Arcade Fire toured with instrumentalists.
Arcade Fire . The band plays guitar , drums , bass guitar , piano , violin , viola , cello , double bass , xylophone , glockenspiel , keyboard , synthesizer , French horn , accordion , harp , mandolin , and hurdy-gurdy , and takes most of these instruments on tour ; the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows . Jeremy Gara ( born June 6 , 1978 ) is a Canadian drummer from Ottawa , Ontario . Edwin Farnham `` Win '' Butler III ( born April 14 , 1980 ) is an American-Canadian lead vocalist , multi-instrumentalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire .