NEW VIDEO and Christmas Caravan rides again!
Hello friends! Check out our NEW VIDEO and SHOWS! So excited to be performing our Christmas Caravan this year with various incredible special guests for different shows, including Ken Whiteley, Rebecca Campbell, Saskia Tomkins, Aviva Chernick, Alberto Suarez, Kristine St-Pierre, Tamar Ilana, Amanda Martinez, Donné Roberts, Shannon Thunderbird, Oakville Choir for Children & Youth, Orchestra […]
NEW Kids Video & Album, and Shows!
Hey everyone! It’s Release Day for the full album LITTLE LEAF , celebrating my 30th Anniversary of recording and touring for children and families!! The greatest honour of my professional life has been to entertain young audiences, while helping make connections to our natural world. Every bug, leaf, and rock can spark curiosity and ultimately […]
FMO SATURDAY Film Pop-Up and Meet ‘n’ Greet
Hey Folks! Meriläinen Music & Sultans of String are pleased to invite Folk Music Ontario delegates to our Saturday Meet ‘n’ Greet, and Pop-Up Film Screening at the Delta Ottawa Hotel. SUITE # 2005 Come SATURDAY 4:30-6:30 pm for gourmet pizza, drinks, and fresh popcorn. We can catch up with Marc and Laura Meriläinen from […]
NEW VIDEO/SINGLE and more!
Hello everyone! Chris McKhool here, and I am so excited to release the second single and video from my new family/children’s album Little Leaf! You can stream A PLACE IN THE CHOIR here: https://ChrisMcKhool.lnk.to/APITC ’A Place in the Choir’ sings of belonging, where every creature – large or small, ordinary or strange – has a […]
Hamilton’s LIVELab: Extreme Surround Sound Tomorrow!
HELLO HAMILTON! You have seen Sultans of String at The Westdale… Now are you ready for EXTREME SURROUND SOUND?!? We are showing our Cannes World Film Festival winning FILM called Walking Through the Fire…. Tomorrow! SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27 at 7:30pm, at LIVELab – a cool space inside McMaster University. It is an engineering marvel. The sound […]
New video and single for families – Little Leaf
Hello everyone! I am so excited to release the first single and video from my new family/children’s album Little Leaf! Here is our new video of the title track. It has long been my dream to shoot a one-take video, and in fact we only took one take of this, filmed on an iPhone in […]
Reserve Now! Concerts, Films, Christmas and Family Shows!
Hello everyone, I am very excited to share our fall touring schedule with you! With Sultans of String we are touring with our Indigenous collaborators in Walking Through the Fire, and we have the film playing at a few locations as well. Then in December we are touring Christmas Caravan with various guests including Ken […]
New Video, and Muskoka Bound!
Hello Friends, I hope you are having a great summer! Just a quick note to let you know I have two fun shows this weekend if you are in Muskoka cottage country! Saturday at 7:30 pm: Don’t miss Sultans of String at the Theatre in the Woods! Billboard-charting, 3x JUNO nominees and Cannes World Film […]
Elbows Up for Canada Day!
Hello friends, both in Canada and abroad! Today is a day to celebrate Canadian values of equality, respect, diversity, fairness, and a commitment to peace, order, and good government. These values are often reflected in Canada’s legal system, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and its emphasis on social justice, multiculturalism, and international peacekeeping. […]
New Video Release and Free Show Tickets
Hey friends, to thank you for being subscribers, we are giving away a pair of tickets to our Walking Through the Fire film that is playing on Thursday night in Aurora, as well as two pairs of tickets to our live Sultans of String quartet “immersive experience” concert in Hamilton on Sunday! We will do […]
Hamilton Arts Week, Aurora, Vandorf, Muskoka and QC
Apologies for the resend, my email program pulled in an old post. here is the real message! Hey friends! I hope you are all well :) Coming up we have some special live concerts featuring our incredible Nyckelharpa player Saskia Tomkins, playing the ancient Swedish instrument that needs to be seen (and heard) to be […]
Chris McKhool to Receive KEY TO THE CITY of BURLINGTON!
This is totally nuts, but true! Burlington Mayor Meed Ward each year chooses a resident whose hard work, talent, efforts and passion have made Burlington a better place to live. And this year she picked ME to receive the KEY TO THE CITY! I am completely knocked out by this, and so very grateful to […]