Songs
1. In View Of Your Mercy
2. Lend Me Your Heart
3. My Refuge
4. Breathe On Me
5. Come Satisfy
6. We Will Look To The Cross
Albums
1. Lend Me Your Heart (Digital Only)
2. Introducing Claire Hamilton
Tour Dates
6 April 2012 - 15 April 2012
Los Angeles
25 March 2012 - 25 March 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
18 March 2012 - 18 March 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
4 March 2012 - 4 March 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
26 February 2012 - 26 February 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
18 February 2012 - 18 February 2012
Glenmachan Church of God, Belfast - With Matt Redman and LZ7
18 February 2012 - 18 February 2012
CFC Belfast - Worship Seminar With Matt Redman
15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012
Nashville, TN
11 February 2012 - 14 February 2012
Bethel Church - Redding California
5 February 2012 - 5 February 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
29 January 2012 - 29 January 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
22 January 2012 - 22 January 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
26 May 2012 - 26 May 2012
Wellington Presbyterian Church, Ballymena NI
27 May 2012 - 27 May 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
10 June 2012 - 10 June 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
17 June 2012 - 17 June 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
24 June 2012 - 24 June 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
29 June 2012 - 15 July 2012
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (Habitat for Humanity NI)
20 May 2012 - 20 May 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
4 May 2012 - 6 May 2012
IRELAND, Jesus Tour with Andy Frost & Nathan Jess
29 April 2012 - 29 April 2012 7pm
CFC Belfast
22 April 2012 - 22 April 2012 9am, 10.30am and 12pm
CFC Belfast
Worship Leaders
My BlogClaire Hamilton
For Claire Hamilton - worship leader, songwriter and music teacher within her local high school - the act of making worship music is not the final destination. Instead Claire understands the link between what we sing and how we live. And across ‘Introducing Claire Hamilton’ her debut solo EP, there’s an infectious desire to make our worship count.
All this started for Claire more than 11 years ago. Under the wings of Alan and Kathryn Scott (writer of the songs ‘Hungry’ and ‘At the Foot of the Cross’), Claire started to lead worship. Things moved on with Claire joining the Johnny Parks Band, where she co-wrote a number of songs including ‘All Is Well’. A music degree at Queens University (Belfast) led to the start of another calling as a music teacher. Joining Rend Collective Experiment in 2009 coincided with Claire signing to Kingsway and releasing a digital 3 track release, ‘Lend Me Your Heart’.
2011 opens up the door for Claire’s debut EP solo album. Introducing Claire Hamilton is a perfect blend of Kathryn Scott with Kim Walker-Smith, full of organic, heart-felt, unhindered worship that charms, stretches and inspires. In ‘Breathe On Me’ she offers one of the most simple, yet powerful songs around today, while ‘Lend Me Your Heart’ is a uniquely challenging and engaging song.
‘I guess I write out of my own experience,’ explains Claire. ‘I write about what I feel at the time and so the songs are not generally planned. It’s kind of like I’m cataloging my experiences in songs. What have I learnt from it all? To write about what I feel and what I care about even if I feel like it’s something we already know.’
She’s right, too. The Church has never needed offers of magic formulas or easy shortcuts. Our mission is clear, and true worship reflects that:
‘I think the songs communicate justice, serving the least, God’s mercy, God’s comfort. I feel like the church needs to hear this as it’s Jesus’ call to us. My prayer is that our songs will compel us to action, service, love, justice.’
Over the years Claire has shared the stage with the likes of Robin Mark, Bluetree, Rend Collective Experiment, Brian Houston and so many more. She has opened for Brenton Brown and Chris McClarney and been a member of Eoghan Heaslip’s worship team at New Wine. She is one of theworship leaders at CFC Belfast – a church with a great history of nurturing leaders like Robin Mark, Johnny Parks, Brian Houston and others. Claire has led worship at Global Day of Prayer and New Wine Ireland, all along remaining true to her conviction of the essential link between worship through song and worship through action.
‘The songs help me to deal with difficult times and remind me of God being present. Like ‘Breathe On Me’ - it reminds me of the simple fact that God is present in suffering. There’s great perspective to be found in the promise to worship God and have his praise on my lips despite things not going as I would like. Those words don’t just leave me once they are written and recorded - they are my prayer, they are my promise.’
Claire has recently moved into the role of leading the worship team at CFC, Belfast (Robin Mark, Johnny Parks, Brian Houston, Bluetree). Claire regularly leads worship there and welcomes anyone visiting Northern Ireland. Service times: 9am, 10:30am, 12noon, 7pm.
