Matt Forsythe

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!

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