Orkestar Kriminal / Birdbone Theatre

Orkestar Kriminal perform live at the Hotel! 
Birdbone Theatre open the night with their famous “Broom Dance” performance!

TICKETS:
Advance: $20.50 and can be purchased online: https://orkestar-birdbone.brownpapertickets.com
Door: $25

ORKESTAR KRIMINAL

“Imagine a 10-member gender-balanced band that sources material from the criminal underworld a century ago, performing songs in eight languages with quirky instrumentation and a punk attitude” – Edmonton Journal

“Seduced us right off the bat!” — La Fabrique Culturelle

“They’re the frenetic, hyperbolic version of the wildest live show you don’t have the musical vocabulary to lie to your kids about catching. They sing tales in more languages than I can count, borrowed from the underground legends of criminals the world over.” – DMNDR

“Exciting and tear-jerking all at once!” – Le Devoir

For almost a dozen years now, Orkestar Kriminal has created daring arrangements of old underworld ballads in 12 different languages, telling the tales of impoverished peoples the world over, driven to a life of crime. With their unique instrumentation (upright bass, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, musical saw, bouzouki, baglamas, electric surf guitar, drums, piccolo, flute, violin, accordion, organ, voice) and a refreshing gender-mashup in their musicianship, Orkestar Kriminal has arranged some of the world’s long-forgotten criminal ballads with all the fervour and gusto that they could muster. After continuous touring and a multitude of festival performances, the biggest criminal punks in world music released Razlomanye Ryobra in 2020, hitting the #1 spot on the Earshot “National International” charts. Orkestar Kriminal is now fired-up with “Originali”, their first ever all-originals album produced by Grammy award-winning Producer-Engineer: Mark Lawson, out March 15th, 2024 on CPL-Music.

Along with their original Yiddish, Greek and Spanish compositions, Orkestar Kriminal worked extensively with native-speaking linguistic collaborators from all over the world to compose lyrics in Hindi, Mixteco, Arabic, Polish, Bosnian and Norwegian Bokmål. With all these nuanced, stylized arrangements, and 9 different languages featured, “Originali” is the band’s most ambitious album yet. Their bittersweet melodies are delightfully infectious, so for Orkestar Kriminal, there is no turning back. Drenched in expression, celebrated and improvised, this is “cabaret noir” at its finest!

https://orkestarkriminal.bandcamp.com

BIRDBONE THEATRE’S “BROOM DANCE”

Broom Dance is a work of shadow puppet theatre, a luminous bow of song and cut paper to wild dark and winter night. A story house for wild forest-bound Baba Yaga, hearth-keeping, gift-giving Befana, and wild-tending Holy Mother of Wolves. Birdbone Theatre makes puppet shows from scratch and plays them live for the young and the old. We strive to make puppet theatre that might become a house for beauty, for remembering old songs and stories, for wild imaginings and for laughter in hard times.

Birdbone Theatre makes puppet shows from scratch and plays them live for the young and the old. We strive to make puppet theatre that might become a house for beauty, for remembering old songs and stories, for wild imaginings and for laughter in hard times.

https://www.birdbonetheatre.org/