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Good Friday Agreement Services and 10 Year Anniversary Concert

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It was such a privilege to be involved this month in celebrations of the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. You can view two services we were involved with, both of which were extremely moving to be a part of. 

And we’re happy to announce that bookings are open for our 10 Year Anniversary Concert and launch of our new non profit, Celtic Pilgrims CIC. Find out more about the event and book your ticket here. For those who can’t attend in person, there’s an option to donate to the non profit and receive a link to the streamed concert so you can join us from wherever you are.

2nd June 10 Year Anniversary Concert, Friday 7:30pm Black Box, Belfast

Celtic Psalms at the Four Corners Festival 2023

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It was a joy and a privilege to be involved in the Four Corners Festival in Belfast last week. The purpose of the festival dovetailed well with Celtic Psalms’ hope of bringing people together across community divides.

We sang at the opening event, “Dreaming God’s Dream” with Julieann Morran, about the community-level discernment going on in the Catholic Church at the moment, and the hope of walking together as ecumenical siblings. You can view the event here: https://www.facebook.com/4cornersfestival/videos/697369735306827

We also sang at the BBC Sunday Service, which featured voices from across the city and offered a beautiful and challenging vision of the future of Northern Ireland. You can listen to the service here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001hw0s?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile&fbclid=IwAR23TW-VYDRcq2SGL2OIZ3DZ6bFanfTJYWPdzzu6JCjdv55VQ6kRQv1hBVs

Kiran led Nightprayer alongside Jim Deeds every night of the festival, featuring a few Celtic Psalms songs along the way. You can catch up on those 20 minute sessions here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQK4bRPywj2HGZW_PI1X9w

As we hold onto the insights and inspiration from the festival, may we keep dreaming God’s dream together.

Interview with Kiran, New Album Available on Digital Platforms

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View interview –> HERE <–

A bit of behind-the-scenes from Redbox Studios where we’ve recorded all the Celtic Psalms albums since 2013. Today, our NEW ALBUM Celtic Psalms: May We Rise is available on DIGITAL PLATFORMS (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, iTunes etc etc). Oonagh Derby of Redbox was such a warm interviewer, and it was a special opportunity to tell the story behind one song, Love and Mercy, which has been a favorite from the new album that we’ve already sung in many concerts and services. Lovely film work and editing by Cormac O’Kane et al – with thanks to Redbox for the opportunity to talk about the background to this music, which was initially recorded during the Covid summer of 2020. Hope you enjoy the new album.

Here are some easy links to our new album Celtic Psalms: May We Rise (2022):

https://open.spotify.com/album/3mpciwqFmC18qaBfCNmPNP

https://music.apple.com/…/celtic-psalms-may…/1660897244

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0BQR1GMXF

You can also always download the mp3s directly from our website, which is the best way to support our music… just click on the image above.

Nonprofit

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Celebrating our ten years of working together to build bridges through Celtic Psalms music, we have formed a nonprofit organisation called Celtic Pilgrims.

Our work will benefit a mixed community of people from a variety of spiritual and religious backgrounds (Protestant, Catholic, other or none) with common interest in Celtic (traditional Irish/Scottish) music, culture, heritage and spiritual practices, building bridges across community divides.

In addition, we hope to bring this uplifting music to a wide variety of communities in the coming years through cross community concerts, workshops, retreats and pilgrimages.

Find out more about Celtic Pilgrims Nonprofit


Photos

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Musicians
Recording studio rehearsal

Concerts

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Summer Tour 2023, Northeast US/Canada

Upcoming Concerts

NORTHEAST TOUR 13-23 July 2023 – Hymn Society of United States and Canada, Montréal, Canada, and stops in the Northeast US

CALVIN WORSHIP SYMPOSIUM – 9-11 February, 2024

Book a Concert

Celtic Psalms performs concerts on the island of Ireland, offers workshops, and participates in conferences – in North America and farther afield. Their music has been featured in Irish and British TV and radio many times since they began doing music in 2013.

Contact info@celticpsalms.com if you would like to book a concert.

Book a Workshop

Celtic Psalms offer workshops on their music to choirs or groups who wish to learn these arrangements and also to incorporate the traditional sound into their worship settings.

Contact info@celticpsalms.com if you would like to book a workshop.

Past performances include:

2 June 2023 – 10th Anniversary Concert, Black Box, Belfast, N. Ireland

January 2023 – Four Corners Festival, Belfast, N. Ireland

Northeast US Summer Tour 2022

RTE Televised Sunday Services – 2014, 2016, 2022

BBC Televised Easter Service of Hope 2021

Ireland Spring Concerts 2019 (Riverside Theatre, Armagh Marketplace Theatre)

Midwest US Tour 2018

Northeast US Tour 2015

CDs

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Celtic Psalms album cover
Celtic Psalms Vol. 1 (CD)

Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 (CD)

Celtic Psalms Vol. 3 (CD)

Celtic Psalms Vol. 4 (CD) Forthcoming, 2023

GIA Scores

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We are delighted that GIA Music Publications has published beautiful full scores of all four of our Celtic Psalms albums. You can purchase hard copy books or download the scores instantly from anywhere in the world. Assembly editions (melody only) are available for congregational use. Instrumental parts for C instruments and cello are available separately. Guitar editions are available for Vols. 3 and 4.

It is a privilege to have this music published by the greatest Sacred Music publisher in the world. A particular thanks to Gregg Sewell who painstakingly transcribed our music from the recordings and made them accessible for others to play and sing, either in worship or for meditation.

Since we began working on this music in 2013, and it has always been a dream for this style of music – sacred music in the traditional, rootsy Celtic style – to become more accessible to individuals and groups, and GIA’s excellent work has made this possible. We are grateful.

Click the links below to order from GIA directly.

Full Score, Assembly Edition, Instrumental Parts Vol. 1
Full Score, Assembly Edition, Instrumental Parts Vol. 2

Full Score, Assembly Edition, Instrumental Parts Vol. 3
Full Score, Assembly Edition, Instrumental Parts Vol. 4

Their Delight (Psalm 1)

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Their Delight (Psalm 1)

 

Their Delight (Psalm 1)

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Tune: BánChnoic Eirann O

Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022

 

O blessed are the ones who walk God’s way
Their delight is in the love of God
Who meditate by night, by day
Their delight is in the love of God

They are like the trees grown in flowing streams
Their leaves will not wither, their fruits are very sweet
In all that they do they will flourish and thrive
Their delight is in the love of God

O blessed are the ones who mourn and weep
Their delight is in the love of God
Who hunger for justice and thirst for peace
Their delight is in the love of God

They are like the trees grown in flowing streams
Their leaves will not wither, their fruits are very sweet
In all that they do they will flourish and thrive
Their delight is in the love of God

O blessed are the ones who speak with grace
Their delight is in the love of God
Who stand for what is true and right
Their delight is in the love of God

They are like the trees grown in flowing streams
Their leaves will not wither, their fruits are very sweet
In all that they do they will flourish and thrive
Their delight is in the love of God