Frenetic and exhilarating, Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a multi-award-winning ensemble known for their “guerilla-folk party-punk” style. The thirteen-piece band is comprised of world class musicians wielding an eclectic collection of instruments, resulting in a musical mashup of Eastern European folk with Western interpretation.

The multi-award-winning ensemble has been heralded as a groundbreaking, genre-bending phenomenon by media and fans alike, and over the past 13 years they have performed all over the world from New Zealand to Slovakia, Quebec City and Toronto, and now they’re returning to Fredericton for the first time in nine years.

Equal parts exhilarating precision and reckless abandon, LBO’s live shows are a truly immersive experience ranging from the ecstatic to the cathartic and all points in between. Their new record Cuckoo combines powerful Ukrainian polyphony, driving Balkan rhythms, and modern Western musical elements. This mixture of Eastern Europe and the Americas is further elevated with the special feature of Macedonian master trumpeter Nizo Alimov, formerly of Kocani Orkestar.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra is: Ian Tulloch (sousaphone), Os Kar (savage drums, screams), Marichka Marczyk (vocals), Michael Louis Johnson (trumpet), Julian Selody (saxophone), Jaash Singh (darbouka), Alex Nahirny (guitar, vocals), Mark Marczyk (violin, vocals), Stephania Woloshyn (dance, percussion, vocals), Nathan Dell-Vanderberg (trombone, vocals), James McKie (violin), and Max Forster (trumpet).