The voices of angels have graced our ears and touched us to the very core.

I can't thank you enough for the wonderful gift of your music at the Christmas Mass. It was simply breathtaking and a wonderful preparation for the liturgy... I look forward to a growing relationship. Brother Douglas Brown, Prior

Your concert was full of wonder -- beautiful and moving beyond words!

Katy's Music

Welcome to the Music Pages of my website. I'm not performing as much these days, but Amy Fradon and I are doing occasional concerts and my CDs are still for sale.

Welcome Brigid
Welcome Brigid
(2005)		 Chalice of God
Chalice of God
(2005) 		The Path
The Path
(2004) 		Mirabilis
Mirabilis
(2001)
Circle of Wisdom
Circle of Wisdom
(1998)

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Welcome Brigid
(2005)

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      Welcome Brigid is the title track of Katy's 3rd CD, which features medieval, celtic, and original devotional chant and song to the Divine Feminine. Katy is joined by Amy Fradon on vocals and accompanies herself on hurdy gurdy, shruti box, concertina, and flutes. Also Lynn Margileth, frame drums, and Julie Last, vocals, keyboard, bells, tambourine, recording, sound engineering, mixing.

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      Hail Mary    
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      Hail to Thee
      Sacred Three
      Ode to Brigid

 
 

Songs on the CD

  1. Welcome Brigid. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Celtic prayer.
  2. Salve Regina. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: traditional Latin prayer, adapted.
  3. Hail Mary. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: traditional prayer, adapted.
  4. Sacred Three/N Trì Nùmh. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Celtic prayer.
  5. Wisdom of Serpent. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Celtic prayer.
  6. O Virtus Sapientie. Hildegard von Bingen.
  7. Ave Maria. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: traditional prayer, adapted.
  8. Hail to Thee. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Celtic prayer.
  9. Our Mother. Katy Taylor.
  10. Salve Mundi Domina. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: traditional prayer, adapted.
  11. Alleluia Virga. Hildegard von Bingen.
  12. In the Early Morning. Katy Taylor.
  13. Poem to Brigit. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Celtic prayer.
  14. Litany to Our Lady. Setting: Katy Taylor; Text: Anonymous Irish.
  15. Daughter of Will. Katy Taylor.
  16. Ave Maris Stella. Gregorian Chant.
  17. Ode to Brigid/Ave Maris Stella. Anonymous Irish and Gregorian Chant.
Chalice of God
A Universal Mass of Spirit
(2005)

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      This music was commissioned by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music and composed by Katy Taylor and Amy Fradon.

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      The Chalice of God    
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      Our Spirit
      Peace to Thee

 
 

Songs on the CD

  1. The Chalice of God
  2. I Praise Thee
  3. Our Spirit
  4. Peace to Thee
  5. The Maiden Song
  6. As I Shine

It was our intention to channel/create a body of music that is interfaith accessible‹that explores concepts of God and practice which transcend the various established religious expressions, yet is still grounded in traditional spiritual and religious experience. For this reason, we chose parts of the form of the traditional Mass, as a depiction of the ritualized journey an initiation into and with God presence that is a part of any spiritual quest. We brainstormed with a female Episcopal priest about what the different components of the mass symbolize. Amy allowed the form and intention to offer lyrics through her, and Katy subsequently channeled the music from the inspiration of the words and intention. Arrangements were created together. The phases of the journey include the opening (Kyrie), praising (Gloria), prayer (Pater Noster), peace (Passing of the Peace), innocence (Agnus Dei), and abundance (Ite Misse Est).

 
 
The Path (2004)

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      This CD was recorded live in the gorgeous chapel of Holy Cross Monastery, a Benedictine Order, in West Park, New York. As it was recorded in a live space, you will hear a few unplanned accompaniments in some of the pieces: the radiator, a train in the background, a cough or two, and the spirits of seekers from years gone by.

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      Sainte Nicholaes    
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      Puer Natus est Nobis
      The Boughs of Evergreen

 
  We love singing Christmas music- telling the Christmas story of Incarnation, Light, and Love in the darkest time of the year always lifts our spirits and prepares us for the New Year. And we are blessed to be able to do this with each other as we are dear friends and sisters. We sang these pieces for our community on a blizzarding December 14th night and continued to work into the wee hours of the morning singing through the deep, peaceful silence created by the sacred space of the monastery and by the deepening snow outside. We hope you will be drawn into the warmth, comfort and mystery that the energy of this night and the power of the music created. And may all your lives be full of the truest blessings of the Christ."
-- Katy and Amy
 
 
Mirabilis
(2001)

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      Joined by Jeanne Nametz on this first mostly-live CD, instrumentation includes a medieval hurdy gurdy, flute, and drum.

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      Thanks to Thee, Oh God
      In the Early Morning
      O Rubor Sanguinis

 
 

Songs on the CD

  1. Thanks to Thee, Oh God. tune: Katy Taylor: text: Celtic Prayer, edited, studio cut
  2. The Sun. tune: Katy Taylor, text: Celtic Prayer, adapted
  3. Kyrie & Instrumental. Katy Taylor, based on Hildegard von Bingen's song O Frondens Virga (1098-1179)
  4. In the Early Morning. Katy Taylor
  5. Dou Way, Robin / Sancta Mater Graciae. Anon. English 13th c.
  6. Flock of Angels. Katy Taylor
  7. Come Thou Fount. tune: Katy Taylor, text: Malcolm Daglish all verses except verses 1 &4 by Robert Robinson in 1758
  8. The Three. tune: Katy Taylor, text: Celtic Prayer, edited & adapted
  9. O Rubor Sanguinis. Hildegard von Bingen
  10. Our Mother. Katy Taylor
  11. In the Early Morning, instrumental. Katy Taylor
  12. Be Thou. tune: Katy Taylor, text: Celtic Prayer, edited & adapted
  13. The Chosen. Katy Taylor
  14. Avalon. Katy Taylor
  15. The Peace. whistle tune: Traditional Irish, adapted; song tune: adapted by Katy Taylor from existing whistle tune; text: Celtic Prayer, edited (2:42)
  16. Karitas. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) (2:30), with audience
 
 
Circle of Wisdom
(1998)

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   This rich and contemplative album is a collection of the chants of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), medieval nun, abbess and mystic, which were sung by the nuns of her abbey, day after day, year after year, but not written down until near her death. The music is performed by a medieval choir Katy sang with in Vermont, and the voices of the group's 14 women, rising and circling with Hildegard's stunning melodies, are full of the earthy spirituality of the middle ages; vielle (medieval fiddle), harp, and flute accompany.

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      O beata infantia
      O Bonifaci
      O quam mirabilis est

 
 

Songs on the CD

  1. O virtus Sapeintie ensemble
  2. O quam mirabilis est Katy Tayor
  3. O viriditas digiti Dei ensemble
  4. O tu suavissima virga Betsy Brigham and ensemble
  5. O lucidissima apostolorum Susan Comen and ensemble
  6. Instrumental piece
  7. O Bonifaci ensemble
  8. Instrumental piece
  9. O beata infantia ensemble
  10. O nobilllisima viriditas Gail Ireland
  11. O ignee spiritus Gail Ireland, Elizabeth Thompson, Anik Gibeau, and Nancy Snow
  12. Vos flores rosarum ensemble