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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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Hey you guys! I had a blast playing with Pavlo on the Alberta leg of his recent tour! Check him out if you haven’t already! www.pavlo.com Pavlo produced my album The Journey, and also appeared in the music video for the title track. What do you guys think – should we do another album together?! […]

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You guys!! I just had the three most magical, and challenging days here in beautiful Scotland. I should always start to expect the unexpected, because I could never have guessed how this was going to go. I had in my mind, that we were going to film an epic music video…. And I think we […]

Glasgow to Isle of Skye, Scotland

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Hey everyone! So last year, I changed my stage name, which many of you know. Some of you guys still know me as Sophie Serafino and that’s cool, I used that name for a long time. In changing my name back to my maiden name – my birth name of Armstrong (Scottish), I became more […]

My inspiration for Unvanquished

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Hey you guys! Some of you have been asking me a lot… and ALL the time at my shows, about the instruments I play, and which is my favorite. So this blog post is entirely about my #1 violin! I have played this instrument since 2005. It was made in 1820 in London, by Italian […]

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Hey you guys! We had a blast last night performing at the Langley Summer Series! I absolutely loved coming back here again. Great audience, and we LOVE all the little cafes and cute spots downtown. We will have to come back! I just gave away a free track of one song I performed in this […]

Langley Summer Series!

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Hey you guys! So… this was an interesting shoot you guys! I was so excited to shoot here on the pristine salt flats with the beautiful backdrop of the mountains. The Bonneville Salt flats are one of the largest salt flats in the world- it is the largest of many salt flats located west of […]

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA

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Hey guys! I’m excited to be coming to Langley BC again this week! I’ll be performing with guitarist Mikes Sands, a 90 minute show in the Willoughby Community Park Amphitheatre!  Check out the details: https://www.tol.ca/events/2019-summer-festival-series Sophie xo

Sophie Live at the The 2019 Summer Festival Series – Langley BC

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Happy Friday everyone! As we head into the weekend, I have a little something to share with you. This video is something different! The Water Lantern Festival is a beautiful community event, where I was lucky to be able to perform and also shoot this music video. I chose to shoot my track Kissed by […]

Water Lantern Festival, Calgary Alberta Canada

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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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