If you would like to book me to sing at a funeral, please click the “contact Claire” button above for a same-day reply, or ask your funeral director to contact me.
I perform a selection of heart-felt songs and instrumentals, accompanying myself with the choice of piano or harp, in Limerick City, County, and surrounding areas.
I appreciate that notice is typically short when organizing a funeral mass, so I do what I can to offer support for music planning during this time – whether that means selecting some beautiful hymns for you, or working with your own requests at short notice.
I can download and play a recording of any song through my iPod and sound system, should there be a particular version of a song that is significant to the family or loved one.
Below is a selection of suggested hymns, secular songs, and instrumentals, to help to make it as easy as possible to choose appropriate music. The outline below is for a Catholic funeral mass music, but I am also available for humanist and other types of funerals and memorials.
Entrance Music / Opening Hymn
Amazing Grace
Christ Be Beside Me
Be Thou My Vision
Bi Iosa Im Croise
Here I Am, Lord
Morning Has Broken
Queen of the May
The Lord’s My Shepherd (traditional version by Irvine)
The Lord’s My Shepherd (Townend)
There Is A Place (Liam Lawton)
You Are Mine
Responsorial Psalm
Be Thou My Vision
Here I Am, Lord
Hiding Place
Mo Ghrá Thú
On Eagle’s Wings
The Clouds Veil
Gospel Acclamation (except during Lent)
‘Alleluia’ to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah melody
Celtic Alleluia
Seinn Alleluia
‘Alleluia’ from Mo ghrá-sa, mo Dhia
Offertory
A Mhuire Mhatháir
Ag Críost an Siol
Amazing Grace
As I Kneel Before You
Be Still For The Presence of the Lord
Jesus, Remember Me
Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
Sign of Peace
Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
May The Peace Of The Lord Be With You
May The Road Rise To Meet You (Lori True)
An Irish air (various instrumentals are available)
Communion (Usually 2-3 songs)
Amazing Grace
Angel (In the Arms of an Angel)
As I Kneel Before You
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Be Not Afraid
Be Still My Soul
Bright Blue Rose
Here I Am, Lord
I Watch The Sunrise
Nella Fantasia
Pie Jesu (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
The Clouds Veil
The Deer’s Cry (I Arise Today)
The Prayer
The Rose
The Voyage
The Water Is Wide
There Is A Place (Liam Lawton)
Voice Of An Angel
You Are Mine
You Raise Me Up
Recessionals & other songs (sang or instrumental)
Abide With Me
Amazing Grace
Angel (In the Arms of an Angel)
Bring Him Home – instrumental
Come Away With Me (Nora Jones)
Everglow (Coldplay) – instrumental
Fields of Gold
Gabriel’s Oboe
Going Home
Golden Slumbers
Here Comes The Sun
How Great Thou Art
Imagine
In My Life
Jealous Of The Angels
Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
May It Be (Enya)
May The Road Rise To Meet You (Lori True)
Nearer My God To Thee
Nella Fantasia
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Queen of the May
Remember Me (Christy Hennessy)
Songbird
Steal Away
The Rose
The Voyage
Time To Say Goodbye
Wind Beneath My Wings
You Raise Me Up
Instrumentals (if required)
I Giorni (by Ludovico Einaudi)
The Rivers Flows In You
An Irish air (various beautiful slow airs available)
An instrumental version of a hymn
Other Hymns/Songs (the following songs are only available with piano)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Ev’ry Day of My Life (Bobby Vinton)
Panis Angelicus
Over The Rainbow (Eva Cassidy version)
Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)