Celtic Music: Kim Robertson

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One of America's Finest Celtic Harp Players

Kim Robertson is a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She has combined a passionate sense of tradition with a love of innovation that brings a modern sound to the ancient Celtic harp. Her concerts and recordings include traditional tunes as well as her own compositions.

She began studying classical piano at age eight and continued through college as a piano major. She also began learning the classical pedal harp as a high school senior, although she was not interested in a symphonic harp career. In the 1970s she was introduced to the Celtic harp and grew to love the instrument. She has become renowned as a performer on stage and in the studio and as an instructor. She has been involved in twenty recordings, and has produced eleven instruction books and three instruction videos.


Photo by Ken Lax

Highland Heart

Gourd Music - 2006

Track listing:

1. I Vow to Thee, My Country
2. Glenburnie Rant
3. Are You Sleeping, Maggie?
4. If I Were A Blackbird
5. Sleep Soond I'da Moarnin'
6. Bonny at Morn
7. Jamie, Come Try Me
8. The Selkie
9. Loch Lomond
10. Mist Covered Mountains of Home
11. Dark Woman of the Mountains
12. Ghosts of Gight
13. Ae Fond Kiss
14. Loch Tay

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Searching for Lambs

KIM ROBERTSON: Searching for LambsGourd Music - 2003

Track listing:

1. The Youngest Daughter
2. All Things Bright And Beautiful
3. The Grenadier And The Lady
4. Be Thou My Vision
5. I'm A Doun For Lack O' Johnnie
6. The Boys Of Ballisodare
7. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
8. Maya's Return
9. Searching For Lambs
10. Since You've Asked
11. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
12. Victor's Return
13. Beauty In Tears
14. Cape Clear

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Dance to Your Shadow

Narada - 2001

Track listing:

1. Morning Dew
2. No' Plaid/Strayaway Child
3. I Once Loved A Lass
4. Ca' The Yowes/Plough The Stars
5. Sally Gardens/Rider's Song/Apples In Winter
6. Mantle So Green
7. O'Keefe's Slide
8. Piper's Despair
9. Dance To Your Shadow
10. My Johnny Was A Shoemaker/Cobbler's Jig
11. Farewell To Stromness
12. Broken Prayer
13. Inisheer

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The Spiral Gate

Narada - 1999

Track listing:

1. Comb Your Hair And Curl It
2. Ferry Me Across The Water
3. Molly On The Shore
4. Gaudete!
5. The Spiral Gate
6. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
7. The Clergy's Lamentation/Separation Of Soul And Body
8. Roses In The Hollow
9. Faery's Lament/Reel á Bouche
10. Flamorgan's Aire
11. Robertson's Rant
12. The Labyrinth Waltz13. Shamrock Shore

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Wood, Fire & Gold

Dargason Records - 1996

Track listing:

1. Eleanor
2. Anamchara
3. Bells of Paris
4. Som-Som Béni
5. Dance of the Lambs
6. Wondrous Love
7. L'amour Trouvé
8. Crossing The Bridge
9. Alayi
10. Anamchara
11. Loch Tay Boat Song

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Treasures of the Celtic Harp

Dargason Records - 1995

Track listing:

1. Glenlivet
2. I Love My Love In The Morning
3. Moving Cloud
4. The Water Is Wide
5. New Leaves
6. Boundless
7. Luminous Sea
8. Miss Brown's Fancy
9. Shule Aroon
10. Flowers Of The Forest
11. Sleep Soon Ida Mornin'
12. Tree Of Liberty
13. Etude
14. Merrily Kiss The Quaker
15. Fairly Shut Of Her
16. Londonderry Air
17. Waulking O' The Fauld

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Love Song to a Planet

with Bettine Clemen, flute

KIM ROBERTSON: Love Song to a PlanetInvincible Recordings - 1994
Re-released 2003


Track listing:

1. New World
2. Vivo
3. L'Espoir
4. Mist Covered Mountains
5. Voices From Tibet
6. Love Song for the Water Planet
7. Day of the Dolphin
8. Dancing Gaia
9. Shanti
10. The Dark Island
11. Amazing Grace

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Tender Shepherd

KIM ROBERTSON: Tender ShepherdGourd Music - 1992

Track listing:

1. Cradle Song
2. Bernard The Butterfly
3. Let It Be A Dance
4. Bally Loo Lammy
5. The Price Of My Pig
6. Sheep May Safely Graze
7. Foggy Dew
8. All The Pretty Little Horses
9. Quiet Land Of Erin
10. All Through The Night
11. Highland Lullaby
12. Gartan Mother's Lullaby
13. Irish Lamentation
14. Tender Shepherd

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Gratitude

with Virginia Kron, Cello

KIM ROBERTSON & VIRGINIA KRON: GratitudeInvincible Recordings - 1990
Re-released 2003


"Deep peace flows from the rich romantic themes and original compositions by Kim Robertson of Gratitude. Virginia Kron, playing cello, unites with Kim to create Kim's finest instrumental work. "There is an air of magical elegance about Gratitude that recalls bygone eras, be they courtly, or wrapped in a world of fantasy...." — Nikki C. Hasden, quoted by CD Baby

Track listing:

1. Women of Ireland
2. Saltarello
3. She Moves Through the Fair
4. Blarney Pilgrim
5. Amethyst
6. Berceuse [Excerpt]
7. Martin Eynnd's Air - Kim Robertson
8. Another Star
9. Gratitude
10. Berceuse (Reprise)
11. Maya
12. Oopla
13. G. Ditty
14. Temple of Wisdom
15. Threshold

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Angels in Disguise

KIM ROBERTSON: Angels In DisguiseInvincible Recordings - 1990

Scottish fiddler Alistair Fraser, Ron Neiman on hammered dulcimer, guitarist Liv Singh Khalsa, and percussionist Kit Bailey provide additional instrumentation.

Track listing:

1. Doucement
2. Nippon Bridge
3. Rocky Road
4. Contemplate
5. All or None
6. Hangman's Noose
7. Wild Mountain Thyme
8. Morning Star
9. Little Lad, Oh
10. Apples in the Winter
11. Mon Ami
12. Hello My Friend
13. Slide/Dinny Delaney
14. I Was Roaming in the Gloaming
15. Angels in Disguise

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Moonrise

KIM ROBERTSON: MoonriseInvincible Recordings - 1987
Re-released 2003


Track listing:

1. Gratitude
2. Carolan's Draft
3. Moon over the Rising Castle
4. Moon
5. La Rotta
6. Rain
7. Sam Coiman
8. Light in the Sea
9. Sonatina
10. Bailey's Fancy
11. Paduana Alla Venetiana
12. Allegro
13. Eclipse/Ecuador
14. Moonrise

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Water Spirit

Invincible Recordings - 1987

Track listing:

1. Pavane
2. Lauda to Sta. Maddalena
3. Chanter
4. Roving Galway Boy
5. Minuet
6. Separation of Soul from the Body
7. Maids of Mourne Shore
8. Water Spirit
9. Kalenda Maya
10. Lagan Love
11. Parting Glass
12. Alfonso XII el Sabio
13. Carrickfergus
14. Canon
15. Carrickfergus

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Wind Shadows II

KIM ROBERTSON: Wind Shadows IIInvincible Recordings - 1987
Re-released 2003


Track listing:

1. Arise and Get Dressed
2. Kathleen Ashore
3. Mon Ami
4. Minstrel Boy
5. Banish Misfortune
6. Foggy Dew
7. Butterfly Jig
8. O'Connell's Lamentation
9. Star of the County Down
10. Castle of Dramore
11. Tuza
12. My Thousand Treasures
13. Last Rose of Summer
14. Lark On the Strand
15. Hornpipe

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Wind Shadows

Kim Robertson's first recording

KIM ROBERTSON: Wind ShadowsInvincible Recordings — 1983
Re-released 2003


Track listing:

1. Lauda
2. Morgan Mehgan
3. March of King Laois
4. Skye Boat Song
5. Spagnollet
6. Arran Boat Song
7. Eleanor Plunket
8. Lament
9. King of the Fairies
10. Give Me Your Hand
11. George Brabazon
12. Bittersweet
13, Spright
14. Bittersweet II
15. Bittersweet II
16. Casey's Hornpipe

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Christmas Lullaby

Gourd Music - 2004

Track listing:

1. Holly and the Ivy
2. Away in a Manger/Flow Gently Sweet Afton
3. Snow Lay on the Ground
4. Polish Lullaby (Lulajze Jezuniu)/Cold Is the Morning
5. Prayer for St. Bridget (Gabhaim Molta Bride)/Gabriel's Message
6. Christ Child's Lullaby
7. St. Basil's Hymn (The Kalanta of the New Year)
8. In the Bleak Midwinter
9. Verbum Supernum Prodiens
10. First Noël
11. Of the Father's Love Begotten
12. Scottish Lullaby
13. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
14. Babe of Bethlehem
15. Silent Night

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Celtic Christmas II

with Virginia Kron, Cello

KIM ROBERTSON: Celtic Christmas 2Invincible Recordings - 1994

" Kim Robertson's snowpure Celtic harp joined on many songs by Kron's evocative cello. Celtic Christmas II focuses on a few well known carols but uncovers many new ones, including the Italian 'El Tutu,' the Spanish ' A La Nanita Nana', the French 'Pastourelle', and German 'Christ ist erstanden', the playing is a meld of Celtic folk and classical, and the sound is beautiful." — The Washington Post

Track listing:

1. El Tutu
2. The darkness is Falling
3. A la Nanita Nana
4. As Joseph Was A-Walking
5. Paduana
6. Jesos Ahatonhia
7. We Three Kings
8. Silent Night
9. Noel Nouvelet
10. Verbum Supernum
11. Merrily on High
12. Come All Ye Shepherds
13. Pastourelle
14. Christ ist erstanden

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Celtic Christmas

KIM ROBERTSON: Celtic ChristmasInvincible Recordings - 1987

"Kim Robertson's crystalline harp sounds like a mountain brook coursing through a cathedral; the most peaceful and perhaps the most beautiful of this year's albums in loveley elegiac arrangements." — Bob Marello, Facts on Wax.

"Celtic Christmas by Kim Robertson will surely add a touch of grace to your Christmas celebration." — Paul Simon, Body Mind and Spirit.

Track listing:

1. I Wonder as I Wander
2. The First Nowell
3. Quad Li
4. Devinum Mysterium
5. Venite Adormus
6. Jesu Joy Oh Man's Desiring
7. Veni Emmanuel
8. Entre le Boeuf
9. Greensleeves
10. Sheep May Safely Graze
11. Saltarello
12. Rosa Mystica
13. God Rest Ye Merry Gettlemen
14. Good King Wencelas
15. Christ's Lullaby
16. Coventry Carol

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