ORKESTAR KRIMINAL

Presented by Luminato Festival

Saturday, June 13, 2026

Harbourfront Centre & Drom Taberna

The Artists

For 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 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 their first ever all-originals

album Originali in March, 2024 on the German label CPL-Music, with Grammy award-winning

Producer-Engineer: Mark Lawson, hitting the #1 spot on the Earshot “National International” charts.

Drenched in expression, celebrated and improvised, this is "cabaret noir" at its finest

Locations: Green Lawn Stage, Harbourfront Centre & Drom Taberna