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Great News! Chris is nominated for a 2009 Juno Award
for Best Children’s CD with Fiddlefire!
LISTEN TO FIDDLEFIRE! CD HERE!
Welcome to the official Chris McKhool website! Here you'll find information on all of Chris' children's concerts & CDs, as well as Chris' adult Sultans of String World-Jazz-Flamenco Violin site.
Feel free to call 1-800-MCKHOOL or email chris@fiddlefire.com to say hello, or for more information about booking Chris McKhool into your festival, series, or school.
I hope you have fun listening to the sound clips and checking out all the new photos!
Chris' CDs, Songbooks and Activity Guides are available ONLINE at: CDBABY, MapleMusic 
, and iTunes.
• 2009 Juno Award Nominee with FiddleFire!
• 2008 Canadian Independent Music Awards Finalist with Sultans of String
(SOS)
• 2008 Festivals and Events Ontario- Best Variety Act
• 2008 International Independent Music Awards Finalist with SOS
• 2007 Musique de la Monde Award with SOS
• 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award nominee with SOS
• 2007 Ontario Independent Music Award winner- Best Song with SOS
• 2007 Ontario Independent Music Award winner- Best Instrumental with
SOS
• 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Award Winner- Best Latin Jazz Group
with SOS
• 2007 Toronto Independent Music Award nominees - World Music Category
with SOS
• 2006 Toronto Independent Music Awards Nominees - Best Instrumental Band
with SOS
• 2006 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals - Songs of the Heart Competition
Finalist
• 2006 Parents’ Choice Award for CD ‘Celebrate! Holidays of the Global Village’
• 2005 Green Toronto Award of Excellence for Earth, Seas & Air Children’s
Concert
• 2004 National Jazz Awards nomination (with Club Django, Trad. Jazz)
• 2004 CIUT-FM Award for Outstanding Musical Accompanist (violin)
• Awarded grants from Canada Council (2007, 2008), Ontario Arts Council
(2005, 2007), Toronto Arts Council (2005), PromoFact (2000) and FACTOR (2004,
2005, 2007, 2008)
• 1996 Parents’ Choice Award for CD ‘Earth, Seas & Air’
Hailed as a "Children's musical star" (National Post) and "Canada's greatest eco-troubadour for young people" (Mississauga Living Arts Centre), Chris McKhool is one of Canada's hottest children's musicians. Chris has been touring across Canada with his children's concerts for over ten years, reaching almost 1 million children, and has appeared on Mr. Dressup, YTV's Treehouse, TVOntario's Crawlspace and the CBC.
A champion of environmental issues, Chris won a 2005 Green Toronto Award of Excellence and was a finalist for the Environment Canada Action Award for his work in schools and communities across Canada with his CD and concert "Earth, Seas & Air". He has also won a Parent's Choice Award in the U.S. for his CD of the same name, produced by Ken Whiteley (Raffi). He has been the recipient of Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, FACTOR and PromoFact Awards.
On October 30, 2005 Chris released his children's CD, "Celebrate! Holidays of the Global Village" at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Inspired by travels across Canada and around the world, "Celebrate!" is a groundbreaking collaboration with musicians from diverse cultures. It features songs about holidays from across the globe that are celebrated here in Canada, including Bodhi Day (Buddhist), Carnival (Quebec), Chanukah, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Diwali, Eid, Indigenous traditions, Kwanzaa (African-American), Ramadan and Winter Solstice.
In 1999 Chris received an Ontario Arts Council Grant to record “Turtle Island!”, his environmental musical for children, on a CD. For three years Players by Nature, an environmental theatre company based in Toronto, produced Chris' play, touring it in schools across Ontario and bringing it to Solar Stage in Toronto and the National Gallery Auditorium in Ottawa.
Chris has toured through all of Canada including Baffin Island and has appeared at the Ottawa, Vancouver, Thunder Bay and London International Children's Festivals. He has also performed in the U.S, England, Cuba, Guatemala and Tibetan schools across the Indian Himalayas.
Chris brings his love of violin to young audiences and tours his FiddleFire! concert for kids in festivals and schools across Canada. Closer to home he has performed at Toronto Harbourfront's Cushion Concert series, the Distillery Jazz Festival, and has headlined Toronto's First Night at the Skydome/Rogers Centre. The “FiddleFire!” CD was released in the Fall of 2008.
Chris also plays violin for adult audiences, and tours with his original World-Jazz-Flamenco band Sultans of String in concert halls, jazz and folk festivals, and clubs across the country. They released their ‘Luna’ CD on June 8, 2007 at a sold out show at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Luna hit# 1 across Canada on Top Ten national radio charts in the "International" & " World/Folk" categories. Sultans won the 2007 Musique de la Monde Award, two 2007 Ontario Independent Music Awards (Best Instrumental and Best Song), and a 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Award for Best Latin Jazz Group. They have showcased at Ontario Contact, Pacific Contact, Saskatchewan Showcase, CAPACOA and Arts Northwest in Washington State
Chris continues to perform both with his children's concerts as well as with Sultans of String.
• Thanks to Ontario Arts Council for their support in creating new works
and recording Earth, Seas & Air, and ‘Turtle Island!”.
• Thanks to Toronto Arts Council for their support in creating new works.
• Thanks to FACTOR for their support promoting ‘Celebrate!’
• Thanks to FACTOR for their support recording ‘FiddleFire!’
We acknowledge the financial support of Canada's private radio broadcasters as well as the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund for this project.
