Over the Summer, we played our “unnamed song” for audiences all over the country, and many people came up and generously suggested titles to help us out with our dilemma!!

We have now officially decided on a name for the song. It is from the list below, and we thought that it not only described the sea-faring feel of the song, but also it gave us an idea for track artwork!

The official new name of the song is…. *drum roll, please!*

“The Sailor and the Mermaid.” 

But I thought I would post all of the names we have collected so you can read them all! It’s quite an astounding list!
Now, without further ado and drum roll, please….
The many names of the unnamed song:

- The Battle of Gamor (James)
- The Dance of the Matador (Dan)
- The Journey of Three Sisters (Thelme)
- Escape to My Heart (Mark & Karen)
- Queen of the Beehive (Lauretta)
- Dancing in the Rain
-Break away from the Storm
- Fairyland Jamboree (Krystal)
- Dance of the Fairies (Krystal)
- Rainbow Colors (Kayla & Ella)
- Storm o’re the Isle (Carl)
- Thunder and Lightning
- Earth, Wind, and Rain (Lexie Pearson)
- Wind Chime (Rebecca Salinas Oliveros)
- Sailing West (Bob Mcbride)
- The Flight of an Eagle (Mary Schavec)
- Gothards Anthem (Ken Roper)
- Heavens Anthem (Ken Roper)
- Ballad of the Gothards (Ken Roper)
- Spirit of the Gothards (Ken Roper)
- Gothards Mountain (Ken Roper)
- Serenity Triumphs (Linda Hart)
- Going Home to a Love (John Nestler)
- Maiden Voyage (Chris)
- Irish Jig #1 (Cindy Sanders)
- Celtic Sounds (Cindy Sanders)
- The Journey (Mary Kay)
- Gypsy Road (Julie Wells)
- Celtic Call to Battle (Marcie)
- The Mermaid’s Lament (Jennifer Matson)
- Celtic Spirit in Motion (Randy)
- A Warrior’s Journey (Linda)
- Celtic Moods (Trudy)
- The Land is Mine (Steve)
- Kelpie’s Secret (Nancy R.)
- Stormy Battle (Malcolm)
- Aria’s Rose (Aria)
- Irish Aria (Aria)
- Shannon’s Aria (Aria)
- Ode to Aria (Aria)
- Irish Storm (Rico)
- The Storm (Anthony)
- Journey Around the World (Anthony)
- Irish Mystery (Justin)
- Battle of the Storm Sisters (Sarah & Haylee)
- Storms a Brewing (Sarah & Haylee)
- Revenge of the Gothard Sisters (Sarah & Haylee)
- The Eye of the Storm (Autumn)
- Withering Hearts (Joey)
- The Irish Road (Joey)
- Celtic Rage with Love (Pam)
- The Irish youngins’ (Wes)
- Shilo Civil War Battle (Pierce Schmaus)
- The Sky Cry (Keith Nicholos)
- Battle in the Rain (Mike)
- Sailing the Seas (Henry)
- Galloping Horses
- Celtic Thunder
- Viking Thunder
- Solana’s Here! (Alison Reagan)
- Kaela’s Dance (Kaela)
- Thunder
- Flower Song
- The Irish Lament
- Different Worlds
- Journey through the Forest
- Thunder in the Mountain
- 1,000 Mile Journey
- The Unknown Song
-Robbie’s Gone Away to the War
- A River’s Journey
- Too Good to Title
- The Monarch
- Bewildered Barnacle
- The Gothard Jig and Reel
- Emerging Spring
- 3 Coins
- Spring Joy
- Love’s Journey
- Slip Stream
-The Battle of Gamor
- The Rising Sun
- Celtic Fandango
- The Sailor and the Mermaid
- Maria in the Field
- Journey to *blank*
- Celtic and Beyond
- Gray Harbor’s Storm
- Ciara’s Lament
- Broken Dreams
- Haunted Dreams
- Red Rain
- Bridget’s Tears
- The Giving Tree
- Sweet Melody
- Awakening the Sun
- Sun Shining Down
- The March to Gray’s Harbor Storm
- Crashing Water
- Minstrel’s Journey
- Celtic Warriors
- Pounding Waves
- Starving Waves
- Princess Warrior
- Thunder and Lightning
- Blustery Morn
- Marching *blank*
- Changing Seasons
- Celtic Storm
- Heart’s Passion
- Wind, Rain and Fire
- Siren Song
- Beautiful 
- Storm of Minstrel’s
- Flight of the Ravens
- Running in the Storm
- The “Aha!” Song
- The Ocean Wave Shoves (Sophia)
- The Reivers Ride
- Painted Storm (Lisa Murphy)
- Independence Night (Teegan Loette)
- Last of the Gaelics (Drew D.)
- Starletts in Harmony (Darlene Eowman)
- Romantic Thunder (Larry Rogers)
- Thrice Thunder (Diane Bailey)
- Bonnie’s Blues (Bonnie Kuntz)
- Winds of Fair (Rudy Rohrbaugh)
- Call of the Maiden (Judy Landis)
- Good Vibrations on the Wind (Sam Dolheimer)
- Rumble in the Hills (Buck Enders)
- Trio of Rhapsody (Kink Alexander)
- Ahead of the Storm (Suzanne Kirkland)
- Mystic Trio (Lynn Dodd)
- One Summer Day (Kassidy & Lauren)
- Meadow Voices (Abby)
- The Last Days of Summer (Kathy B.)
- Midnight Dance (Arielle)
- Celtic Splendor (Mike T.)
- Splendor of Ireland (Mike T.)
- Gypsy Battle Jig (Harold)
- Wind in the Willow (Nancy)
- Solana’s Song (George Hake)
- Enchanted Rhapsody (Brenda Hancock)
- Walking through the storm (Nancy B.)
- Celtic Wind (Tom A.)
- Danube Express (Randy Dallmefe or Dallmefa?)
- Native Bonfire (Linda Dallmefe of Dallmefa?)
- Celtic Waltz (Henry)
- Irish Waltz (Henry)
- Sonnett for a Stranger’s Love (Michael Pahl)
- Shenandoah Spring (Michael Patton)
- The Moors of Ireland (Michael Benedict)
- The Wild West Gold Mine (Millard Rexrode)
- The Wild West Gold Find (Millard Rexrode)
- Battle for the World (Lauren)
- Stomp of the Drums (Katie)
- Siren of the Storm (Jane)
- The Cost of Freedom (Anthony Greel)
- Passion Rose (Bob Frey)
-Angels in Paradise (Helen W.)
- My Sweet Dream (Helen W.)
- Farewell Good Friend (Joan S.)
- Tennessee Cliffs of Monair (Jack M.)
- The Ballad of Seamus Mcloud (Jim)
- The Native’s are Restless Tonight (Raymond Kurtz)
- Seattle Rain (Dan)
- Tacoma Rain (Dan)
- The Voice of the Wind (Amy)
- Battle of the Goddesses (Olivia)
- Irish Wind Running Wild (Doug Etter)
- A Night with the Irish (Lana)
- Gaelic Love Storm (Erin)
- Yorkshire Fair (Eileen M.)
- Ride off to Battle! (Jackie)
- Gypsy Lore (Donna Dull Felton)
- American Civil Celtic (Lynn L.)
- Remember Me at York (Bill M.)
- Battle of York (Bill M.)
- Scottish Dance (Beth)
- A Fairy’s Dance (Susan)
- Shannon Go Bragh (Rev. William Welsh)
- Come Hither the Sounds of an Irish Lass (Barbara Ann Taaffe)
- Summer Breeze (Kay L.)
- Sounds of a Waterfall
- Waterfall
- The Mystery of Enchantment (Cliff D.)
- The Gothard Tribal (Janine)
- Butterfly’s Robe (Masumi Jenks)
- Call of the Wind (Robert Serra)
- Siren Song of the Sea (Kim Sorenson)
- Soul Release Dream (Bryan Jenks)
- Sea Storm (Claire)
- The Lightning Leaf (Sophia)
- True Talent (Ron)
- Horses of the Fall (Fall)
- Summer Faire (Jean)
- Mermaid Gypsy of the Sea (Cheri Hanay)
- Doublin Rain (Gary)
- Gothard Road (Ernest Currie)
- Gothism Rising (Ernest Currie)
- Celtic Festival (Hannah)
- A Blizzard Night Flight (Abby Iblings)
- Wind through the Mountains (Jean Kelley)
- Selkie Soul (Nancy Clark)
- Tempestuous Siren of the Sea (Nina Hipperson)
- Sea Sirens Three (Nina Hipperson)
- Battle of Wilgretsol, Wilsolgret, Gretsolwil, Gretwilsol, Solwilgret, or Solgretwil.
- County Fair Blues
- Gone Before
- Fairy’s Fury (Maryanne)
- Gothard’s Lullaby (Jesilnik)
- Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
- Sailor’s Mistress (Dennis)
- Gothic Pride (George and Chichi Trout)
- Gothard Pride (George and Chichi Trout)
- In Celebration of Bluey’s Life (Jordy and Terry Albert)
- The River Orr (Bill A Miller, he wrote lyrics)
- Gothard Jig
- The Legend of Dirty Red (Mark)
- Dirty Red (Mark)
- Prelude to a Revelation (Michelle Andres)
- The Quickening (Michelle Andres)
- Journey through the Forest
- Pondering Indian
- Storm Maiden
- Thunder Mountain
- Battle of Love
- Battle for Love
- Wandering
- Secret Kelts
- Unnamed Battle
- The Irish Kelt
- Three Battles
- Clarity
- Thundering Serenade (Arletta Clarke)
- Water Dreams
- The Journey
- Astoria; Diverse and Beautiful
- Sirens
- Rocky Road of Love (Kathryn Burr)
- Westerly Waves (Jane M. Geogeson)
- Journey back from Lisdoonvarna
- Journey to *blank*
- New Love (Josce Peper)
- Speechless (Josce Peper)
- Celtic Blood (Tim Wilker)
- Just for Astoria (Sherry Wright)
- A Special Place (Sherry Wright)
- Celebration (Sherry Wright)
- The Gypsy Angel (Barbara Kraler) – I Dream of My Ride to Heaven (Brandt Apiki)
- Changing Changes
- Leprechaun King
- Awakening the Sun
- Sun Shining Down

There you have it!! Now you know everything that we know. This has been so fantastic to have everyone suggest names- you all are very creative. 

Even though we can only pick one name from the list for THIS song, there are a lot of great names here that are just asking for songs to go along with them… so your name could also be included on the CD or have a song written about it! We shall see.

Greta
www.gothardsisters.com 

We had a lovely Valentine’s day, thank you to everyone who wished us a happy holiday. Although we spent all of “actual” Valentine’s day practicing (sounds really bad but it was actually really fun), we had a great concert on Sunday that was a perfect way to celebrate Valentine’s day.

We performed in Astoria, which is a beautiful little town in the Northwestern tip of Oregon that we have driven through but never really gotten to stick around in for very long. We didn’t get to do much sightseeing but we DID drive up to see the Astoria tower: 

Later on, we played the main event, a concert with Kim Angelis, the gypsy violinist who gave us so many hours of joyful dancing in the living room as kids to her recordings. It was actually the first time we’d ever met her in person, and she is such a lovely person! The audience was also wonderful – thank you so much for your warm welcome to Astoria!! We had a great time.

Here are some pictures of before and after the show, as well as some video of Greta and Kim playing a duet: 

Now we’re home and working hard at “Gothard Sisters Band Camp” where we are coming up with new numbers and doing all kinds of cool hard work stuff. There will be more on that later.

See ya ’till then!
:-)
Greta 

So last weekend we took a long drive out to Montana (30 hours roundtrip) to perform for 12 minutes at the Montana Performing Arts Consortium. Basically, it is a chance to meet the people who run events and concert series in MT so we can possibly come out there and perform in the future!

So we did our 12 minute showcase (complete with a counter/timer sitting on the front of the stage, counting the minutes and seconds to make sure we didn’t go a second over 12 minutes – yikes!) and then went to the Artists’ Jam that evening. All the performers got together and played music or tried to collaborate and it was quite fun. In between the big blues jams we got up and did this little number: 

The other interesting thing about the trip was the hotel we stayed at. It was in the middle of Great Falls and the lounge was called the “Sip n’ Dip.” The whole attraction of the place was based on the fact that this lounge had MERMAIDS. Real mermaids. Heehee! Basically, the lounge was set up so there was a giant window behind the bar, looking into the bottom of the hotel pool. Then at 9:00 every night the mermaids would appear and swim around outside the window.
Only thing was, it didn’t really make me want to go swimming in the hotel pool if people were going to be watching from the lounge. lol.

Anyway, we packed up and headed out on Sunday morning to try and get out of MT and back home to the coast before the giant storm hit, but before we left we noticed that our picture was on the cover of the arts section in the Great Falls tribune, check it out: 

All in all a great weekend- the whole year is shaping up to be quite the adventure.