MUSIC News
Work has been underway since Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s festival performance at ¡Globalquerque! 2018 to bring them them back to New Mexico.
¡Globalquerque! and the City of Albuquerque present Lemon Bucket Orkestra in concert Wednesday, Aug. 3.
The Guardian said Lemon Bucket Orkestra performances are “gorgeously sung and passionately played” and The New York Times called them “charismatic…handsome and ambitious”.
Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s (LBO) repertoire and inspiration comes from a myriad of folk traditions across Eastern Europe, including, notably, Ukraine. Their work draws emotional weight from the band’s personal experiences with the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but also highlights the 12-piece ensemble’s party-punk roots and attitude, developed and honed since their formative days busking on the streets of Toronto.
“We start in a musty train car overlooking the fields and valleys of our youth through permanently smudged windows, reflecting on the life that once was and wondering how we can face our mothers, with the horrifying fact that we will never be the beloved boys or girls we once were,” said Lemon Bucket Orkestra ringleader Mark Marczyk. “Then, with a sudden jolt we are transported to the memory of what led us to this moment and we’re sprinting for dear life in a struggle to keep ahead of our past selves. It is a navigation between the shaky train car and a series of flashbacks – in the language of eastern European folklore – the main site of resistance and celebration for the LBO for more than a decade.”
Come find out why the Winnepeg Free Press proclaimed LBO to be “amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous!”.
Members of the the multi-cultural group – who are led by Ukranian-Canadian couple Mark and Marichka Marczyk – will also present a timely pre-show talk and Q&A on Ukraine’s (and Eastern Europe’s) rich music traditions, culture and how it informs their contemporary music, work and activism.
All tickets are $20 and available here.
Note: 25 percent of proceeds will go to support World Central Kitchen’s efforts to feed Ukrainian refugees and families in Ukraine via their #ChefsForUkraine initiative.
