“Blossom" Summer Garden Festival Pass feat. SULTANS OF STRING

Event Details

Event type: All Ages / Licensed

The Waterford Old Town Hall (OTH) is pleased to present internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning Canadian band Sultans of String, July 20, 2019 as a highlight to the WG Summer Garden Festival “Blossom." The concert will take place in the stunning Whistling Gardens Amphitheater.

VIP hour: 5:30-6:30 PM
Concert: 7:00 PM                                                                                                                                                                                         Local wine, beer & cider will be on sale, along with a crafted festival menu.                                                                                                 
Concert admission granted to all festival pass holders.

VIP tickets include exclusive VIP area access with local libation tastings, and gourmet appetizers. VIPs are granted premium concert seating. 

Festival passes are $45 GA/ $30 Students, and VIP passes are $79 each (limited availability). All tickets include an all day botanical gardens access pass beginning at 9:30 a.m to experience complimentary nature conservation education tours and exhibits.

About the Sultans of String:

3x JUNO nominated, Billboard charting Sultans of String are an “energetic and exciting band with talent
to burn!” (Maverick Magazine, UK). Thrilling audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, Flamenco, Gypsy-jazz, Middle
Eastern and Cuban rhythms, fiery violin dances with kinetic guitar, while bass and percussion lay down unstoppable grooves.
Throughout, acoustic strings meet electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound.
Sultans of String have amassed impressive accolades including 3 Canadian Folk Music Awards, a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal
(for bandleader Chris McKhool), 1st place out of 15 000 in the ISC, and the honour of performing/recording with such luminaries as The
Chieftains, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Richard Bona (Paul Simon), Alex Cuba, and Ruben Blades.
The band is led by 5-string violinist McKhool (Jesse Cook, Pavlo) who was raised in a Lebanese-Egyptian household bursting with
music and diversity. Growing up, Chris was fed a steady diet of delicious musicality alongside Middle Eastern cuisine and violin
lessons. At the core of the band’s sound is his bold and fiery fiddle, melded seamlessly with founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté’s (Jesse
Cook) rumba rhythm. Together their musical synergy created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship
between violin and guitar. Other amazing musical friends such as in-the-pocket bass master Drew Birston (Chantal Kreviazuk), jaw-
dropping Cuban percussionist Chendy Leon (Alex Cuba, Ron Sexsmith) and sitar master Anwar Khurshid (Oscar winning Life of Pi)
join in on the fun.
Sultans of String have been criss-crossing North America for the last several years at many taste-making forums such as NYC’s
legendary Birdland, Boston’s Scullers, and London’s Trafalgar Square. They have sold out Koerner Hall (Toronto’s Carnegie Hall), and
performed with Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Stratford, and Niagara Symphony Orchestras, as well with Kingsfield POPS in Maine
and Maryland’s acclaimed Annapolis Symphony. Sultans of String were also filmed live by MPBN’s Maine Arts! and performed live on
BBC TV & Radio, Irish National Radio, and the internationally syndicated shows WoodSongs, World Cafe, and on SiriusXM in
Washington.

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