https://soundcloud.com/tim-radium88/o-worship-the-lord-by-hyldas
Hope you like it.
Nope.
My other half has just complimented me on such a critical, well thought out reply.
Your description could possibly wrong-foot a few listeners. There’s nothing celtic (or even celticky) there. Iit’s the sort of (in my opinion) non descript religious-ishy sort of stuff you’d hear church groups play. Which is fine if you’re into that sort of thing but if you expect something more, maybe, traditional, you may be hit by the feeling of something tepid being poured over you. Describe it for what it is, christian worship music, and you’ll have people prepared for what they’re going to hear.
Point taken. I think it depends on the audience. This might sound like “christian worship music” to you, but that label would be equally misleading to people more used to Hillsong, Matt Redman and so on. Also, this is only one track, so perhaps isn’t the most Celtic of our songs. Anyway - I’m glad to have brightened everyone’s Sunday morning!
I think it depends on the audience. This might sound like “christian worship music” to you
Yes, it does depend on the audience, hence the labeling advice. I don’t even know what to imagine when I hear the term ‘worship music’ but this sounded identical to anything you might hear when you turn on the tellie on Sunday morning and happen to fall into the sunday morning mass. Which is fine. But forewarned is forearmed and that may make a difference in the reactions you’ll get.
Good luck.
What is “celtic” actually supposed to mean, and what is a “celtic” type of sound? It seems to make more sense to use the term in a linguistic or historical context, rather than a musical one.
Look at the varying styles of music that all have the “celtic” label slapped on them, and look at how much these styles of music vary so greatly from each other. There is some degree of overlap in some areas (between some of these styles more than others).. but they are distinct forms of music. I can’t understand what a “celtic sound” would actually sound like. Irish? Breton? Galician? Welsh? These are different types of music. If the music has a similarity to music from one of these regions of the world, why do people not make the comparison to music of that specific region, rather than the celtic label? It truly does not serve well as a descriptive term for music.
No offense at all intended. I’ve actually been wondering this for quite some time, and this was just the opportunity that came along to mention it. I really am curious about what most people percieve a celtic sound to be, as I find it confusing due to the fact that it blankets so many styles of music that vary quite widely from one another.
I couldn’t get the song to play. I even signed up hoping that would work.
In essence ‘Celtic’ is a meaningless label, especially when applied to a musical genre. Many people will have a multitude of associations when they hear the term used though. The clip, to my ears, didn’t represent anything I would understand as something usually covered by the ‘celtic’ umbrella.
But Mike partially re-labelled it, look at the merits of the clip from that point of view. Let’s not sidetrack this any further.
Bottom line… it is beautiful… thank you for posting it.
James
At the risk of further opening up the can of worms, the backstory might help a bit. The music on the CD came out of our association with the Northumbria Community http://www.northumbriacommunity.org/ which is a dispersed monastic community. Many of the liturgies used (and song lyrics) are from “Celtic” roots - “Our identity is rooted in the history and spiritual heritage of Celtic Northumbria”. The track I posted isn’t Celtic as such, although personally, I’d associate music which has whistle and fiddle as potentially Celtic. Perhaps English folk would be a better description of the track in question.
Well said. So, leaving the label to one side, what do people think of the sound?
That was how it struck me on first listen. I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Feadoggie
I was able to hear the song on Foxfire but not Internet Explorer. Thank you for sharing this song.
I don’t know what kind of Mass music folks hear Sunday Mornings on their tellies but around these parts, we mostly get Bluegrass Gospel and white bread massive choirs.
I don’t know what kind of Mass music folks hear Sunday Mornings on their tellies
Well, over here things are apparently very different.
What’s on the tellie then?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. 
nice! the instruments sounded great, the vocal was a little more “trained” than i like for folk music.
There’s quite a few religious people here on these pages and I’m sure that they would have liked it,but for someone not religious,it was syrupy and horrible … sorry hoopyMike,just my two bobs worth..
Thanks for that. We’ve been horrible for years, but it’s taken ages to develop a truely syrupy sound. Occasionally we’ve been syrupy without retaining our horribleness, but to hear that we’ve managed to hit both goals in a single track is very encouraging.
Well my two bob was well spent then 
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It was indeed. I’m curious as to whether you found the music syrupy or the words. Anyway, hope you’re enjoying the cricket