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GOOD MORNING GOOD PEOPLE 

‘Good Morning Good People’ is the ‘big-work’ of Peter's creative life. It weaves music, images, songs and narration to tell the life story of St Francis of Assisi. The visual dimension of this video is a sequence of images drawn from medieval art and other sources to illustrate various stages in the life of St Francis. The soundtrack is an excellent recording of a live concert featuring Roma Dix (flute), Catherine Mahony (singing) and Peter Kearney (singing, guitar and narration). The video can be viewed on YouTube or as an MP4 file with no YouTube advertisements. 

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The best way to view the YouTube video is on a Smart TV via the YouTube app (while connected to the internet). Find the video by either of these methods: 
* Search in YouTube: GOOD MORNING GOOD PEOPLE KEARNEY 
Find and click on the ‘Good Morning Good People’ Thumbnail to play. 
Total duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes. Part 1 - 45 mins /Part 2 - 60 mins

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PETER'S SONG-POSTS:

Here is the link for my whole song-posts collection (144 songs at time of writing) https://peterkearney.bandcamp.com/

When you activate the link, a new browser page will open.  
* Choose a song. 
* Click on the arrow symbol to play. 
* While listening, scroll a little down the screen to follow the lyrics &/or read information about the song
* A song can be freely played three times. If playing more, an on onscreen notice invites purchase of the track for a small fee.

ABOUT SONG-POSTS:  Peter has gradually been posting his songs online using the Bandcamp platform.  The series has been growing since July 2019. At time of writing 144songs have been posted. The song will often relate to a feast day, a season or topical theme. Some tracks have been published for the first time through Song-Posts.

Through the Bandcamp site you can listen to a song, see its lyrics, background information and some data re resources relevant to that song - PDF music, CDs etc. 

The main aim of Song-Posts is to give Peter's songs a hearing - unfamiliar songs as well as old favourites. The range of songs posted is broad – some liturgical, some not ... mainly for adults, some for children, some songs touching on social-justice themes or telling the stories of worthy people. 

Not every 'song-post' will be a winner for you, but there will always a different song coming up, while the project lasts. All songs posted are available for use, all registered with the One License licensing scheme for parishes, schools and other institutions.

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PETER'S BLOG 

Walking 'The  Beara Way’ - Ireland 2022

In August 2022, Peter completed a 10-day walk around the Beara Peninsula in SW Ireland. He walked 150km through some beautiful, rugged, quite remote terrain, resting at night in colourful villages. To see Peter's photos and text describing the walk, click on the links below to view his blog about the walk. (The Beara Way is the most recent in a series of walks Peter has completed over the past eleven years. See also the DVDs page on this website or the section at the foot of this page).

The Beara Way - Part One
https://alongtheway2022.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-beara-way-part-one.html

The Beara Way - Part Two
https://alongtheway2022.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-beara-way-part-02.html
 

DVDs  ABOUT OTHER WALKS

In recent years Peter has combined two interests - walking and photography - to create DVDs that weave music with his narration and photographs. He has walked two 700km+ sections of the pilgrimage paths known as the Camino de Santiago (to the burial place of St. James the Apostle in north-west Spain).

Five of Peter's walk DVDs are available: (click on links for more information).

1. Walking the Camino (Spain) 
2. Ultreia - a Camino in France 
3. Surprising Ireland, Deeper Home
4. The Kerry Way (Ireland)
5. Side Tracks of the Southern Highlands (Australia)
    

Peter walking the Camino in Spain

BRIEF BIO

• Peter Kearney has been called "a pioneer in contemporary religious song". His earliest hymns 'Fill My House' and 'The Beatitudes' became internationally known and are still widely sung. From 1982 Peter made music his work. As well as writing and publishing he has toured in all Australian states ... and overseas in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the USA to present his workshops and concerts.
   
• Fifteen albums of his songs and hymns have been published. He has written for adults and for children and his compositions are included in many hymnals. Several of his titles including Where Is Your Song, my Lord? are included in the 'As One Voice' hymnal. His 'This Is Our School' has been adopted as a school song by hundreds of Australian schools.
   
• Peter's earthy songs of justice and peace have been recognised as a distinctive contribution to the modern Church. Many of his songs were inspired through a long friendship with Fr. Ted Kennedy. Fr. Kennedy was priest at St. Vincent's Parish, Redfern in Sydney for 30-years and in that time was known as a fierce advocate and great friend for Aboriginal people. Peter was only nineteen when he first met Ted, who was then the Catholic Chaplain at Sydney University. It was at that time, with Ted's encouragement that Peter wrote 'Fill My House' and 'The Beatitudes'.

PHOTO: Fr Ted Kennedy in the 1970s 

• The 'big work' of Peter's creative life Good Morning Good People, a musical-narrative on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, has been presented all over Australia. There have also been over forty GMGP concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland.