Canada’s genre bending string slingers SULTANS OF STRING celebrate with a feast of raucous reels ragas ‘n’ rumbas at The Arts Station.
Joining them on the disc and stage is special guest/sitar master Anwar Khurshid (Oscar winning Life of Pi).
The band has been on the road non-stop, and will make their debut in The Netherlands and mainland Europe this summer. Sultans of String are celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band, criss-crossing North America and performing at many taste-making forums such as JUNOFest, legendary jazz club Birdland in NYC, and California’s hip music scene, including the San Jose Jazz Festival. They recently performed with Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Maryland’s Annapolis Symphony Orchestras. Sultans of String were filmed by MPBN’s Maine Arts in a feature concert, and performed live on BBC TV, Irish National Radio, and the internationally syndicated shows WoodSongs, World Cafe, and on SiriusXM in Washington.
They are currently recording a festive, world music-inspired Christmas Caravan CD featuring shimmering guest vocalist Rebecca Campbell (Bruce Cockburn, Alanis Morissette, Emmylou Harris), 5x Platinum selling Nikki Yanofsky, The Chieftains’ very own Paddy Moloney, JUNO winner Alex Cuba, Cameroon’s Richard Bona (Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock), Panamanian 7x Grammy winning Ruben Blades, a Turkish orchestra, and more!
