Lemon Bucket has also performed all over the world from WOMAD in England and New Zealand, Pohoda in Slovakia, Festival D’Été in Québec City and to New Orleans Jazz Fest in Louisiana.

Founding member Mark Marczyk met bartender and musician Michael Louis Johnson in 2009 after returning to Toronto from Kyiv, Ukraine.

It was at after parties for the Savages' shows that eventual members of the band, such as Tangi Ropars and Os Kar, joined in on late-night jam sessions.

[1] Eventually, the concept for the band was solidified during a conversation between founding members Mark Marczyk and Tangi Ropars in a Vietnamese restaurant in Toronto.

[6] In 2012, The Lemon Bucket Orkestra made headlines (such as CNN, CBC, Fox News and CTV), on their way to Romania for a three-week tour of the country, when they played an impromptu concert on a delayed Air Canada flight.

[24][25] On July 8, 2013, the group embarked on a third tour of east Europe, visiting Germany, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and the Czech Republic.

[26][27] In 2012 and 2013, the group sold out Toronto venue Lee's Palace three times: October 31, 2012, a Hallowe'en themed show; March 16, 2013, celebrating the band's third birthday and St. Patrick's day; and again on May 25, 2013, when they brought Friends Gypsy Kumbia and Roma Carnivale from Montreal.

[37] In mid-2014, the band embarked on its first cross-Canada tour, playing in various locations across Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia.

[41] Between January and February 2015, members of the group took part in a critically acclaimed dinner theatre performance, Counting Sheep, about the ongoing Euromaidan written by bandleader Mark Marczyk and Marichka Kudriavtseva.

[44][1] In October, they teamed up with a Korean Folk Ensemble Dulsori in South Korea, spending three weeks performing, as well as creating and recording music.