Gordy & Marie are taking a well-earned break!  They have a few appearences scheduled, and will consider adding other special events...but they are officially on hiatus beginning January 2010!  Stay in touch and keep checking for updates!

It's hard to believe, but our third single from our latest album, "Shelter" is coming out today! It is the first track on the CD called, "Ode #40 - Sing Allelu", and is a very special, unique piece of music history. This song comes to us from the oldest known Christian songbook that has ever been discovered! Historians mostly agree it was written around 100AD which means that the first century church used this song (along with 41 others) as their worship music when they gathered together in fellowship! No one knows who wrote these odes, but they were likely the Chris Tomlin and Michael W. Smith of the day!

We are blessed to be able to bring this piece of ancient worship to today's believers. In a very real way, when we sing this simple and beautiful song together in praise, we are building a bridge between us and the first believers - our brothers and sisters in Christ who paved the way through much persecution in order to share the Good News and ensure that it would spread thoughout the ages...

Enjoy!

Hi All!

Sorry we've been a bit "quiet"...when you get busy with concerts and life, you stop checking in with people like you should! But all is well with us, and our second single, "King Of Heaven" is playing all over the country! There are too many stations to list, but we promise to get a complete list up by the end of the month! The single is for sale on Itunes, or you can just purchase the entire CD from our website.

We want to thank everyone for their support during this tough time for our country. We have never seen more radical changes in our lifetime, and we are grateful for all the blessings in our lives despite the gloom and doom of the economy and the naysayers who flood our lives with the news of the day. We know who is really in charge...

Thanks to the following stations for playing "King Of Heaven" in the first week of this release:
KCRN - San Angelo, TX
WHCB - Johnson City, TN
WOLC - Salisbury, MD
KCFB - St. Cloud, MN
WLJN - Traverse City, MI
KDKR - Ft. Worth, TX
WFST - Caribou, ME
WLIH - Wellsboro, PA
WDAC - Lancaster, PA

Gordy & Marie's latest single officially releases on October 27, 2008.

Their second single off their new album, Shelter-Worship Through The Ages, is entitled "King Of Heaven" and hits radio stations across the country in time for the celebration of our Savior's birth! Watch for it and listen to clips on Itunes, CD Baby or on the music tab on this site...

Shelter-Worship Through The Ages officially releases with Marie & Gordy's premiere concert in the Philadelphia area! Keep an eye out for ordering information...

Thanks to the following stations for playing our new single, "Kneel"...

KHCS, Palm Springs, CA
KTLF, Colorado Springs, CO
KPOF, Westminster, CO
PILGRIM, Carson City, NV
KDKR, Ft. Worth, TX
WAFT, Valdosta, GA
WECC, St. Marys, GA
WBNH, Pekin, IL
WCSE, Uncasville, CT
WRVL, Lynchburg, VA
KCFB, St Cloud, MN
WRAF, Toccoa Fall, GA
KCWN, Pella IA
WNFR, Flint/Port Huron, MI
WDAC, Lancaster, PA
KURL, Billings, MT
KIJN, Farwell, TX
WELL, Dadeville, AL
WLBF, Montgomery, AL
WMVV, Griffin, GA
WGMA, Spindale, NC
KLUH, Poplar Bluff, MO
WDYD, Merrill, WI
WFST, Caribou, ME
WCRH, Williamsport, MD
WHCB, Johnson City, TN

We'd like to thank the following stations for playing our first single, "Kneel"...

WCRH in Williamsport, MD
WHCB in Johnson City, TN

and our own
WDAC in Lancaster, PA

Many blessings to all these radio ministries!

Our first single entitled "Kneel" was released today to Christian stations across the country. It is from our new album - Shelter, Worship Through The Ages - which officially releases in the fall. We want to thank all those stations who are playing our song, and we are very humbled to be a part of sharing God's message...

There is a little celebrating going on way out here in Elizabethtown, PA...we thought we'd share!

After almost 17 months of blood, sweat and tears (and writing checks) today we are giving final approval to the DESIGN and MASTER of our new CD, "Shelter - Worship Through The Ages"! It has been a long road with many twists and turns, and we intend to take a breath as soon as it hits us that we've finished and have nothing else to do.

Ah, but now to promotions! We are blessed that we have Gina Adams on board to help with this, and September, October and November will see premiere concerts throughout the United States (more on that later). We hope and pray that this latest labor of love will be a blessing and comfort to all who hear it.

We'd like to formally welcome Gina Adams of the Adams Group in Nashville, TN to our ministry team! She is our new, dynamic PR guru who is getting the word out about what Gordy & I are doing. Please visit her website and give her lots of grief from us! Thanks Gina! http://christianpublicityservices.com/dramatic_rose/dramatic_rose/index.html

We added our new song, Ode #40 (Sing Allelu) to the Fan Favs chart! Go check it out! It's under Inspirational...

This is the song that we told you about: from the oldest known Christian songbook, written around 100AD. Imagine the earliest Christians sitting around singing this together...it is such a privilege to bring it to you now, as we worship as they might have. Close your eyes and just imagine their voices reaching toward heaven in praise...

For all of those who have asked (and for those who haven't!) the final mix of our new CD, "Shelter - Worship Through The Ages" is being completed today.  It has been a long, very long, journey with many ups and downs, but we are certain that God has been in charge and has had much to show us through this process.  We are humbled to be able to offer this work to Him for His glory!


The final piece of this puzzle came together when we found an incredible song that comes from the oldest known Christian songbook in history.  It was found around the region of Antioch, many scholars peg it as written around 100 ad, and the work consists of 42 odes.  If you can imagine the earliest of believers - perhaps people who heard Paul speak or maybe even John - sitting around singing these songs of worship to the Lord!  It is mind-boggling and a true privilege to sing one of them on this album and give it to you.  In concert we will teach you this song and all of us will sing the chorus together.  Maybe it will sound something like it did all those years ago.  These wonderful works did not come with written music, of course - only text.  The music for this was written by John Andrew Schreiner, and is a beautiful representation of what the early believers might have sung.  The words are adapted from the original Syriac. 


All of this to say that the album, which has finally come together, will have worship music represented over thousands of years - some inspired by the psalms, some from the traditional hymnal and some from the most contemporary worship music of today.  The ode brings them all together from the beginning of the Christian church and reminds us what a joy it is to worship the Lord...Sing Allelu!

Hi All! Sorry, once again, it has been a while since we've updated everyone! We have been working hard on Album #4 - "Shelter" - and time just goes so quickly.

We are in the studio now putting down the final lead vocals on the album. Bit by bit this project is coming together. We have fabulous musicians who have helped on this, and we are excited to hear what it will be like when it all comes together.

For those of you who know us, this album will not be typical of what we have done before. We have spent a great deal of time working on songs that are more "contemporary" or somewhat "pop" in order to expand our repertoire and our audience. This album will have 10 songs, and 5 of them will be this new style. The other 5 will be a little more typical of Gordy & Marie - a couple of traditional sounds, one country-esque, and Marie's torch song style.

I, Marie, must say that studying to sing pop stylings has been extremely challenging. I've spent half a year getting the style into my ear and into my mouth, and what's come out is certainly a departure from the norm for me. I am not a pop singer, to be sure, and I don't ever intend to become one, but I do believe that as a vocalist, I must be as true to the style of music as possible. For example, it would be no more right for me to use a country twang on an aria than it would to sing opera on a contemporary worship song. My goal has been to be true to each song's style with the voice that God has given me, all without losing "Marie". We'll see how this translates. What is fun about a venture like this is that Gordy & I are discovering new facets of our music which we can present in concert and which might touch some people in ways that our other music may not.

Music is powerful. It has the ability to change a person's heart. There are so many different styles of music on this planet, and not one style touches all people. This is why we must always have different styles out there - to reach into the heart of a person who otherwise might not hear. It is our hope that the music we present in Shelter will serve to add to the number of hearts who hear God's voice...

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We had a wonderful time at the CCCA Convention in San Diego a few weeks ago and were very blessed to be a part of their week. We have new pictures sprinkled throughout the website from our concert on the opening evening, including this one above, so take a look around!

Many of you have been asking about our Nashville sessions and wonder why there isn't any information about it yet. Never fear! We did go to Nashville and recorded about 60% of the album. We will record the rest in January and are on track for our spring release.

The album is titled "Shelter" and is an original written by Gordy, sung by Marie. The album will have several Matt Goss originals, as well, which will help us dip our toes into the christian pop world a bit, but we will still sprinkle the album with our signature unique takes on a few old hymns. And for those of you who have seen us live in concert, yes, Gordy will finally be recording the ever-popular "For The Love Of My Life" on this album! So many of you have requested this song, and we are thrilled to be able to bring it to you!

We took some neat pictures during the studio time in Nashville, so keep an eye out on the website for those shots to appear. We also took new promo shots for a new informational brochure about our concert ministry, and we'll be sharing those photos soon too.

The Christmas season will be starting before we know it - has already begun for us since we rehearse well in advance - and we want to wish you and yours a most blessed season. We love to hear from you, so please keep writing. Your encouragement is greatly appreciated and comforts us tremedously as we continue headlong into this music ministry. We don't know what God has in store for us, but He is preparing us each day for whatever might come.

Hi All! Well, as you can see by our schedule, we have been extremely busy this summer and were able to take a short breather in August. Now the fall and winter months begin, and we will be busier than ever. First, we officially changed our company name to Rock Dove Ministries although our label is still Rock Dove Records.

Speaking of label, we are working on our fourth album and have been working on her for sometime now. We are excited to be recording in Nashville in less than two weeks at Wildwood Studios - scene to many a famous record or two - with our arranger Phillip Keveren! He's one of the greats in this industry, and we are most blessed to have him on board.

Album #4 will be unlike any you have heard from us with originals and an even bigger variety of songs stylistically, and we are looking toward a premiere in the spring of '08. More information about that to come...

We are proud to introduce a new member of the Barlow Martin family....Geopardy! (Check out our "photos" link to see pics of her.) She comes from a long and storied line of Thoroughbreds and Warmbloods and is the great-great-great-great (you get the picture) grand daughter of War Admiral, and arguably the most famous racer in the world, Man Of War. Her Papa's side, however, is Hanoverian (Graf Goetz - http://www.rougemontsporthorses.com/grafgotz.html - an equally famous dressage horse) so she isn't as high-strung as most thoroughbreds, although she is definitely a complicated handful! She is also the promise of a childhood dream fulfilled. Welcome to our family, Geopardy...you are most loved.

PRESS RELEASE: After the release of the artists’ first album, Dancer To The Drum, in December of 2004, requests for live appearances poured in. 2005 saw Marie and Gordy very busy with concert dates totaling no less than forty, and from these came the demand for a second album and then a third. The artists went back into the studio in January of 2006 to record their second CD - How Can I Keep From Singing - which is an album of hymns many of which can be heard in their live performances. Rock Dove Records released this CD in spring of 2006, and it is available here on the artists’ website, on CD Baby and Christian Light Bookstores among others. You can also access the artists’ schedule by clicking on the calendar tab to the left if you wish to attend any of the upcoming engagements. The artists' third album, Years - Memories of Christmas, was released with rave revues in December of 2006. The fall of 2008 saw the release of the artists' fourth album - Shelter, Worship Through The Ages - with critical acclaim in such publications as "Worship Leader Magazine" and songs like "Kneel" and "King of Heaven" receiving extensive radio play on stations all across the country. Marie's third single, "Ode #40 (Sing Allelu)" releases in February, 2009. All of the albums are NOT SOLD IN STORES, so do not hesitate to secure your copy!

Well, Rock Dove Records couldn't keep it a secret any longer...Gordy & Marie's new album (that's right - ANOTHER new album!!) is about to hit the shelves, and the buzz has already begun! Their third album is the much-anticipated Christmas album which shall prove to be the artists' finest work to date. Pre-sale orders will be offered in the coming days so that fans might obtain this album in time for Christmas, and discounts will be given for multiple orders. More information to come...

Introducing Marie & Gordy's latest CD: How Can I Keep From Singing - Hymns...

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! The new CD incorporates old hymns with new arrangements for a very special musical experience. Pick a quiet morning over coffee or block out a noisy world while driving - this CD will bring you into the presence of our Lord...