Expanding the possibilities
of performance
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Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Matt Forsythe
SummerWorks at Union: Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Venue
TD Union Summer Stage
WED AUG 5, 5:30 PM
Co-presented with Union
120 Minutes
Ticket Price
FREE
Lemon Bucket Orkestra are Toronto’s original Slavic brass 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 16 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, Lemon Bucket Orkestra 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 Lemon Bucket Orkestra: 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.
Experience a cultural journey that celebrates the heritage and spirit of Ukraine!
Through our ongoing partnership with Union, SummerWorks curates annual programming for Union Summer – an outdoor stage and market offering free outdoor experiences featuring dynamic live performances, curated food vendors and beat-the-heat beverages and desserts, located directly in front of the Union Station terminal building on Front Street West.
SummerWorks at Union features a diverse and exciting lineup of local artists and acts, offering a mid-week mood-boost to get you through those hot summer weeks.
SummerWorks and Union share a common goal: to celebrate the vibrancy of summer in the city. Through this partnership, we are able to share SummerWorks’ unique programming with a brand new audience, expand the Festival’s community and our geographic footprint, and as always, expand the possibilities of performance!
Please visit the Union Summer website for further/ongoing updates and details.
Lemon Bucket Orchestra
Savage Drums, Screams, Vocals: Os Kar
Sousaphone: Ian Tulloch
Trombone, Vocals: Nathan Dell-Vandenberg
Baritone Horn, Clarinet, Sopilka: Conrad Gluch
Violin & Vocals: Mark Marczyk & James Mckie
Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Max Forster
Flugelhorn: Michael Louis Johnson
Guitar, Vocals: Alex Nahirny
Dance, Percussion, Vocals: Stephania Woloshyn
Co-presented with Union.
All SummerWorks at Union events happen outdoors at the Union Summer TD Stage, located directly in front of the Union Station. Public transit is located directly within Union Station, and there are several Green P parking lots within a short distance of the main terminal building.
All Union Summer events are free to attend and the space is physically-accessible and barrier-free for mobility devices, with a variety of seating and lounging options inside the market area.
Food and beverage is available onsite, with payments made with cash or card.
Please prepare in advance for daily weather conditions. Performances may be delayed or cancelled, due to inclement weather or power outages.
Sensory: loud music
SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Tickets on Sale > July 13th!
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.
