Beautiful image by Simon Wilkes, with thanks.

Catholic Prayerscape Podcast.

This is for Charlie Kirk and his family. What a truly tragic loss.

Here's a video to go with the hymn.

Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine. 
 
Verse 1
When you walk through the waters I'll be with you, 
You will never sink beneath the waves. 
 
Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine. 
 
Verse 2
When the fire is burning all around you, 
You will never be consumed by the flames. 
 
Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine. 
 
Verse 3
When the fear of loneliness is looming, 
Then remember I am at your side. 
 
Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine. 
 
Verse 4
When you dwell in the exile of a stranger, 
Remember you are precious in my eyes. 
 
Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine. 
 
Verse 5
You are mine, O my child; I am your father, 
And I love you with a perfect love. 
 
Chorus
Do not be afraid, 
For I have redeemed you. 
I have called you by your name; 
You are mine.

Here's a video to go with it.

Mikayla was a bright soul, with a young daughter, a husband, and countless animals, who relied upon her. She touched my heart and the hearts of millions and I am at a loss over her tragic passing and feel so completely broken for all those affected by her death, both human and animal.

This music is for all those who have lost and are dealing with grief. May her spirit continue to shine brightly and her family feel comforted by angels. How utterly devastating it is. No words can express this loss, so I put it into music.

God bless you all. And God bless Mikayla and her dear family.

Let the tears fall.

Love Holly.

Ps I made a video for the music.

Watch a video for the piece here.

Lots of love to you Daddy. April 13th 1933 - May 7th 2011.

For a beautiful video for this music click here.

See the video for the track here.

Here's a bright 'video' to go with the music.

This piece is in the mysterious E Harmonic Minor. Let it awaken your senses. There are a couple of minutes of pure birdsong to finish.

I'm saving up for a bigger harp if you want to help me! 💗🤗🕊️

Some Portuguese songs I've been singing recently - Encostado a Minha Mãe and Chamo Estrela.

Find more of my music here.

Listen to the instrumental version with prayers from Saint Thomas Aquinas on Meditation Lights.

I have a much longer ambient piece also featuring wolves - you can find it on my Cosmic Harp Bandcamp page.

This piece is in B Minor.

Have you heard my new album The Mother and The Angel?

If you want to enjoy my harp music live, I'm playing Sunday 21st May 5pm BST on Insight Timer- here's the link.

If you want to hear the powerful words to go along with it, you can find the episode over on my podcast Meditation Lights.

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Here you can find my latest episode of Meditation Lights all about putting yourself first.
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Shine on lovely folk ✨🌞✨

Check out my latest Meditation Lights episode where I narrate some uplifting words at the beginning of the piece.

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Dear listener, I need your help...

If you've ever been moved by my music, please help me reach my goal. I am saving up for a car to transport my harp. I have difficulties walking and a car would really change my life. I want to offer my harp music to end of life patients and drive to hospices around Scotland. I want to play for people in their final days and guide them into heavenly, musical, transformational states. I hope I can give them comfort, courage, relief, relaxation, peace and love and connect them with angels and light beings for their journey on.

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This piece is full of hypnotic magic.

If you would like an ethereal harp video made just for you or a friend or family member, please have a look at what I am offering. A bespoke service of healing and nourishment with divine harp music. I'll make a unique piece, with a caring, personal message. It'll be such a joy and an honour to create.

It's a beautiful gift for you or a loved one.

Please help me buy a car to enable me to play in the community more easily and to those people in hospices at the end of their lives.

A thousand thank yous for your generosity. ❤️✨❤️✨

Love to all. Shine brightly 🌞

Mermaid art by Tatyana

Happy Friday!! 🤸🏻

Today is an auspicious day for setting positive intentions and life changing affirmations. Think of a powerful, nourishing phrase personal to you and say it over and over. Connect with the power of the full moon's energy to solidify wonderful beliefs and attitudes in your life. Release all negativity from your thoughts.

I am radiant.
My music is radiant.
My music heals the world.
I am rich and supported.

Sail away to the moon on this wonderful harp journey.

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Would love you to have a listen and support my album. You help me to keep going on this wonderful, ethereal harp journey 🙏🏾

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This piece keeps returning to the same wonderful, cyclical melody. It's in Eb Major and C Minor so touches on a more mournful tone, but within the melancholy I've created a joyful energy which I return to again and again. Like the cycles of life. Bittersweet and overflowing.

If you were thinking of buying one of my albums - today's the day as it's Bandcamp Friday! Head over to La Navigatrice and Cosmic Harp to get some healing harp goodness 💓🕊️🌷🎵

My Bandcamp page - La Navigatrice 

Today's piece is called Faith. It's full of so much magic and gratitude.

Those who have yet to discover my amazing Bandcamp pages full of wonderful music can find them here:

La Navigatrice for ethereal harp adventures.

Cosmic Harp for atmospheric, ambient listens.

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"A sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Ilúvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void."

J.R.R Tolkien

The wonder of it all consumes me when I listen to angelic sound waves such as these. May you get lost in them like I do. May they heal your pains.

🌻🌻Thank you to Emily, Odd, Alan, Cameolove, Jean, Jason, Robert, Aaron, Jeannie, Kez and Simon for buying my new album. Sending these special waves of goodness across the oceans to you. 🌻🌻

Thank you Willgard for the art 🧝‍♀️🌸🙏🏼

May you enjoy the adventure too. It's a time for you to settle back and go with the planetary flow. Who knows what you'll discover.

Go well! Shine on! Thanks again. Holly.

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Image by - Zaimful 🌞

The birds were recorded in my garden in Scotland. They're busy singing their spring songs at the moment. Some birds I don't even know the names of (yet : ), so diverse are they. Louder and more melodic each day, they get. I'm loving every minute of it. Bathing in birdsong is my favourite thing in the world.

For Papa. 11 years ago today you left this earth to fly free. 🌞❤️🌟

My encounter with a swan.

Transistor Podcast Platform.

Hello to all you beautiful folk listening far and wide! Love to you all. Keep shining on 🌟
I wanted to share all the countries where my harp music has sparkled for the sheer wonder of it all ❤️🎶🙏🏼🤸🏿‍♀️
 
Germany 
Canada 
Spain
Brazil 
Iran
New Zealand
Puerto Rico
Italy
India
Australia
Taiwan
Philippines
Israel
Pakistan
Macedonia
Indonesia
France
Thailand
Portugal
Norway
Malaysia
Ireland
China
Vietnam
Netherlands
Myanmar
Guatemala
Georgia
Colombia
Austria
United States
United Kingdom 

Hummingbird image from Pexels with thanks 🦋

It would have been my Dad's 89th birthday today. This piece is connecting with him up there, at the top of one of those glorious melodic spirals. Happy Birthday Pa!

You can find it here: https://meditation-lights.hollyhoneychurch.com/ and all podcast platforms.

Meditation Lights, my new meditation podcast is out tomorrow Monday 28th March. Look out for it and see what you think. If you fancy some peace, harp music and inspiring words please follow along. Go well! Holly xx

In F # Minor.
Ukraine 🇺🇦❤️☀️

I've been experimenting with sound frequencies. I used to play my harp in 440Hz but after some comparisons, I've started playing in 432Hz. So I've downtuned my harp strings by 8Hz from the standard 440Hz of modern day tuning. Here's a great comparison video using guitar. Which do you prefer? I love that so many sound frequencies exist, all with their own vibe.

La Navigatrice ~ https://la-navigatrice.bandcamp.com/album/craobhan

I’ll begin 2022 with an ambient piece that’s uplifting, bright and calm. Angels weave sweet melodies and hold you in a warm embrace. The sound waves emanate healing and high vibrations. Great for your morning meditation or to rest your tired eyes after a busy day. These few moments will rejuvenate you. Allow yourself to be carried away with the magic.

This track is for you if you want to experience a really resonant bass. I imagine these harmonies soaring around a majestic castle, echoing through its halls and chambers for all to hear. Although this piece was made on my 25 string harp, what you hear is a whole orchestra of strings - especially cellos and double basses. I love its resonance and regality.

I got my recorder out and caught some of their morning singsong. Isn’t it divine?

This little piece is in A Minor. Whilst practising tonight, I stumbled across this gorgeous melody, so thought I’d stay there for a while and enjoy its vibration.

The melody suits the autumnal vibes now, where everything is turning to rest and hibernation. I love this time of year. I think I was a bear in a previous life.

There are plenty of cats to meet. You’ll hear all kinds of meows and purrs. The purrs in particular became quite hypnotic for me. There are also beautiful droplets of water from inside the cavern, sampled from all over the world. That makes it super magical for me. It’s an immersive experience and well worth a spooky listen.

It’s funny because one of the cats sampled (the one with the foghorn voice) sounds exactly like the darling cat from my childhood, Amy. She was my good pal. Now she’s come back to see me yay! It’s been a surreal and nostalgic process, composing with her meowing in the background.

This is half the journey. You can find the whole thing here on Bandcamp. 

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If you’d like to hear the full hour, you can find it on Bandcamp as part of my Cosmic Harp project. It’s called Cosmic Ocean.

Edit* G Phrygian Dominant is actually the 5th mode of C harmonic minor. 

All is full of love.

A blackbird was the star of the show this morning with a chorus of dynamic seagulls intertwined. The gulls use the rooftops all spring and summer to nest and raise their young so this is something I’ve gotten used to over time. I love their chatter. Sometimes they sound like cats, other times like babies and they’ve always got something dramatic and interesting to say.

This exploration is in A Dorian. It’s dreamy and soothing.

E lá vou eu
Pra mais uma viagem
Afirmando a imagem
Do meu Cristo Jesus

Meu Deus me ajude
Para cumprir a risco
Eu estou de viagem
Com meu Jesus Cristo

Meu Rei São João
Mestre dos meus estudos
Aprender vou com tudo
A final eu existo

Odemir Raulino da Silva
Quadro Azul #19

Veio da floresta
Como um Beija-Flor
Pousou na beira-mar
E explandiu o seu amor

Mostrando para todos
O caminho do Senhor
Ajuntando os seus filhos
Na estrada do amor

Esta força é o Daime
E o Daime é luz
Ele é o mensageiro
Do caminho de Jesus

Que deu por nós a vida
E morreu por nós na cruz
Nossa Santa Estrela Guia
Ele é quem nos conduz

A esta Força eu entrego
O meu coração
Guiai bem os meus passos
Neste mundo de ilusão

Estar no caminho reto
Aprendendo a união
Sou filho desta terra
Meu Padrinho é São João

Paulo Roberto

O anjo de Deus nos protege
Com seu santo manto azul
De leste a oeste, de norte a sul
Viva a Estrela do azul
Que faz brilhar as Estrelas do Céu
Do arcanjo Rafael

Este globo gira perfeito
Com diversas amostragens de cor
É Deus em tudo, é o fruto, é a flor
Vida do meu Criador
Que faz brotar com todo vigor
Vida do Rei do amor

Pad. Alfredo

Here are the lyrics and translation. Please relax and enjoy.

Luar se fez um raio prateado
Iluminando o céu e as espumas do Mar
Lindo clarão à beira-mar
Vejo Mamãe Iemanjá

Lá vem, lá vem junto com suas sereias
Nos abençoar, Rainha Iemanjá
Dona das águas tu és Mãe
Oh! Janaina Odoiá

Iluminai minhas profundas águas
Para eu decifrar mistérios do meu mar
Nesse meu mar de emoções
Rainha vem me iluminar

Iemanjá princípio gerador
Amor fundamental tão puro e maternal
Iemanjá vem confortar
Oh! Janaina Odoiá

~~~~~~~~

The moonlight became a silver ray
Illuminating the sky and the sea foam
A gorgeous gleam on the sea shore
I see Mother Yemanjá

Here she comes, here she comes along with her mermaids
To bless us, Queen Yemanjá
Lady of the waters, you are Mother
Oh! Janaina Odoiá *a traditional greeting to Yemanjá

Illuminate the depths of my water
So that I may decipher the mysteries of my sea
In this my sea of emotions
The Queen comes to illuminate me

Yemanjá, the creative principle
Fundamental love so pure and maternal
Yemanjá comes to comfort
Oh! Janaina Odoiá

When I was little, one of my favourite films was Supergirl. She was my idol (of course). I remember her home was a sparkling, underwater kingdom. It felt safe, calm and pure. When I created this song I started to see that place again. And mermaids too. Singing, gliding, welcoming, smiling. A chorus of crystal harmony. This is a water song. Even my track colours have an ocean theme : )

Today I play in A Mixolydian. I think it sounds dreamy, bright with a tiny bit of mystery.

This song has a contemplative feel. I started experimenting with A Dorian mode which sounds slightly sorrowful and pensive to me. But there’s hope too with sections of high, bright melodies which radiate light. It’s a battle between resignation and strength, fragility and possibilities. Just like in our minds, where there can be a juxtaposition of emotions flowing through us. This song is for all of us. We’re all Rashin Coatie in some way. I like to think that by the end of the piece, which finishes in E minor, she’s made up her mind. She’s won her battles and she’s ready to taste freedom, with or without a prince.

Go Rashin Coatie!

It’s a time to appreciate what we have, enjoy each moment of colour and vibrancy, make way for a new season and let go of the old ready to be born anew. And maybe do a bit of a hibernating too. 😉 I love this piece. The melodies are magical and I adore it ebbing and flowing with angelic voices.

It’s been a revelation to remember that each scale has a major and a minor key - one of the first things I would have been taught in music lessons but had totally forgotten the juxtaposition of up until a few days ago. And now things are beginning to click in my musical brain (with the help of some great online teachers) and a new world of sound patterns is opening up. Expect more explorations. Yay!

I was hooked for ten years. Then I stopped singing them as life changed direction and danced to a different rhythm and they slept in my heart. Now they’re awakening once more and I’m excited to sing them again and play them on the harp.

These songs take some influence from Catholicism and while I’m not religious in the traditional sense of the word, I can appreciate their power and magic. Once I get wrapped up in the melody I spiral high and forget everything else. These tunes mesmerise me.

My religion is Love and these songs are full of love, healing, hummingbirds, nature, spirits of the forest, motherly vibrations and divine beings like angels and The Queen of the Sea (Mamãe Yemanjá).

It’s funny I’ve got a Celtic heritage and I’m singing songs from far away lands, lands where I’ve never been before but they changed my life back then and I love singing them so much. I’m looking forward to sharing them with you in my style (much slower and gentler than the originals). I feel called to. The world needs healing songs right now.

This one’s called Hummingbird…it’s one of my favourites. Yay!

É Beija, é Beija-Flor
Que minha Mãe me entregou
Para afastar as doenças
De quem for merecedor

Meu Mestre está comigo
Pois ele é meu amor
É no céu e na terra
Jesus Cristo Salvador

Oh meu Juramidam
Foi Ele quem me mandou
Para relembrar lembranças
Da salvação do amor

Meu Mestre está comigo
Mesmo aqui aonde estou
É a glória do meu Pai
Jesus Cristo Redentor

Eu digo tá, eu digo tá
Eu digo tá e aqui estou
Eu não me esqueço, eu só me lembro
Do meu Mestre Ensinador

Pad. Sebastião

Meu Pai quando for perdoar
Perdoa como lhe convém
Eu peço que vós nos perdoe
Como perdoou em Belém

A barca que corre no mar
Corre no meu coração
Aquele que aqui batiza
Batizou no rio de Jordão

Choro muito e lamento
Tudo que já se passou
Deixo tudo saudosamente
E vou viver no meio das flores

Vou viver no meio das flores
Junto com a Virgem Maria
Os terrores que aparecem
É essa grande rebeldia

Vamos todos meus irmãos
Vamos cantar com amor
Para Deus e a Virgem Mãe
Nos defender destes terrores

Sou filho da Virgem Mãe
Reconheço este poder
Chamo a força, eu chamo a força
Para vir nos defender

Hold Me - by Holly

For the final song, I’ve gone back to simplicity. Back to nature. This song is from the rain forest. From a collection of songs/hymns devoted to the Holy Mother - Santa Maria. It’s haunting and beautiful. I love it.

Day 30 - A song a day.

This song is inspired by a very beautiful Throes of Dawn track, The Understanding. It’s a prog metal album which is dear to my heart (and one of the few I can listen to because it doesn’t having the screaming vocal style in it). The whole album is such a journey and the guitar riffs out of this world. This is a snippet of a melody (starting at 1m30 on the track) which I made into something new. I love the space in it. As well as the bass. I love a bit of bass!

Happy Friday!!

Day 28 - A song a day (I need a rest : )

I grew up only being able to sight read on my violin (with no improvisation skills or desire at all) and I’ve ended up enjoying improvising on the harp so much. I’m super grateful for all its magic and grace. Woo!

Day 27 - A song a day.

Fav line - ‘My sweet bed of stars’.

Song by Holly.

Day 26 - A song a day.

Day 25.

Day 24/30 - Song a Day

Peace, hope, love
Peace, hope, love every day
Peace, hope, love
Peace, hope, love in every way

Giving smiles, giving hugs, giving love
From my heart and on my path

Day 23 - A song a day

Day 22 - A song a day.

Lyrics by Holly.

Day 21 - A song a day.

Day 20 - A song a day.

Song by Holly Honeychurch.

Day 19 - A song a day.

Day 17 - A song a day. Wow, that’s so many days already!

Song by Holly.

Day 16 - A song a day.

Day 15 - A song a day.

Day 14 - A song a day.

Day 13 - A song a day.

Day 12 - A song a day.

Day 11 - A song a day

It’s an original song by me written in the Peak District countryside.

Day 10 - A song a day.

Now I’m a one lass band. Making sweet music with my trusty harp. I love all the experimentation and layering. So much magic to create.

This song is special to me. A lullaby for the soul. Taking you deep into the centre of the earth. Deep into Mother Nature herself. Come and find the hummingbirds and the forest paths. They’re waiting for you.

Day 9 - A song a day.

Day 8 - A song a day.

Day 7 - A song a day.

Day 4 - A song a day.

You Are There - Holly Honeychurch

Warrior Women - Holly Honeychurch

A Boy Made of Stars - Holly Honeychurch

Flowing Wind - Holly Honeychurch 

Fly for You - Patty Gurdy - Carnival Row Soundtrack

Pippin’s Song from The Lord of The Rings

As the World Falls Down - David Bowie - Labyrinth Soundtrack.