LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA with Ukrainian Village Band

Thursday, December 5, 2024/ Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM

All Ages

Standing

$30 Advance, $35 Day of Show

This is a standing show with an open floor. To request seating or other access accommodations, please go to our .

For Cedar presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra are Toronto's original Slavic-Balkan-Klezmer-Party-Punks. The multi-award-winning ensemble has been heralded as a groundbreaking, genre-bending phenomenon by media and fans alike, and over the past 14 years they have performed all over the world. Please join us in welcoming them back to our stage -and dance floor - with tuba! "charismatic...handsome and ambitious.” - New York Times

Lemon Bucket Orkestra are Toronto's original Slavic-Balkan-Klezmer-Party-Punks. The multi-award-winning ensemble has been heralded as a groundbreaking, genre-bending phenomenon by media and fans alike, and over the past 14 years they have performed all over the world from WOMAD in England and New Zealand and Pohoda in Slovakia, to Festival D’Été in Québec City, and Luminato in Toronto. The Guardian proclaimed that their performances are "gorgeously sung and passionately played".

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. Now they have been weaving that unique blend of energy and emotion onto their upcoming album Cuckoo. Released in May 2024, the new record combines powerful Ukrainian polyphony, driving Balkan rhythms, and modern Western musical elements. This mixture of Eastern Europe and the America's is further elevated with the special feature of Macedonian master trumpeter Nizo Alimov, formerly of Kocani Orkestar.

Along with the worldwide release of the new album, LBO will also be premiering a new video for their title track, Cuckoo. Filmed on Toronto’s iconic Ward's Island, it captures the band in their natural element - taking the viewer through a boisterous, bright, and impassioned journey from a party at the beach to the Balkans. Get on your feet and immerse yourself in this sonic juggernaut if you can. To quote the Winnipeg Free Press, the experience will be: "Amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous!”

To learn more about LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA:

• Visit their website

UVB is a Ukrainian roots and Zabava (event & wedding) band that was founded in 2007.
Their repertoire includes traditional and modern Ukrainian music, as well as their own take on popular, international rock and pop tunes.

UVB sponsors and organizes concerts by popular performers from Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora, organizes a summertime ethno-festival Ivana Kupala and volunteers at a variety of local Ukrainian community events throughout the year, most recently focused on the ongoing war perpetrated against Ukraine. Ukrainian Village Band is proud to serve as the ambassadors of rich and vibrant Ukrainian culture in the Midwest. Wherever they play, people inevitably get up and start moving to polka, waltz, latin, rock, kolomyjky (traditional Ukrainian circle dances) and more...

To learn more about Ukrainian Village Band:

• Visit their website

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