Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is Canada’s only balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk-super-band. Born on the streets of Toronto as a busking band in 2010, the original quartet of guerrilla-folk troubadours quickly amassed a battalion of troops armed with brass and bows and started touring the world. LBO has been nominated for several awards, heralded as ground-breaking by international media, and has performed at international festivals across the globe, but their greatest achievement is their ability to embody the dynamic space between “home” and “exotic” and to welcome audiences into the celebration of that space.
Their new album, Moorka, was recorded in a friend’s barn in Waterloo right after their three month Canadian tour and was released in March 2015. It will include re-worked folk songs the band learned in Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Macedonia from local virtuosos on their last European tour, each tune spiked with a unique blend of funk, punk, psychedelia, blues and swing to give it that now infamous LBO momentum.