About
About the LVO
The London Vegetable Orchestra (LVO) is the UK's only ensemble offering audiences ‘Home Grown’ entertainment.
The instruments are made up of hand-crafted vegetables, and they sound as incredible as they look!
The LVO formed in 2010, while studying at the Royal Academy of Music, and all members are professional musicians.
The LVO features a mouth-watering selection of courgettes, peppers, potatoes, swedes and butternut squash, accompanying a soaring line-up of carrot recorders, which are made by resident recorder-making superstar, Tim Cranmore.
The LVO have performed across the UK and around the world. Their work includes private events, educational and instrument-crafting workshops, advertising campaigns, online collabs, and of course live performances.
The LVO have collaborated with pop star Mika, and they appeared in an advertising project for LG, which reached 40 million hits worldwide.
They have appeared many times on national TV including This Morning, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (performing with Gary Barlow), Room 101, CBBC’s The Slammer, The Chris McCausland Show, James Martin’s Saturday Morning, and Let’s Do Lunch with Gino and Mel.
Recent radio appearances include Saturday Morning with Hannah French (BBC Radio 3), Jeremy Vine (BBC Radio 2), The Ray D'Arcy Show (RTÉ Radio 1), The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk), Shay Kaur Grewal (BBC Radio London), and Saturday Morning with Tom Service (BBC Radio 3).
In 2024, the LVO starred in 'The Farmonic Orchestra', a West End show in collaboration with Ginsters Pasties, featuring Merryn the Farmer.
THE UK'S ONLY VEGETABLE ORCHESTRA!
At Christmas 2024, a video of the LVO's performance of Jingle Bells, performed on BBC Radio 3, went viral on Instagram, quickly gaining over 12 million views, and earning them new fans all over the world.
In April 2025, The LVO was invited by King Charles III to perform at a reception at Windsor Castle, and during the event, the King joined them for an impromptu performance of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, with His Majesty playing the carrot.
Footage of this was shown on news channels worldwide, leading to further interest in the LVO, and TV appearances on BBC Breakfast, ITV News, Channel 5 News (with Dan Walker), Ireland AM (with Síomha Ní Ruairc, Eric Roberts and Martin King), and Good Morning Britain, where the LVO performed with presenters Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh.
The LVO's performance with The King was featured on TV shows such as Jimmy Kimmel (USA) and Have I Got News for You (UK), plus the magazine Private Eye.
They've been featured on TV shows in the USA (including NBC, with Willie Geist), Australia (Today Extra), and in the Philippines, and in December 2025, appeared on stage at the Clapham Grand with Greg James and Alice Levine.
In January 2026, the LVO joined forces with HelloFresh and superstar La Voix, appearing as 'The HelloFresh Kitchen Orchestra', to promote spending quality time together at meal times. The LVO composed and recorded a jingle for the campaign, with La Voix on lead vocals. You can watch the video of their performance on London's South Bank here.
The LVO now have over 40,000 followers, and their videos are watched on Instagram and TikTok by thousands of veg-loving musical connoisseurs across the globe every day.
If you would like to know more about the London Vegetable Orchestra, please visit the Contact page, or email contact@londonvegetableorchestra.com.
