The Gothard Sisters are some sisters in the northwestern U.S. who have been making Celtic music together since they were little girls.  They have made several albums, and regularly tour around the U.S. performing their music in concert halls and festivals.

This week, the Gothard Sisters have a Stay-At-Home St. Pat's Show you can watch from home!  It went live at the stroke of midnight in Pacific Time on St. Patrick's Day and it sounds like they will take it down after a week.  You can watch it for free on YouTube and then decide how much you want to pay them, or pay nothing at all.

They mostly played songs from their albums, but they also did some other songs and had some fun live shenanigans.  The audio quality could use some work, but I really appreciated the fact that they had multiple cameras and they edited the video from them together.

https://www.gothardsisters.com/stay-at-home-st-pat-s-show

I saw The Fitzgeralds again at the same venue on 2020-03-15.  This was a Sunday night show and it was the final show out of 5 that they did in Laughlin this year.  It was so much fun and I'm glad I went again, for the second year in a row!

The concert this year had a different set list, but many of the songs were the same as last year.  I didn't keep careful notes.  I liked a song they played called "Jutland" and the two songs that came after it.  During the show, they said Julie has turned 30 and she is the oldest sibling, and so they are worried about how long her knees can do step-dancing, but I'm not sure how serious that all was.  They did a swing song (It's All Your Fault) and Tom pointed out there there was a little bit of room in the aisles for swing dancing, so that might be fun for me to do next time if I bring a follow.

After the show, I bought Julie Fitzgerald's instructional DVD on step-dancing, and I had a great time talking to the family.   I asked most of them how they were doing.  Pamela asked me how my year was and said I might like "Cherish the Ladies", another band.  Tom remembered me from last year and wanted to shake my hand.  Julie remembered seeing me in the front row and said "eh" at the end of a question to me in that very stereotypical Canadian way.

Kerry was very friendly, perhaps because I had just recently purchased her single Beauty and the Beatz for about $10 CAD.  She asked if I was a musician, and then later as I was leaving she encouraged me to bring my fiddle next year, saying that I'm a fiddler deep down (even though I've never even tried to play one).  I'd like to think she likes my spirit and wants to collaborate with me on some level... maybe if I learn to play fiddle a little bit by next year, we could have a jam or she could give me a lesson or something.

Don Celebrity Theatre has been remodeled nicely; the seats and tables are arranged better now so that all the seats are actually facing the stage.

You're right, Penny!  ( https://www.instagram.com/p/B89o6uhB2--/ )

Here are the versions I've collected if anyone wants them.  I've been careful to neither scale the image up nor down from what I found originally on the web.  I forget where I got these, probably from various venue websites though.

This morning, the new lineup (Chloë Agnew, Mairéad Carlin, Megan Walsh, Tara McNeill) gave an interview and also performed "Danny Boy" on a morning TV show called "Great Day Live" by WTSP-TV in the Tampa, Florida area.  This is the first recording that I've seen with the new lineup! 

This page has both videos and a little text:

https://www.wtsp.com/article/entertainment/television/great-day-tb/celtic-woman-celebration-comes-to-tampa-bay/67-66e1b622-bedc-444a-97a3-db23d5900b67

The interview was mainly about each girl's experience auditioning for the show.

This page just has the interview:

https://www.wtsp.com/video/entertainment/television/great-day-tb/celtic-woman-lakeland-music/67-93515488-5c0a-4fd0-bc2f-125ac2ded023

This page just has the song:

https://www.wtsp.com/video/entertainment/television/great-day-tb/celtic-woman-returns-to-tampa-bay-15th-anniversary-tour/67-a8a275a9-9235-4414-861f-6e9624c1396d

Neat!  Paul Byrom is on a tour and I have a ticket to see him next month in Las Vegas.

Jack1949:  They've mentioned the names of at least 6 songs in a press release.  Check out my first post in this thread entitled "Spoilers about the Celebration Tour":

http://www.celticwomanforum.net/index.php?topic=1142.0

--David

Yeah, maybe Éabha leaving was a surprise to the Celtic Woman team.  I made my first post in this thread on October 11th, and it linked to a page on kingcenter.com with text and a picture that both indicated that Éabha would be part of the Celebration tour.  Those things probably came directly from Celtic Woman, and you'd think they would have done things differently if they knew Éabha was leaving.  I don't think they want to purposely give inaccurate information to the venues and fans.

I love hearing gossip so I wish I knew exactly who knew what and when, and whether any contracts were broken, but we'll probably never really know.