Lemon Bucket Orkestra
​There's nothing like a community dance in the middle of the winter. We invited the Lemon Bucket Orkestra to heat up the night of the full moon in February, 2020
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The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a guerilla-punk-balkan-folk-brass band massive like no other. They started on the streets of Toronto as a quartet of busking troubadours and then quickly amassed a battalion of like-minded musical souls and the full-blown, dozen plus strong Orkestra was born. They have been heralded as a groundbreaking, genre-bending phenomenon by Canadian and international media and over the past 8 years they have performed on streets and stages around the world. A Lemon Bucket Orkestra performance is an extraordinary interactive event with exquisite dancing, storytelling, traditional/contemporary/klezmatic full sound music expressing pathos and joy.
They offered a free workshop on Eastern European social dancing accompanied by the full orkestra. When do you ever get to go to a dance workshop with a full band providing the music?
Thirty enthusiastic souls from ages 8 to 80 had a full work out, learned a lot of new steps and had a lot of fun.
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And then over 150 people poured into the legion hall and danced through the evening. By the last song all but a few were on the dance floor surrounding the band as they brought the evening to a tumultuous close and left us with the invocation to go out into the streets and yell peace.
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And so we did!
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