About
Kim Kirkman is a harp player for hire in Sunshine Coast, QLD.
Over two hours of harp repertoire, all of it from memory, and a habit of arranging whatever else you ask for. Kim Kirkman has been playing professionally for more than thirty years on the Sunshine Coast, and the song list wanders happily across centuries: Pachelbel's Canon and Debussy's Clair de Lune next to Danny Boy, The Ash Grove and Planxty Irwin, then Fields of Gold, Here Comes the Sun and the Forrest Gump feather theme. Weddings, funerals and morning melodies are all regular work. The setup is about as simple as live music gets. Two minutes and a chair, and the room sounds different.
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The show
Thirty years of professional playing behind the instrument, and it tells in the first minute. Kim knows the repertoire cold, so nothing is being read off a stand or worked out on the spot. What you get is a harpist who has done this at enough weddings, funerals and daytime events to be entirely unbothered by whatever your run sheet does, and a sound that quietly changes the feel of a room without ever competing with conversation.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
47 songs
A thousand years - Christina Perry
All Through the Night - Traditional
All you need is love - Beatles
Amazing grace - Traditional
Annie’s song - John Denver
The Ashgrove - Traditional
Black is the colour - Traditional
Canon - Pachabel
Chanter - Traditional
Claire de lune - Debussy
Danny boy - Traditional
Earl of Essex - Traditional
Edelweis - Sound of Music
Feather theme from Forrest Gump
Fields of Gold - Sting
Fires at midnight - Traditional
Gabriel’s Oboe - The Mission
The Gentle Maiden - Traditional
Greensleeves - Traditional
Groovy kind of love - Phil Collins
Halleluiah – Cohen
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Here comes the sun - Beatles
I can’t take my eyes off of you - Frankie Vallie
