Sultans of String's Christmas Caravan - Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Schedule
Fri Dec 19 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Burlington Performing Arts Centre | Burlington, ON
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Our Christmas Caravan show features special guests Amanda Martinez, Ken Whiteley, Saskia Tomkins, Rebecca Campbell, Alberto Suarez, Kristine St-Pierre, and the Oakville Choir for Children and Youth! This is a PAY WHAT YOU CAN show!As winter crests and the mercury falls, everyone from your taxi driver to the music supervisor at the mall starts running timeless hits like “Jingle Bells” and “Silent Night.” But for their Christmas Caravan show and album (which hit Billboard’s World Music Charts and The New York Times Hits List), Canada’s global groove wizards Sultans of String celebrate the holiday spirit with an adventurous musical trip around the world, featuring exuberant originals, world-music inspired classics, and seasonal favourites to warm your heart on a cold winter’s night.
From fiery fiddle tunes to a Caribbean sleigh ride, this surprising and delightful holiday fiesta heats up when Sultans of String bring their signature sound to well known gems such as “Little Drummer Boy,” “Jesu,” “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” a Turkish twist on “Greensleeves,” “Silent Night,” as well as a django-jazz inspired “Django Christmas,” and a Rumba-Flamenca fuelled “Jingle Bells.”
Christmas Caravan is also a special awareness and fundraising bash for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). As UNHCR fundraising partners, the band has raised over $11,000.
“Helping refugees is a cause we care about deeply – with more than 122 million people forcibly displaced worldwide in desperate need of our support. They have every right to live a safe and dignified life as much as we do,” says McKhool.
Sultans of String
Led by fiddler player and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal recipient Chris McKhool, these global groove wizards are an “energetic and exciting band with talent to burn!” (Maverick Magazine UK). Thrilling their audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, Flamenco, Django-jazz, 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.
“Perfect, joyful music performed by perfect musicians.”
The WholeNote
“An amazing worldbeat Christmas where even the tried and true is taken to such new and amazing lengths. Very hot stuff clearly made to chase the cold winter away.”
Midwest Record, USA
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Where is it happening?
The Burlington Performing Arts Centre, 440 Locust St, Burlington, ON L7S 1T7, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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