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Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in coming months!
We recorded Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 this past week! Look for launch news this autumn.
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June 2022
In their first tour since the Covid pandemic, Celtic Psalms will be traveling through the Northeast US from July 1-17, 2022. Kiran Young Wimberly and the McGraths have been singing their arrangements of Psalms set to Celtic melodies for nearly 10 years, and during the pandemic recorded their fourth album along with renowned traditional musician and producer Dónal O’Connor in Belfast. They will be releasing their new album, Celtic Psalms: May We Rise © 2022, while on tour. Bringing together the emotional depth of the Psalms with soulful Celtic melodies, Celtic Psalms offers a healing balm to lift the spirit and remind us that joy and hope can be found even in the midst of difficult times.
Kiran Young Wimberly is a Presbyterian minister and spiritual director based in Northern Ireland (www.kiranyoungwimberly.com). The McGraths (Declan, Kelly, Ellen and Chloe) are a talented musical family from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. Celtic Psalms scores and albums are published by GIA (www.giamusic.com), and their music has been featured on Irish and British national TV and radio.
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‘Celtic Psalms’ launch concert!
Join Kiran Young Wimberly with The McGraths and friends for the launch of a beautiful album of Psalms, paraphrased and set to traditional Irish and Scottish melodies. Recorded in Belfast, ‘Celtic Psalms’ is intended not only for meditative listening but to encourage the use of traditional music in Christian worship, across community divides.
‘Celtic Psalms’ album release concert
31st May, 2013 7:30 pm
McCracken Memorial Presbyterian Church
161 Malone Road, Belfast
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Welcome to Celtic Psalms!
‘Celtic Psalms’ is a new album of psalms by Kiran Young Wimberly with The McGrath’s, featuring paraphrased and set to traditional Irish and Scottish melodies. Recorded in Belfast, ‘Celtic Psalms’ is intended not only for meditative listening but to encourage the use of traditional music in Christian worship, across community divides.
Majestic (Psalm 8)
Majestic (Psalm 8)
Tune: Far, Far Beyond Yon Mountains
Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
When I see the work of your fingers
The moon, the stars, the sun
All things on earth are in their place
Majestic is your name
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
Who are mortals that you consider
Or that you think of them
They are underneath the angels
Majestic is your name
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
Majestic is your name O God
Your name in all the earth
You have placed creation in our care
All that has life and breath
May we show respect and dignity
Majestic is your name
For I Wait (Psalm 25)
For I Wait (Psalm 25)
Tune: For Ireland I’ll Not Tell Her Name
Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022
To you I will lift up my soul
In you, O my God, do I trust
In the stillness I wait for your voice
To guide me in what I should do
And lead me to do what is right
And teach me your loving ways
Lead me onward into your truth
For I wait for you all the day long
Remember your mercy and love
For they are from ages of old
Do not think of how we have strayed
But forgive us when we have done wrong
And lead me to do what is right
And teach me your loving ways
Lead me onward into your truth
For I wait for you all the day long
For those who follow your ways
For those who do walk in your paths
Is friendship with God who will save
Who will guide us in love and in grace
And lead me to do what is right
And teach me your loving ways
Lead me onward into your truth
For I wait for you all the day long
Rock of Refuge (Psalm 31)
Rock of Refuge (Psalm 31)
Tune: Spancilhill
Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022
Be a rock of refuge for me and a fortress when I’m afraid
Incline your ear unto me and come quickly to my aid
Take me from the net that binds me and deliver me from scorn
I commit my spirit to your hands, please shelter me from harm
Rock of refuge, rock of refuge
Rock of refuge, when I am afraid
Be merciful unto me for my heart is in distress
My eyes are filled with grief and my soul is weighted down
My body’s spent with sorrow and my years with sighing, O
My strength it fails from misery, my bones they waste away
Rock of refuge, rock of refuge
Rock of refuge, when I am afraid
But I trust in you forever, for you are my God
My times are in your hand, let your face shine on me now
I’ll praise you and rejoice in you, please listen to my plea
Be a rock of refuge for me and a fortress when I’m afraid
And blessed be the Lord for God’s steadfast love for me
God heard my supplication when I cried out for help
My refuge and my fortress, I will thank God with my song
Be strong all those who wait for God, may courage fill your hearts
Rock of refuge, rock of refuge
Rock of refuge, when I am afraid