"Amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous!”
Winnipeg Free Press (2016)
“The band vibrates with an irrepressible passion and playful humor that's impossible to ignore. Their often intricate arrangements manage to feel loose and tight all at once as a series of soloists get caught up in this crazed oom-pah energy to pull out the stops.”
Penguin Eggs Magazine (2018)
"They were just fantastic! They were very well received by the audience and really great to work with!
Tom Frouge, Globalquerque (2018)
“LBO really went off at WOMAD NZ! They were a great bunch of artists to work with and we thoroughly enjoyed having them.”
Emere Wano, Womad New Zealand (2018)
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2015 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS
“WORLD GROUP OF THE YEAR”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra
2015 NOW MAGAZINE READER’S CHOICE AWARDS
“BEST BAND IN TORONTO”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra
2018 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS (NOMINATION)
WORLD MUSIC GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra - If I Had The Strength
2024 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS (NOMINATION)
“GLOBAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo
2016 JUNO AWARDS (NOMINATION)
“WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Moorka
2014 JUNO AWARDS (NOMINATION)
“WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Lume, Lume
ACCOLADES FOR “CUCKOO”
#1 ACROSS CANADIAN FOR 9 WEEKS
Earshot! Canada
SONG OF THE YEAR “PETRUNINO”
Detour Radio / Paul Hartman (Washington DC)
BEST ALBUMS OF 2024 LISTS
Mundofonias / Juan Antonio Vasquez + Araceli Tzigane (Spain)
CBC / Errol Nazareth (Canada)
Around the World / Davy Sims (Northern Ireland)
Hejira World Music Show / WORT-FM (Madison, WI - USA)
Spin the Globe Radio / Scott Stevens (Washington - USA)
Roots and Chords Music (Chicago, IL - USA)
MANAGEMENT AND BOOKING INQUIRIES
MANAGEMENT
Nathan Dell-Vandenberg - EMAIL
CANADA
(Canada) Nicole Rochefort - EMAIL
AIM Booking Agency - WEBSITE
QUEBEC
Gina Brault - EMAIL
Impresaria - WEBSITE
WEST EUROPE
France/Switzerland/Italy/Belgium/Spain
Charley Mougin - EMAIL
ZN Production - WEBSITE
MEXICO
(Bookings/PR) Flor Lopez - EMAIL
Frequency Media MX - WEBSITE
PRIVATE EVENTS AND WEDDINGS
Nathan Dell-Vandenberg - EMAIL