Nonprofit

December 19, 2022 Comments Off

Celtic Pilgrims Nonprofit

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.

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Non Profit

Celtic Pilgrims Nonprofit

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

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.

Photos

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Concerts

December 17, 2022 Comments Off

St. Patrick's Festival, Belfast

Celtic Psalms | Ursula Burns

Join us for this special concert featuring Celtic Psalms, a music group composed of Rev. Kiran Young Wimberly and the renowned McGrath Family from County Tyrone, live at Redeemer Central Church. Immerse yourself in a night of ancient psalms, reimagined with stunningly beautiful traditional Irish & Scottish melodies, and rich harmonies, celebrating a deeper spiritual and cultural heritage.

St. Patrick's Week US Tour

Northeast to Midwest US,
March 16th-23rd

Celtic Psalms will be traveling to the US during St. Patrick’s Week, March 16th-23rd. Starting in the Northeast, they will be making their way to the Midwest, with stops in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Iowa. It will be a great opportunity to celebrate Celtic music during the week when we remember the earliest Irish saint.

Celtic Psalms events bring people together across community divides, building bridges through music and finding common group through our shared humanity. On this tour, they will be raising funds for our nonprofit Celtic Pilgrims with the hopes of hosting music events to bring people together in the coming years.

Tour Schedule

16 March 10am Sun Old Greenwich Presbyterian, Stewartsville, NJ
16 March 4pm Sun Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ
17 March 7:30pm Mon Westminster Presbyterian, West Chester, PA
18 March Eve Tues 6th Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA
19 March Eve Wed Wabash Presbyterian Church, Wabash, IN
21 March 8pm Fri Basilica, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
22 March 7pm Sat Muscatine Presbyterian Church, Muscatine, IA
23 March 9:30am Sun Muscatine Presbyterian Church, Muscatine, IA

Upcoming Concerts

Calvin Worship Symposium Feb 2026

Event Details

This conference offers opportunities to learn from guest speakers, musicians, and artists and participate in a psalm festival worship service and other times of prayer and reflection.

This February event replaces the Calvin Symposium on Worship which will take an interlude in 2026. By pausing the Symposium (our largest event!) in 2026, we can make room for this creative event uniquely timed with our schools’ anniversary and explore ways the Biblical psalms can shape us in public worship and in all areas of the Christian life.

This event is part of the year of Dwelling in the Psalms, sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. We will also sponsor a few events in other locations and will share details of those events as they develop.

Past performances include

Northeast to Midwest US, March 16th-23rd, 2025
St. Patrick's Music Festival (Belfast TradFest) March 14th, 2025.
Quaker Meeting House, Hillsborough 31 May 2024
Holy Week Candlelight Concerts - Derry and Belfast 25 and 26 March 2024
Cahans Church, Co. Cavan 22 March 8pm 2024
TEDx Stormont - 20 January 2024
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

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:

Quaker Meeting House, Hillsborough – 31 May 2024

Holy Week Candlelight Concerts – Derry and Belfast 25 and 26 March 2024

Cahans Church, Co. Cavan – 22 March 8pm 2024

CALVIN WORSHIP SYMPOSIUM – 9-11 February 2024

TEDx Stormont – 20 January 2024

Summer Tour July 2023 – Hymn Society of United States and Canada, Montréal, Canada, and stops in the Northeast US

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

Book a Concert

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

Quaker Meeting House, Hillsborough – 31 May 2024
Holy Week Candlelight Concerts – Derry and Belfast 25 and 26 March 2024
Cahans Church, Co. Cavan – 22 March 8pm 2024
CALVIN WORSHIP SYMPOSIUM – 9-11 February 2024
TEDx Stormont – 20 January 2024
Summer Tour July 2023 – Hymn Society of United States and Canada, Montréal, Canada, and stops in the Northeast US
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

Podcast

December 17, 2022 Comments Off

Psalms for the Spirit Podcast

Kiran Young Wimberly hosts a podcast on the connections between spirituality and resilience through the lens of the Biblical psalms. Celtic Psalms music weaves through conversations with her guests, and each episodes brings fascinating, uplifting and challenging insights into the psalms and how they can help us through difficult times.

Find out more

Podcast

Psalms for the Spirit Podcast

CDs

December 17, 2022 Comments Off

Celtic Psalms Vol. 1 (CD) Purchase Here

Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 (CD) Purchase Here

Celtic Psalms Vol. 3 (CD) Purchase Here

Celtic Psalms Vol. 4 (CD) Purchase Here

GIA Scores

December 17, 2022 Comments Off

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)

December 15, 2022 Comments Off

This first Psalm, set to the Irish traditional tune BánChnoic Éirann Ó, speaks of being like trees planted in streams of water, where we can flourish and thrive.

LYRICS

Their Delight (Psalm 1)

Tune: BánChnoic Éirann Ó (Irish trad.)

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