Sam the Harpist Contemporary and Classical harpist - from Bach to The Beach Boys!

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The guide prices below are for events within 20 miles of Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
Ceremony: £434
All song choices can be decided by the couple and don’t have to be off of my song list.
Drinks reception: £434
Ceremony and drinks reception: £546
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With a first class Honours degree from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in both pedal harp and traditional Clàrsach, Sam has the repertoire and experience to suit any occasion.
Experienced in weddings, Sam can offer guidance and advice on song choices for each special moment, and is familiar with most prestigious wedding venues across Scotland and the North of England. She is used to working with pipers and celebrants, and works closely and is recommended by a number of high profile venues in Scotland.
Along with venues she is also more than happy to play outside, and her clàrsach allows her to bring harp music up tight spiral towers in castles, into off-the-road fairy glens, and even onto boats!

Sam takes requests and is happy to tailor her song list and background music to make the event perfect. She has an extensive song list which she has compiled from her years of performing at events and is constantly updating and learning new material.

Pedal harp: Full orchestral pedal harp with discreet amplification. Perfect for that showstopping look.

Clàrsach: Traditional clarsàch for tighter spaces, and also to add an element of traditional Scottish.

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10 / 101

Location

Based in Glasgow, Lanarkshire

Will travel up to 500 miles
green circle = areas covered (up to 500 miles)
pink circle = free travel (up to 20 miles)
Please note that the circles shown on the map are calculated "as the crow flies". By road distances may vary, so please get in touch for an accurate quote.

Modern

500 Miles – The Proclaimers

A

A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles

A Thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton

Africa - Toto

Aint No Sunshine – Bill Withers

Always Remember Us This Way – Lady Gaga

All Of Me – John Legend

All My Loving – The Beatles

All You Need is Love – The Beatles

As Long As You Love Me – The Backstreet Boys

Avril 14th – Aphex Twin

B

Be Alright – Lucy Rose

Better Off Alone – Alice Deejay

Better Together – Jack Johnson

Billie Jean – Michael Jackson

Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve

Blackbird- The Beatles

Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel

Bring Me Sunshine

Brown Eyed Girl

Budapest – George Ezra

C

Caledonia – Dougie McClean

Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis

C’est La Vie – B*witched

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

Chasing Pavements – Adele

Children – Robert Miles

Clocks – Coldplay

Come Away with Me – Norah Jones

Cosmic Love - Florence and the Machine

D

Descpacito

Don’t Stop Believing - Journey

Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia

Dreams – Fleetwood Mac

E

Everything – Michael Buble

Everything I do (I Do if For You) – Bryan Adams

Everlong – The Foo Fighters

F

Feeling Good – Muse

Fields of Gold - Sting

Fireflies – Owl City

Firestone - Kygo

Forget You

G

Gimme, Gimme, Gimmee (A Man After Midnight) – Abba

Grace – Donna Taggart

Greatest Day – Take That!

H

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Halo - Beyonce

Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles

Ho Hey – The Lumineers

Hold My Girl – George Ezra

Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Hoppippola – Sigur Ros

How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding

Human – The Killers

Hymn for the Weekend - Coldplay

I-J

I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith

I’m Yours – Jason Mraz

If I aint Got You – Alicia Keys

Intro – The XX

Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder

I Only Want to Be With You – Dusty Springfield

I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash

Jesus Christ – Brand New

K

Knowing Me, Knowing You – Abba

L

Lady - Modjo

Let It Be – The Beatles

Let Her Go – Passenger

Let’s Get Married – The Proclaimers

Living on a Prayer – Bon Jovi

M

Make You Feel My Love - Adele

Marry You – Bruno Mars

N

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

New Born – Muse

O

One Day Like This - Elbow

One More Time – Daft Punk

One Thousand Years – Christina Perri

Only You - Yazoo

P

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Photograph – Ed Sheeran

Proud Mary – Tina Turner

R

Riders on The Storm – The Doors

Rolling in the Deep - Adele

S

Sandstorm - Darude

September – Earth, Wind, and Fire

Shape of You – Ed Sheeran

Silly Love Songs – Paul McCartney

Signed Sealed Delivered – Stevie Wonder

Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

Slow Dancing in the Dark – Joji

Somewhere Only We Know – Lily Allen

Songbird – Christine McVie

Stand By Me

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond

Sweet Home Alabama

T-V

Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton

The Dog Days Are Over – Florence and the Machine

The Greatest Day – Take That

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

Time, As a Symptom of Love – Joanna Newsome

Titanium – David Guetta

Three Little Birds – Bob Marley

Toxic – Britney Spears

Use Somebody – Kings of Leon

Viva Forever – The Spice Girls

W

Walking on Sunshine – Catriona and the Waves

Wake me Up – Aviici

Walls – Kings of Leon

We Found Love – Rhianna

Where is My Mind – the Pixies

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Wonderwall – Oasis

World of Our Own - Westlife

Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys

Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush

Y

You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller

Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey

Your Song – Elton John

Yours – Ella Henderson

You’re Still the One – Shania Twain

Classics and Jazz

A

(Is this the way to) Amarillo

Always on My Mind – Elvis Presley

At Last – Etta James*

Autumn Leaves

B

Black Coffee

Bring me Sunshine – Arthur Kent

D-E

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend – Jule Styne

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend – Jule Styne

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Everything – Michael Bublé

F-H

Fly Me to the Moon – Bart Howard

Golden Slumbers – The Beatles

Guilty

Have You Met Miss Jones?

How High The Moon

I

I’d like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

I’m Beginning to See The Light

Isn’t She Lovely

It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)

I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

L

La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf

Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver

Lovin’ You – Minnie Ripperton

Lullaby of Birdland – George Shearing

M-P

Mack the knife

Moon River

Morning has Broken – Cat Stevens

My Way – Sinatra

Non, Je ne regrette rien – Charles Dumont

Over The Rainbow

Please Mr Postman – B. Holland

S

Senorita – Shaun Mendez

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Smile – Charles Chaplin

Spanish Eyes – Kaempfert

Spanish Flea – Julius Wechter

Stella By Starlight

Summetime

T

That’s Amore – Dean Martin

The Air that I breathe – Albert Hammond

The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

The Windmills of Your Mind – Michel Legrand

They long to be close to you – Burt Bacharach

Tijuana Taxi – Bud Coleman

Top of the World – Richard Carpenter

U

Unforgettable

Up, Up and Away – Jim Webb

W

Walk on By – Burt Bacharach

What A Difference A Day Made – Jamie Cullum

What A Wonderful World

What the World Needs Now is Love – Burt Bacharach

Y

Yellow Submarine – Lennon & McCartney

Yesterday – Lennon & McCartney

You’ll Never Walk Alone – From Carousel

Young at Heart

Disney

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

A Whole New World

Bella Notte

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

Feed The Birds

Hakuna Matata

He’s a tramp

I See The Light – Tangled

Let it Go

Let’s Go Fly a Kite

Married Life (Up)

Part of Your World

Someday my prince will come

Something There

Tale as old as time

The Bare Necessities

Under The Sea

When Somebody Loved Me

When You Wish Upon a Star

You’ve Got a Friend in Me

You’ll Be in My Heart (Tarzan)*

Classical

A

Adagio, Sonata Op.5, No. 10 – Corelli

Air from Water Music – Handel

Allegro A minor – Giulani

Aria from Sonata for Flute – Vinci

Au Matin – Tournier*

Ave Maria – Schubert

C

Caro Mio Ben – Giordano

Concerto Eb – O’ Carolan

D - F

Debussy – Premier Arabesque *

Finlandia (Theme) – Sibelius

G-J

Gymnopedies – Satie

Harpicide at Midnight – Chertok*

Hornpipe from Water Music – Handel

I Giorni – Einaudi

Jesu, joy of Man’s Desiring – Bach

L

Larghetto – Handel

Largo – Handel

Laudate Dominum

Le Printemps – Einaudi

O-M

O Mio Babbini Caro - Puccini

Menuet – Buttstedt

Minuetto E minor – Scarlatti

P

Pachabel’s Canon – Pachabel

Panis Angelicus

Pie Jesu

Prelude 2 – Tournier*

Prelude in C – Bach

Primavera - Einaudi

R-T

River Flows in You - Yiruma

Sheep May Safely Graze – Bach

Spring from the four seasons – Vivaldi

The Swan – Saint Saens

Traumerei – Schumann

Trumpet Tune – Jeremiah Clarke

W

Wedding March – Mendelssohn

Wedding March - Wagner

Folk – Scottish and Irish

Auld Lang Syne,

Caledonia,

Complainte de la blanche biche – Anonymous, 16th Century

Flow Gently Sweet Afton

Go lassie, Go

Greensleeves

Highland Cathederal

Leezie Lindsey

Loch Lomond

Marry Me Now

Molly Malone

My love is like a Red, Red Rose (Burns)

O’Carolan’s welcome

Sands of Hosta

Scotland the Brave

She Moved through the fair

The Fields of Atherny

The Old Reel/G minor Reel

Town I Loved So Well

Whiskey In the Jar

Will Ye No Come Back Again? (Burns)

Women of Ireland

Hymns

Abide With Me

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Amazing Grace

At The Name of Jesus

Dear Lord and Father of Manking

Give Me Joy In My Heart

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Guide me O, Thou Great Redeemer

How Great Though Art

I, The Lord of Sea and Sky

Lord of All Hopefulness

Lord of the Dance

Love Diving, All Loves Excelling

Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Morning Has Broken

One Small Step Along the World

Praise My Soul, The King of Heaven

Shine, Jesus Shine

Thine Be the Glory

Film / TV Music

Après le autre ete (Amelie)

Always With Me (Spirited Away)

A Million Dreams (The Greatest Showman)

Ashitaka and San (Princess Mononoke)

Babe (Saint-Saens Organ Concerto, theme from 3rd movement)

Bella’s Lullaby (Twilight)

City of Stars (La La Land)

Concerning Hobbits (LOTR)

For The Love of A Princess (Theme From Braveheart)

The Godfather (Love Theme)

Island Song (Adventure Time)

Love Actually (The Glasgow Love Theme)

Moon River (Breakfast At Tiffany’s)

One Summer’s Day (Spirited Away)

Rose Theme (Titanic)

River Flows In You (Twilight)

Up (Married Life)

Waltz of Chihiro (Spirited Away)

You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)

Game Music

Final Fantasy

FFIV – Theme of Love

FFVI – Aria Di Mezzo Carattere

FFVII – Aeris Theme

To Zanarkland

The Legend of Zelda

Great Fairy Fountain

Lost Woods

Sacred Grove

Sheik’s Theme

Zelda’s Lullaby

Gwyn lord of Cinder – Theme

Kingdom Hearts – Clearly Beloved

Seasonal

Christmas songs including:

A la Nanita Nana

All I want for Christmas is You

Angels from the Realms of Glory

Angels We have heard on high

Away in a Manger

Baby it’s cold outside

Blue Christmas

Carol of the Bells (Home Alone Song)

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (The Chistmas Song)

Christ Child’s Lullaby

Christmas Lights -Coldplay

Come, All Ye Shepherds

Coventry Carol

Fairytale of New York

The First Nowell

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy*

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Divinum Mysterium

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Do You hear What I Hear?

Feliz Navidad

The First Noel

Frosty The Snowman

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Good King Wenceslas

Hallelujah Chorus

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

The Holly and the Ivy

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

I Wonder as I Wander

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

Jingle Bell Rock

June in January

Last Christmas

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Mele Kalikimaka

Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Xmas Everybody

The Most Wonderful Time of the year

O Come O Come Emmanuel

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Santa Baby

Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town

Silent Night

Silver Bells

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

White Christmas

Requests

I can learn and arrange any music

not on the list for ceremonies, provided

I have at least one month’s notice.

I can give advice on choosing repertoire

and work closely with couples

on their music choices.

Technical Info

What are your basic technical requirements?

An armless chair

Performance Info

What are your typical setup and performance times?

I arrive one hour before a gig time to make sure I have plenty of time. However, I only need about 15 minutes to set up.

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