This multi-award-winning, 3x Juno-nominated and Billboard charting band creates “energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” (Maverick, UK). For more than a decade, Sultans of String have thrilled audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, Flamenco, Hot Club Jazz, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian rhythms. The group celebrates musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity, with world rhythms that excite audiences to their feet!

Join us Saturday May 15 for our Livestream Concert!

Come join our community of collaborators from the Refuge album, with Special guests flamenco dancer Tamar Ilana, Iranian daf player Naghmeh Farahmand, Greek oud player Demetrios Petsalakis, and more!

TICKETS: https://sultansmay15.eventbrite.ca

New album out now

Refuge is a fantastic, moving, dreamlike, and timely album, a collaboration with over 30 musicians for a wide-ranging treatise on displaced peoples. The concert will feature Ifrah Mansour, Robi Botos, Tamar Ilana, Amir Amiri, Dr. Duke Redbird, Ahmed Moneka, Fethi Nadjem, Anwar Khurshid, Anh Phung, Donné Roberts and Yukiko Tsutsui.

More info: Read more about the album or listen/purchase now.

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4 May 2021 / Read

Tix avail now – May 15 livestream, and some great news!

Hi all, I hope you are all okay and staying safe out there,,, We are so very grateful for those who have been attending our Livestream concerts. It has been so wonderful for us to keep in touch with you through these difficult times. For those who have not attended one of our Zoom shows […]

24 April 2021 / Read

Livestream Tonight – Benefit concert for Environmental Defence

CONCERT TONIGHT! Join Sultans of String tonight at 7:00 pm for a special Livestream concert, supporting Environmental Defence! We will be playing some of the new songs off our Refuge album, as well as a couple of our eco-favourites Luna and Sable Island… Joined by special guests Duke Redbird, Rebecca Campbell, and Tamar Ilana! TIX: […]

12 April 2021 / Read

CFMA Win Celebration Concert Tomorrow night! (Tuesday)

Hello friends, I am so thrilled and so very grateful, for Sunday I won Producer of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards with our Sultans of String Refuge album, along with co-producer John “Beetle” Bailey! It has been such a strange year, and in some ways I felt like COVID swallowed up this recording, […]

10 April 2021 / Read

Producers of the Year at the CFMAs with Refuge album!!

Oh gosh! John Bailey and I won Producers of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards with our Refuge album!! Thanks a million to fellow band-members, Kevin Laliberte, Eddie Paton, Drew Birston, Rosendo Chendy Leon, and all the incredible collaborators on this epic record. And of course to fantastic co-producer John Bailey for his mad […]

8 April 2021 / Read

CFMAs, New Video, Upcoming Livestream Concerts

Hello friends, I hope you are all well and keeping safe out there. In the continued absence of any in-person gigs, we continue to do our part creating livestream content for you to enjoy in the safety of our own home! 1) First off – Thanks to all those who attended our livestream a couple […]

11 March 2021 / Read

JUNO Nomination! and March 21 Livestream to your home!

JUNO ALERT!!! They just announced a JUNO Awards nomination for Engineer of the Year today for our engineer extraordinaire and co-producer John Bailey with a track from our Sultans of String Refuge album! This was for work with our song The Grand Bazaar featuring Béla Fleck and Robi Botos/ We are so proud of John – his work is incredible […]

Refuge

O Canada

Christmas Caravan

10 – Ten Years of Music (vinyl)

Subcontinental Drift

Symphony!

Move

Yalla Yalla!

Luna

The Complete Collection

15 May 2021 SOS Zoom Room Online, CA. Come join our community of collaborators from the Refuge album, with Special guests Leen Hamo, Waleed Abdulhamid, flamenco dancer Tamar Ilana, Iranian daf player Naghmeh Farahmand, Greek oud player Demetrios Petsalakis, and more! Tickets

07 June 2021 Hamilton Arts Week ONLINE, CA.

26 June 2021 The Cotton Factory ONLINE Hamilton, CA.

09 July 2021 City of Cambridge – Celebration of the Arts Cambridge, ON CA.

17 July 2021 Old Church Theatre Trenton, ON CA. Whaaat? An actual in-person gig! Cool! Tickets

21 August 2021 Gravenhurst Opera House Gravenhurst, ON CA. 705-687-5550. Tickets

17 December 2021 Christmas Caravan Annapolis Symphony Annapolis, MD US.

20 December 2021 Christmas Caravan Harmony Concerts Ottawa, ON CA. Tickets

26 March 2022 Symphony show Buffalo Philharmonic Buffalo, NY US. Tickets

09 April 2022 Edmunds Art Center Edmunds, WA US.

17 July 2022 Norwood Village Green Concerts Norwood, NY US.

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Refuge Project

Addressing the struggles of life on Mother Earth has always inspired Toronto-based quintet, Sultans of String. On their visionary seventh album, Refuge, Sultans of String bring their unique brand of musical synergy and collaboration to bear on 13 songs that speak to the challenges facing the world’s displaced peoples–their stories, their songs, their persistence and their humanity.

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Sultans of String
Full Band

Award-winning band the Sultans of String create “Energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” (Maverick Magazine UK). Thrilling their audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, flamenco, Gypsy-jazz, Arabic, Cuban, and South Asian rhythms, Sultans of String celebrate musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity.