PHOTO
photo by Keessa Lynch
Photo by Keessa Lynch
BIOGRAPHY
Lemon Bucket Orkestra are Toronto's original guerrilla-folk-party-punks. The award-winning crew has been called frenetic, charismatic, and gloriously anarchic by the New York Times, The Guardian, the Winnipeg Free Press and media across the globe and over the past 14 years have performed all over the world from WOMAD in England and New Zealand and Pohoda in Slovakia, Festival D’Été in Québec City to New Orleans Jazz Fest in Louisiana.
Equal parts exhilarating precision and reckless abandon, LBO live is a truly immersive experience mixing sweat and tears with audience chorales and howling at the moon. You can hear that journey on their latest album Cuckoo (self-released, May 2024). It’s signature LBO: powerful Ukrainian polyphony and driving Balkan rhythms filtered through hip hop, punk and jazz and a whole range of global influences and purpose accrued from their eclectic global journeys and polycultural home city of Toronto alike.
VIDEO
“Cuckoo” Official Music Video
Latest Promo Video
“Goodbye” Live at the Opera House
AUDIO
QUOTES
“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)
"Amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous!”
Winnipeg Free Press (2016)
"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
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
2024 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS (NOMINATION)
“GLOBAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR”
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo