This fourth in-person sliver day of our 2021 Something Else! Festival Series at the Bay, is also a Watch it Burn! event, consists of two beauties; LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA bringing with them the infectiously joyous energy, and the invigorating, life-affirming melancholy of the Balkans, followed by a screening of LATCHO DROM (part 1), the remarkable Tony Gatlif documentary on Romany culture.
5:00 pm — Lemon Bucket Orchestra
6:30 pm — Dinner
7:00 pm — Latcho Drom (part 1)
PAY WHAT YOU CAN… Suggested donation $15+ at the door or via Eventbrite + dinner by donation… NO ONE WILL BE REFUSED ENTRY FOR LACK OF FUNDS.
LEMON BUCKET ORCHESTRA
LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA are Toronto's original guerrilla-folk party-punk massive. The multi-award-winning ensemble has been heralded as a groundbreaking, genre-bending phenomenon by media and fans alike, and over the past 8 years have performed all over the world from WOMAD in 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" and The New York Timesdeclared them "charismatic...handsome and ambitious.”
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 - and they have expertly captured that unique blend of energy and emotion on their most recent album If I Had The Strength, with guest appearances from famed soprano Measha Brueggergosman, rising Latino rapper Boogát, sing-a-long phenoms Choir!Choir!Choir! and more.
LATCHO DROM
LATCHO DROM is a 1993 film by Tony Gatlif. The journey of the Romany people told through musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain, a unique musical documentary tracing the Romani people’s migration from Northwestern India to Spain over the course of more than a thousand years. Through an extraordinary variety of song, music, and dance, director/writer Tony Gatlif brings Romani history to life. This vibrant musical heritage stands as a counterpoint to the darker realities of persecution faced by a nomadic culture in which family, honour and tradition are as essential to survival as water, transportation and food.
This event was made possible with kind support from Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, & the City of Hamilton.
