BEING PRESENTED AT MacKENZIE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ON APRIL 13, 2026

Earth, Seas & Air is a concert that is part musical performance, part environmentalism and 100% fun!

This award-winning show is fully interactive, featuring songs from Chris’ appearances on Mr. Dressup, YTV and the CBC.  Chris gets kids singing, dancing and talking about taking care of the Earth.

For over a decade, Chris has taken his audience beyond the 3 R’s of ecology (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to a new level of understanding of our global connection to forests, air, water and animals. Everyone leaves with the feeling that they can really make a difference!

A Green Toronto and Parents’ Choice award winner, and Environment Canada Action Award Finalist!

About  Chris McKhool

Hailed as a “Children’s musical star” (National Post) and “Canada’s greatest eco-troubadour for young people” (Mississauga Living Arts Centre), JUNO Award nominee and CFMA winner Chris McKhool is one of Canada’s hottest musicians for young people. Chris has been touring the world with his children’s concerts for two decades, reaching over 1 million children live in concert, and has appeared on Mr. Dressup, YTV’s Treehouse, TVOntario’s Crawlspace and the CBC.

Chris brings his love of violin to young audiences and tours his FiddleFire! concert for children in festivals, concert halls 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. His 2009 JUNO Award nominated “FiddleFire!” CD won the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award for Children’s Album of the Year, a 2009 Parents’ Choice Award, a 2009 iParenting Media Award and was picked for the 2009 Canadian Children’s Book Centre ‘Best of 2009’.

A champion of environmental issues, Chris created the world’s largest bicycle bell orchestra in 2008, at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto with over 800 bell ringers!  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 Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, FACTOR and PromoFact Awards.

In 2005 Chris released his Parent’s Choice Award winning 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.

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 grew up in a house bursting with music and diversity. His paternal Makhoulgrandparents immigrated to Canada from Lebanon in the early 1900’s. His Egyptian-born mother is a piano and theory teacher. Growing up Chris was fed a steady diet of delicious musicality along with Middle Eastern cuisine and violin lessons.

From a very young age Chris was taught the Canadian values of tolerance, respect for all peoples and celebration of culture. His passion for exploring the rhythms and melodies has led him to the far corners of the world, collecting instruments and styles everywhere he went. Travels to the Canadian Arctic, Indonesia, France, England, Cuba, Peru, Guatemala, Costa Rica and the Indian Himalayas to perform and conduct music workshops have added to his depth of musical and spiritual understanding of our global community.

Chris (who has performed violin with Jesse Cook and Pavlo) also leads 3x JUNO nominated and 6x CFMA winning band Sultans of String, which includes such amazing musical friends as: guitarist Kevin Laliberté (Jesse Cook, the Chieftains), bass master Drew Birston (Chantal Kreviazuk), Nyckelharpa player Saskia Tomkins (Come From Away), and Cuban master percussionist Chendy Leon (Jesse Cook, Parachute Club). Touring as a duo to quintet, McKhool draws from this collective of master musicians to bring world music to community, festival and intermediate/high school audiences around the world including the Celtic Connections Festival in the UK, Birdland jazz Club in NYC, Mariposa Folk Festival, National Arts Centre, and performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thompson Hall.

“Absolutely magnificent! What a fantastic program to celebrate diversity in our school! It was fun and full of learning at the same time. After 31 years of teaching, this is the best program I’ve seen to authentically meet the needs of our Canadian population.”

– Elaine Bandermann, Burrows Hall Jr. P.S.

You can find the Earth, Seas & Air album on Spotify.

“McKhool’s interactive concerts empower and motivate children, caregivers and educators to be active protectors of their environment, and inspire them to be environmental ambassadors within their community.”

– Green Living Magazine

You can check Chris McKhool on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hHPHDjYuj5s