Castleknock Music Festival

We would like to welcome Julian Milkis back to Canada after his successful trip to Ireland. As you know, Julian was one of the musicians performing at the Opening Concert at Castleknock Music…

Shereen Ladha

Shereen Ladha is a great example of a hardworking person who managed to use her MBA in a non-traditional way. Balancing her work in an advertising and marketing agency and producing and dancing…

Ukrainian Sounds of Canada – Vyshyvanka Day

On Saturday, May 26th, come join Ukrainian community in a celebration of Vyshyvanka Day. The gathering will take place near Jane Subway Station in Toronto, at Ukrainian Social Services at 11:00 AM. The…

Gyanta Hungarian Folk Band

Only one month left until Csipke Hungarian Folk Dance and Music Camp in Brooklyn, MI, where the band Gyanta Hungarian Folk Band will perform for its audience! The event will run from June…

Pinoy Fiesta & Trade Show Toronto 2018

Filipino community invites everyone to the biggest indoor Filipino gathering in North America, Pinoy Fiesta & Trade Show Toronto 2018, which will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Hall A) on…

Taste of Russia festival

Toronto's 3rd annual Taste of Russia is on Sunday, June 10th, from 12:00 PM to 21:00 PM. The Taste of Russia festival celebrates the multicultural diversity of Toronto. Everyone will get a chance…

Rhode Island Scottish Festival in Richmond

The American Rogues were invited to perform at Rhode Island Scottish Festival in Richmond, RI, USA for the third time so far. The event will take place on June 9th, 2018. The band…

Festival of Arabic Music and Arts “FAMA 2018”

Early Bird Privilege Passes for the Festival of Arabic Music and Arts “FAMA 2018” are available for sale on The Canadian Arabic Orchestra’s website. Buying a privilege pass, you become a preferred guest…

Vietnamese Sounds of Canada – Tre Viet Performing Arts Group

We are thrilled to announce that Tre Viet Performing Arts Group from Toronto, Ontario will perform at the Show and Conference “Vietnam Essence of Yesteryear 10” at the Shorecrest Performing Arts Center, Seattle,…

Cuban Sounds of Canada – Changui Havana

One of Toronto's favourite Cuban ensembles, Changui Havana, would like to invite everyone to the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, running for 10 incredible days, from June 22nd through July 1st, 2018. The TD…

Celtic Sounds of Canada – The American Rogues

We are thrilled to announce that The American Rogues was invited to perform at the Gallabrae Scottish Games in Greenville, South Carolina. This will be their first year at this large festival, where…

Hungarian Sounds of Canada – Gyanta Hungarian Folk Band

Specializing in the unique and centuries-old folk music of the Hungarian villages located in Hungary, Transylvania (a part of western Romania), and Slovakia, Gyanta Hungarian Folk Band performs at large-scale folk festivals, this…

CBC Music Festival

Saturday, May 26, Toronto, RBC Echo Beach at the Ontario Place. THE CBC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018. It will be a full day of music of different genres and traditions, for all ages and…

Pouzza Fest

May 18-20, 2018. The Pouzza Fest is a punk music festival held annually in Montreal. It always lasts for three crazy days in May, in settings both indoors and outdoors and mainly in…

Indian Sounds of Canada – Shereen Ladha

Shereen Ladha is running an Online Class series for Bollywood dancers with or without previous experience in Indian styles who want to develop their techniques. Lots of dance tutorials are posted on her…

Filipino Sounds of Canada – Partida

New original song "Araw-Araw (Balang Araw)" by Partida soon will be available throughout Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify. Also, Filbert Wong, guitar player, has informed our team that the band is currently working on…

Russian Sounds of Canada – Julian Milkis

We are pleased to announce that Julian Milkis has been invited to perform at the Opening Concert at Castleknock Music Festival in Dublin, Ireland on the 15th of May. The Opening Concert is…

Canadian Music Week 2018

It is here! 2018 Canadian Music Week kicks off Monday May 7 and will last for, well, a week, until it wraps up on Sunday May 13. It's one of the biggest (if…

Italian Sounds of Canada – The Rolling Stronz

The Rolling Stronz, also known as the Kitchen Staff Band, is happy to invite everyone to Mississauga ITALFEST, Mississauga’s first and leading Italian festival, which will take place in August on Celebration Square…

Arabic Sounds of Canada – The Canadian Arabic Orchestra

On May 13th the Canadian Arabic Orchestra will perform at the Isabel Bader Theater in Toronto, Ontario. The Orchestra will present to an audience their sensational concert “Roots”. The musicians will express their…

Ukrainian Sounds of Canada – Mira Solovianenko

Honored Artist of Ukraine Mira Solovianenko is happy to invite everyone to the Evening of the Romance on May 5th at 7:00 PM. The event will take place in “Amazing Cat”, in Toronto,…

Victims of Toronto van attack identified

On behalf of the management and staff of Ethnic Channels Group, Sounds of Canada team would like to express our heartfelt condolences to Omar Najjar, a vocalist and a director of the Canadian…

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

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"

Hungarian Sounds of Canada

Cuban Sounds of Canada

Filipino Sounds of Canada

Ukrainian 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…

Language Quiz

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?

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