Presented by Lemon Bucket Orkestra & Small World Music

ATTENTION: Boban Markovic Orkestra has cancelled their North American tour and will no longer be performing the festival. Please contact info@smallworldmusic.com or 416 536 5439 regarding refunds. The good news is that the Brass will go on!

Let's get loud. We're teaming up with the cats at Small World Music Society (with whom we brought you dakhabrakha and Fanfare Ciocarlia) to create a TWO-NIGHT bad-ass brass festival with some of the best blowers at home and abroad!

Yup. Boban Marković cancelled on us. It sucks. But we’ve been working hard over the past couple of weeks to make it up to you. And what we’ve come up with is going to KICK ASS. Like GUCA meets MARDI GRAS meets CARNIVALE meets NEW YEAR’S EVE meets THE END OF THE WORLD. Twice.

FULL LINE UP:
Friday, March 11th - The BRASH! Begins
Doors at 9pm @ The Opera House, 19+

Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra (balkan brass meets columbian grooves)

Rambunctious (improvised new orleans party brass)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra (balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk-super-band)

$20 Advance / $30 Door
Buy tix here


Saturday, March 12th - Even More BRASH!
Doors at 9pm @ The Opera House, 19+

Detroit Party Marching Band (manic 21-piece brass-punk)

The Shuffle Demons (heavy dance street funk)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Toronto’s “best band”)

$20 Adance / $30 Door
Buy tix here



Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Canada's only balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk-super-band!

Born on the streets of Toronto as a busking band in 2010, the original quartet of guerrilla-folk troubadours quickly amassed a battalion of troops armed with brass and bows and started touring the world. LBO has been nominated for several awards, heralded as ground-breaking by international media, and has performed at international festivals across the globe, but their greatest achievement is their ability to embody the dynamic space between "home" and "exotic" and to welcome audiences into the celebration of that space.

"Adventurously multicultural... amazing" - Wall Street Journal


LBO's members have even gone as far as the eastern front of the war in Ukraine, using their music as catharsis, support, and even a platform for storytelling and information sharing in a political arena obfuscated by propaganda and misinformation. Their most recent performance project, Counting Sheep, is an interactive video-music-theatre-dinner-play that tells the story of the Maidan Revolution through traditional central and eastern Ukrainian choral songs and welcomes audience members to feel what band-members Mark Marczyk and Marichka Kudriavtseva felt when the protests in Kyiv escalated and snipers opened fire just over a year ago.

"If there was a way to battle the unbridled energy of Lemon Bucket Orkestra's music and gigs, you'd have to slap a sticker on the contents with warning, Flammable Material" - Toronto Sun

Their new album, Moorka, was recorded in a friend's barn in Waterloo right after their 3-month Canadian tour and was released in March 2015. It will include re-worked folk songs the band learned in Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, and Macedonia from local virtuosos on their last European tour, each tune spiked with a unique blend of funk, punk, psychadelia, blues and swing to give it that now infamous LBO momentum.

"amazing frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous" - Winnipeg Free Press