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The first thing you hear is a zig-zag fiddle taking flight, rushing, soaring on invisible wings, then, lyrical, lilting fairy voices — gentle and tender as a floating maple leaf on a crisp fall morning — lighting up the dark night of any soul.
Those lovely, lyrical, lilting fairies are none other than the famous Edmonds Gothard Sisters — Greta, Willow, and Solana. They’re talented multi-instrumentalists, vocalists, songwriters, and championship dancers, too, and they’ve been charming audiences for well over 10 years… ever since they were little girls dreaming of touching the stars.
Gothard Sisters Host the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast
As you know, we're big fans of Marc Gunn and his Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. For members of the independent Celtic music community, he has always been supportive of new musicians and albums from day one. So when he reached out to ask us to host an episode of his podcast and share some of our favorite bands and songs with his listeners - of course, we said yes!
Gothard Sisters on Thunder on the Plains Radio
Check out this fun interview we did while in Nebraska last month with Susan Ritta from Thunder on the Plains radio.
Gothard Sisters Reach No. 6 on the Billboard World Music Chart
“We didn’t set out intending to do an original album,” Greta Gothard said in a phone interview with The Herald while on the way to a tour stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “We had a bunch of traditional songs and cover songs we were thinking of doing, but we started out recording our original music, and it was so much fun that one day we were all like, ‘Hey, what if we tried doing an all-original album?’ “
The Gothard Sisters Put New Fire into Old Embers
suppose the theme could be interpreted as going on an adventure and then coming back home. A lot of these songs were written while on the road, so there’s a mixture of songs about traveling, wandering, sailing, adventuring, but then there are also songs about being homesick, missing home, and returning home safely.
The Gothard Sisters' New Christmas Album Brings Trio's Signature Celtic Twist to Old Favorites and New Originals
The Gothard Sisters are Greta, Willow, and Solana Gothard. I had a chance recently to catch up with them to chat about the album.
PS: Tell me about the new CD. Is there a theme?
GS: Our new album is called Falling Snow, and it is a full Christmas album. We came up with the name because as we were compiling the collection of songs for this album there ended up being a common theme, which was snow, snowy landscapes, falling snow, etc., in the winter time. The title actually comes from a line in “Still, Still, Still,” an Austrian carol …