Jaana Band – “Morghe Lahooti”

Jaana band led by Mahsa Golmakani started its activities in Toronto last spring. The main core of this band is composed of a group of talented female musicians based in Toronto, who made…

Second season of the Sounds of Canada series.

We’d like to congratulate every one of us on the launch of the second season of the Sounds of Canada series. In the second season, we will adhere to the same principles that…

Yiddish Sounds of Canada | Season 2

Vietnamese Sounds of Canada

Quiz. Musical instruments

Magdalena Tomsinska

If you are one who revels in medieval music, then you definitely must attend Magdalena Tomsinska's performances. Magdalena is a talented musician, as well as a music teacher and researcher-musicologist. She is originally…

Poll. I’m playing…

Mozart Quintet K.581, 1st. Mvt. J.Milkis & Borodin Quartet

Alexander Sevastian. IN MEMORIAM.

On Friday, February 19, we all, and the music world in particular, suffered a terrible loss with the sudden death of Alexander Sevastian, a virtuoso accordionist, who was sometimes called Paganini of accordion.…

Music Genres Quiz

Julian Milkis & Siberian Virtuosi / J.S. Bach Air

Okavango African Orchestra

What is Okavango African Orchestra? Is it Eritrean? Zimbabwean? Senegalese? Burundian? Ghanaian? Or is it Madagascan? Actually, the orchestra is Eritrean, Zimbabwean, Senegalese, Burundian, Ghanaian, AND Madagascan. It is what its name says:…

Rolling Stronz

If you want to fool around and get paid for it, you must have a big talent and an even bigger sense of humour. That’s exactly what the Rolling Stronz possess in addition…

Portuguese Sounds of Canada

A famous singer, Tony Gouveia is considered something of an ambassador for fado, a Portuguese music and dance genre. Well known in the North American Portuguese community for more than  20 years of…

Founders of the Canadian Arabic Orchestra

Fueled by their passion towards Arabic and Western classical music, Lamees Audeh and Wafa Al Zaghal have been building bridges between these two rich worlds; inviting and engaging Canadian Arab and non-Arab musicians…

Julian Milkis & Siberian Virtuosi

A. Razaf - E. Blake "Memories of  You"

Indian Sounds of Canada

Hungarian Sounds of Canada

Cuban Sounds of Canada

Filipino Sounds of Canada

Ukrainian Sounds of Canada

Arabic Sounds of Canada

Italian Sounds of Canada

We were awarded a prize for our project “Sounds of Canada.”

November 24th, the Canadian Ethnic Media Association held the 39th Annual Awards Gala. Ethnic Channels Group was awarded the first prize for its project "Sounds of Canada" series. Congratulations!

First musical event in Toronto

The first extant reference to a musical event in Toronto is an itemized account including '7 Dollars Paid musick by Order' for a ball and supper, 4 Jun 1798, to celebrate the king's…

Cuban Sounds of Canada

Hungarian Sounds of Canada

Language Quiz

Celtic Sounds of Canada

Howard Leslie Shore

DID YOU KNOW that a famous composer Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord…

CANADA’S COLDEST DAY

The small Yukon hamlet of Snag recorded a temperature -62.8° C on February 3, 1947. It was so damn cold, in fact, the joke was that the meteorologists couldn’t toast the new record…

First Scots in Canada

The first documented source of Scots in what would become Canada comes from the Saga of Eric the Red and the Viking expedition of 1010 AD to Vinland (literally, the land of meadows),…

Which music genre is your favourite?

Indian Sounds of Canada

New group was created on Facebook

New group "Sounds of Canada" was created on Facebook. Welcome https://www.facebook.com/groups/512657305740616/  

Indian Sounds of Canada. Backstage.

Dance With SL is a South Asian dance and choreography collective, founded by Shereen Ladha, that trains and showcases the top Bollywood performers in Canada. Dance With SL is the creative force behind several viral YouTube videos and…

The Canadian Arabic Orchestra

The idea of combining the Western and Eastern musical worlds started out in 2009 by Lamees Audeh and Wafa Al Zaghal who performed as a duo of the piano and the qanun -…

Roots

Since the beginning of time, people have been striving to establish a sense of belonging to their surroundings. Just as the roots of a tree find their way and cling to the earth,…

Night Prayers

At the concert in Toronto, duet of classical musicians, clarinetist Julian Milkis and accordionist Alexander Sevastian, performed "Night Prayers" by Gia Kancheli, an outstanding composer from Georgia. His music is very unusual: it…

Vodogray

One of the first films that we shot was a piece about the singer Miroslava Solovyanenko, who moved to Canada from Ukraine. According to the script, her song "Vodogray" (which in Ukrainian means…

Filipino Sounds of Canada

Ukrainian Sounds of Canada

Arabic Sounds of Canada

Russian Sounds of Canada

The Canadian Arabic Orchestra and Mississauga Arts Council hold a press conference at Mississauga City Hall

The Canadian Arabic Orchestra and Mississauga Arts Council hold a press conference at Mississauga City Hall to announce the launch of the First Festival of Arabic Music and Arts. Furthermore, The Canadian Arabic…

Irish-Scottish band

Today we filmed amazing, fantastic, great Irish-Scottish band American Rogues.

The American Rogues featured in Irish Sounds of Canada.

Unique instrument “Qanun”

The last piece of a puzzle called "Arabic Sounds of Canada" was filming at ECG Studio. Here you can see a unique instrument "Qanun" meaning "rule, law. Qanun is one of the main…

Sounds of Canada

Canada is one of the most multi-ethnic countries in the world. According to Statistics Canada Report on Immigration and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Canada more than 200 ethnic origins were reported in the 2011…

Wonderful Indian dancer in the streets of Toronto

Shooting wonderful Indian dancer in the streets of Toronto for a new episode of Sounds of Canada.

Changui Havana

Last week we filmed a rehearsal of amazing Cuban band "Changui Havana". This Saturday guys will perform at our studio. Looking forward to it...

ECG Productions is launching an amazing project

ECG Productions is launching an amazing project committed to promote tales from ethnic communities across Canada. If you are a musician or a band and you can represent one of ethnic communities of…