All prices include tax and shipping.  Thank you, friend, for your interest!

If you live outside the US and would like to order CDs or books, please drop me a line at kate@katechadbourne.com and we’ll sort out the shipping.  It would be thrilling to send music or poems to Iceland, for example.  Or Indonesia.  Or wherever you are!

  • HOORAY! Here is my brand new ebook of "Novemberish" stories, poems, and seasonal delights, including Irish folklore, a taste of etymology, a recipe for a truly wonderful cake, a good riddle, and a cast of characters that includes giants, hags, ghosts, foxes, owls, magical musicians, mermaids, a mysterious baker, and many more. The accompanying audiobook, which includes everything in the ebook, opens the door for you to three hours of warm, intimate, company-keeping with me.  It sounds like a dream because it was professionally recorded, mixed, and mastered by the amazing Lauren Passarelli. If you've ever wanted my voice in your ear, well, here it is - and you know that I LOVE to do all the voices and savor every inflection. Your purchase receipt includes three download links - the ebook itself, and the two parts of the audiobook. Please note that this is a virtual offering (rather than a physical CD or printed book). The contents of this book are in many ways the contents of my heart. I am so grateful to you for your interest in "meeting" it and me in the bleak and beautiful world of November.  
  • Songs of folklore and festivity that celebrate the Irish traditional year

    Want my brand new CD to come in the mail to your home? I’d love to send one to you! In this bundle, I’ll post a physical CD to you and a little note, too (because I love snail mail). Also, as soon as you order, you’ll receive by email a link to download my beautiful e-book of folk tradition, scholarship, and suggestions for celebrating these Irish feast days. (So, just to be clear: the book is not a physical book, but an e-book that you’ll read on your laptop, phone, or tablet, and of course you're welcome to print it out). For complete details about this recording, just look below.
  • A collaboration with Berklee College of Music Guitar Professor and Recording Studio Wizard, Lauren Passarelli! Ten original songs with lush, sparkling arrangements - including vocals, guitar, piano, harp, drums, accordion, flute, bass, melodeon, and a host of midi instruments. Danceable, singable, soul-lifting pop rock with heart and groove!
  • Become an Irish speaker this fall!

    Join us to learn the essentials that will transform you into an Irish speaker quickly and joyfully.

    Our course includes:
    • 8 fun weekly class meetings on Zoom where you'll practice, laugh, and learn in a warm community of Irishy people
    • weekly teaching videos that introduce the week's phrases and guide you to speak them with confidence
    • weekly resource sheets with everything you need and nothing you don't: you won't be overloaded in this course!
    At the end of our time together, you'll receive a pdf booklet of all of the course materials to keep, and you'll have access to the course videos to review anytime you wish.

    If you have always wanted to learn the language of Ireland - a language that calls to you through the poetry, stories, and songs you love - this course is for you!

    3 October - 27 November 2023 Find out more about the course below.
  • A one-hour poetry workshop with Kate Chadbourne on the subject of Inspiration:
    • You'll create three poems in an atmosphere of fun, ease, and pleasure with my loving guidance
    • You'll investigate your connection with the life-giving energy of Inspiration
    • You'll spend a beautiful, creative hour with yourself
  • Grow wiser, braver. and more useful this winter in this Celtic Wisdom School course - mentored by the world-building Cailleach and the world-healing Bean Feasa!

    Join us to learn about the Cailleach, the hag of Irish tradition, and her human counterpart, the Bean Feasa or wise woman, whose insight and compassion save the day in many Irish tales. With their excellent example, we'll endeavor to become wiser, more discerning, clearer, more creative, and more deeply useful to our friends, families, and communities. We will conspire with the Cailleach in her world-building and world-tending, and as a group we'll become a conspiracy of Cailleachs as we embody her fierce vitality on our way to becoming as wise and useful as the Bean Feasa. Our time together combines video lessons and storytelling, materials drawn and translated from Irish folklore and mythology, and a weekly 90-minute gathering where the real fun, learning, and transformation happen. In addition, you'll be invited into a one-on-one correspondence with Kate centered around each week's powerful question. At the end of the course, you'll receive a pdf booklet of all of the course materials to keep. 9 January - 26 February 2023 Find out more about the course below.
  • Songs of folklore and festivity that celebrate the Irish traditional year

    Want a digital download of my brand new CD to listen to on your favorite devices? Here it is! In this bundle, you'll receive a digital copy of A Celtic Blessing Year. You'll also receive my beautiful e-book of folk tradition, scholarship, and suggestions for celebrating these Irish feast days. After your purchase, you'll receive an email with two links - one marked Album and one marked Book. Click on those links and the music and book will download onto your device.
    For complete details about the songs and the ebook, just look below.
  • A brand new book of poems!  These are short, readable, image-rich, and lyrical.  If you'd like me to sign your book, just let me know in the buying notes and tell me to whom you want your book inscribed.  It will be my pleasure.  
  • Owl in the tree goes hoot in the night Fox in the bush goes bark Owl in the tree goes hoot in the night Fox in the bush goes bark Up in the sky the wind goes sigh But the shadows they say dark In the dark
      An original song, co-written with guitar and recording wizard Lauren Passarelli, which celebrates the power and mystery of the dark. The cast of characters includes owl, fox, the wind, the moon, a girl in a tower, whales in the Sea, and of course, the dark. Along with the song download, you also receive a lyric sheet which you can print or send as a gift (or keep for yourself).
  • A collection of beloved poems in English and Irish that I've set to music for voice, piano, and harp. In addition to the CD, please feel most welcome to download my resource book which contains the texts of the poems, biographies of the poets, and questions and ideas to spark your own poems.  FREE:  my gift to you!
  • Continue your journey as an Irish speaker this winter!

    Join us to practice and learn more Irish in a class that gets you speaking and communicating joyfully, easily, and with great confidence and fun.

    Our course includes:

    • 8 fun weekly class meetings on Zoom where you'll practice, laugh, and learn in a warm community of Irishy people
    • weekly teaching videos that introduce the week's phrases and guide you to speak them with confidence
    • weekly resource sheets with everything you need and nothing you don't: you won't be overloaded in this course!
    At the end of our time together, you'll receive a pdf booklet of all of the course materials to keep, and you'll have access to the course videos to review anytime you wish.

    What distinguishes the successful Irish learner? One main thing: keeping going. Join us in January and lean ar aghaidh - keep going!

    16 January - 18 March 2024

    Find out more about the course below.
  • Kate's brand new EP of piano dances - jigs, waltzes, and sprightly tunes. This is one to put on "repeat" as total playing time equals about 11 minutes - but boy, they are JOYful, heart-lifting minutes!
  • Out of stock
    In Brigit’s Woven World and other poems of Ireland, the reader is introduced to saints, spirits, wise women, hags, enchanting places, and the Irish language itself. As a scholar and as a poet, I have long been inspired and fascinated by the Irish imagination and its many reflections in folklore, mythology, music, and storytelling. These poems flow out of my own lived experience of that deep and shining well.
  • A concise e-book guaranteed to light your spark and get you practicing! The book debunks old, crusty ideas that keep you from practicing, invites you into the warm circle of practicing artists, and offers practical and sometimes surprising suggestions for spicing up your practice routine. This is not your scary old music teacher’s vision of practice, rest assured. Whether you love to practice, feel burdened by it, or sometimes skip it altogether, there’s inspiration and empowerment for you here. Join the Practice Revolution!
  • The Irishy Girl gathers some of my favorite traditional songs in Irish and English, all of them special because they connect me to people and places I love.
  • A collaboration with Berklee College of Music Guitar Professor and Recording Studio Wizard, Lauren Passarelli! Ten original songs with lush, sparkling arrangements - including vocals, guitar, piano, harp, drums, accordion, flute, bass, melodeon, and a host of midi instruments. Danceable, singable, soul-lifting pop rock with heart and groove! (This listing is for the digital download)
  • Every hand that touches you Every eye that falls upon you Every mouth that speaks of you Let there be love
      A song to bless and protect anyone at a fearful or vulnerable time.  I created this song for a little boy who had been taken into foster care, but it applies just as much to anyone going into surgery or treatment of any kind.  Really, anyone who is entering the uncertain territory of care by others would be helped by the reminder that they are held, loved, and blessed.  At some stage, that is all of us! Along with the song download, you also receive a lyric sheet which you can print or send with your gift (or keep for yourself).
  • Well-Wishing Songs is a collection of 16 blessing songs, improvised on piano and harp, and one song with words to welcome a newborn baby (or anyone who needs to remember how dearly welcome we all are here). Each song is woven through with all my heartfelt wishes for flourishing and joy in every aspect of your life, dear listener!
  • Welcome home, the new home says Though you are new I feel I know you Welcome to my hearth, she says Come fill my rooms with love and light and joy
    from "Welcome Home," a song commissioned to encourage a friend who was moving away to a new home

    Would you love a beautiful and one-of-a-kind song to celebrate a milestone in your life or in the life of someone you love?

    Would you love a song to bless and encourage yourself or a friend?

    It is my JOY and honor to create commissioned songs that express love and care, that celebrate important achievements or life moments, and that offer blessing, protection, and encouragement. I love to use my gift for music and songwriting to help foster love and connection.  I consciously weave blessing and Reiki energy into every song I make - so there's even more to these songs than words and music!  They carry love and spirit, and YOU are woven into the song, too. This is a very special and meaningful gift to share with the people you love. Anne M, who commissioned "Welcome Home," writes,
    "Thank you from every corner of my heart for the beautiful, perfect blessing song for my friend.  You caught the exact spirit I wanted, more than I ever knew.  I know she will love it, too!"
    To find out more about the process of creating your song, see the note below.

    I will love creating something beautiful for you!

  • Welcome, Tiny Body Welcome, Mighty Soul Overjoyed to greet you Love and light be your new home.
      A song to welcome and celebrate a new baby.  This song is also a powerful blessing for anyone who needs to remember how deeply welcome they are in this world, this life, right now, today.  May it hold your new little one - or the little one inside you - in a radiant circle of welcome, safety, love, and blessing. Along with the song download, you also receive a lyric sheet which you can print or send with your gift (or keep for yourself).
  • My first solo CD features 16 of original songs with accompaniment by Tom Anderson (bass), Matt Heaton (bodhran and guitar), Valerie Thompson (cello), and Booth Hardy (drums).
  • Fifty Years are deep and strong Fifty Years might seem quite long, but Fifty Years are never wrong My dears, my dears, three cheers for Fifty Years!
    I made this song to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of a very dear couple.  It highlights both the grace and the commitment necessary to reach such a milestone.  Fifty years is indeed a long road, but those who have walked it deserve our accolades and gratitude!  I hope this song will add JOY and a touch of levity to your celebration or to those you wish to honor.  It makes a great gift or can be included in a digital slideshow of photographs from those fifty years. Along with the song download, you also receive a lyric sheet which you can print or send with your gift (or keep for yourself).
  • The Harp-Boat  features poems about growing up in a fishing family on the Maine coast.  It is the winner of the Kulupi Press Sense of Place Chapbook Contest. SOLD OUT. Thank you so much for your interest in this book!  I'm looking into ways to have it re-printed.
  • Are you a solo performer - musician, poet, storyteller, historical re-enactor, or spoken word artist - who is tired of playing for free or for tips? Would you like to book more shows and to perform for attentive, respectful, appreciative audiences? Would you like to stop playing for "exposure" and start earning good money for your investment of effort, care, and skill? If so, How to Get Gigs You Love will help transform your gigging life.
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