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Join my family and I as we travel around the globe discovering other cultures and musical sounds, and to my stage where the concert violin is splashed with world beat flavour & transformed into a theatrical tale. Read my personal blog sharing our travel, my music and more. Listen to my music, watch my videos, study with me and join me for the ride! Enjoy exploring! 

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By the time I was twenty, I had a strange kind of overqualification. I’d spent my childhood and teenage years training in speech and drama, dance, music, camera skills, acting, television presenting — violin threaded through all of it. On paper, I could do almost anything in front of an audience. What I couldn’t do […]

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Dear friends, I’ve been working on recovering from a car accident in late 2021 for a while now! After a lot of rehab, docs finally determined that a tear in my shoulder was in the way, and I finally underwent surgery. It’s now eight weeks since surgery and I now have six months of intensive […]

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Dear friends, ASPIRATIONS is out today! So excited to have joined Jessica La & Jeff Faragher in this project- today is the day! Available on multiple platforms, check it out here. Sophie XO

BL3ND Trio’s First Single Out Today

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Dear friends & Fans, I can’t believe that the snow has melted and beautiful spring has arrived. It’s just stunning here in Kelowna, British Columbia! It’s been a wild busy year so far! We are very busy automating Master Your Audience– details coming soon- and working on rehabilitating my shoulder. Many of you know that […]

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Hey friends! So, I get a lot of comments about travelling with the kids and how hard it must be, and I have to say honestly, my heart hurts when I’m not with them! So why not? If you have the right gear, it can be easy. Having an easy to use travel crib can […]

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Dear friends, I have exciting news: I’m playing again. Not quite ready for the stage yet, but I just recorded a new music video with a brand-new piano trio formed during the pandemic — BL3ND! We shot the video last week at the Porsche Centre of Kelowna, sponsored by Maaco Kelowna. We are also featured […]

BL3ND Piano Trio at Porsche Centre of Kelowna

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Dear friends, The moment travel restrictions to Australia lifted, we booked tickets that very day. If you follow me on Instagram, you already know — we just got back from a whirlwind two weeks visiting my family Down Under! Home is where the heart is, and my heart is with my family. It was just […]

Reunited in Down Under!

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Hey my fellow busy parents, Ever wonder how to keep up with all the activities with your little ones? Between classes, play dates, and everything else, it’s not easy to keep up with music practice, aural skills, and music theory — but here are some time-savers that have helped us a ton. Play the songs […]

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Award Winning Violinist, Composer, World traveller Sophie Armstrong is also a mother of three young children, a wife, educator, author, performer, humanitarian with a passion for living! Sophie has travelled the globe with her music career, and shares her story and her faith with her global audience, inspiring audiences to feel. 

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