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GRAND PRAIRIE LIVE THEATRE presents Revved-up Roots String Wizards/6x CFMA winners SULTANS OF STRING!WED NOV 25, 2026 – 7:30pm MDT
Led by Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal recipient and fiddler Chris McKhool, Sultans of String are an “energetic and exciting band with talent to burn!” (Maverick Magazine UK). Thrilling their audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, Django-jazz, Flamenco and Middle Eastern rhythms, Sultans of String celebrate musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar, while bass and nyckelharpa lay down unstoppable grooves. Throughout, acoustic strings meet electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound.
Together they tell stories of Canada through live music, such as the wild horses of Sable Island, Luna the orca off the West Coast, a sunrise in the Arctic Circle’s Auyuittuq Park and more!
McKhool (Jesse Cook, Pavlo) comes by global roots music through deep ties to his ancestry – his father’s name would have been pronounced Makhoul in ancestral Kfirmishki Lebanon, and his Cairo-born mother happened to play piano, teach classical theory and feed her young son as much music instruction as she did Middle Eastern cuisine. From there, the powerful violinist developed a taste for multi-genre string sounds and found a like-minded crew of all-world enthusiasts. When McKhool first heard the rumba rhythm of founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté (Jesse Cook), their musical synergy created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship between violin and guitar. From this rich foundation, the dynamic duo grew, featuring such amazing musical friends as in-the-pocket bass master Drew Birston (Chantal Kreviazuk) and the virtuosic nyckelharpa playing of Saskia Tomkins (Celtic music consultant for the Broadway hit Come From Away).
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Grande Prairie Live Theatre, 10130 98 Avenue,Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
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