"on January 18, 2010, aged 63 at her home in Montreal, Quebec. Her sister Anna wrote on their website: She made her last public appearance, with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, just six weeks before her death. The show raised $55,000 for the Kate McGarrigle Fund. On June 12, 2010, the Meltdown Festival staged a tribute concert in her honour, organised by Richard Thompson. The concert included performances by her daughter Martha Wainwright, son Rufus Wainwright, sister Anna McGarrigle, ex-husband Loudon Wainwright III, Neil Tennant, Nick Cave, Emmylou Harris, Richard and Linda Thompson, and"
"Kate McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle, CM (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Irish pianist Francis McGarrigle and French Canadian mother Gabrielle Latrémouille, the three McGarrigle sisters (Jane, Anna, and Kate, the youngest) grew up in the village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, north of Montreal. Their family was a musical one on both sides, often gathering"
"was curated by Joe Boyd and filmed by Lian Lunson. """" was released in June 2013; """" served as the film's soundtrack. Kate McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle, CM (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Irish pianist Francis McGarrigle and French Canadian mother Gabrielle Latrémouille, the three McGarrigle sisters (Jane, Anna, and Kate, the"
"Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010. In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to 1967 they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four. They continued to write, record and perform music"
"Anna McGarrigle Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who recorded and performed with her sister, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010. Anna McGarrigle studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal (1964-1968). In the 1960s, Montreal natives Kate and Anna McGarrigle established themselves in Montreal's burgeoning folk scene while they attended school. From 1963 to 1967, they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four. The sisters wrote, recorded and performed music into the twenty-first century with assorted accompanying musicians, including Chaim Tannenbaum"
"The McGarrigle Christmas Hour The McGarrigle Christmas Hour is the tenth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 2005. A sequel to their 1998 album ""The McGarrigle Hour"", the album features a program of Christmas music recorded by the McGarrigles, their family and a number of friends and collaborators. It was also the last album to be released by the duo before Kate's death in 2010. Performers on the album include Kate's son and daughter Rufus and Martha, Anna's husband Dane Lanken and their children Lily and Sylvan, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane, as well as Emmylou Harris,"
"received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 2004. On November 22, 2006, they received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006 SOCAN Awards in Toronto. Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010. In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to"
"Jane McGarrigle Jane McGarrigle is a Canadian songwriter, musician and music publisher, known mainly for her work with her younger sisters, singers Kate & Anna McGarrigle. She is the co-author of a book about the three sisters' childhood and musical experiences. McGarrigle grew up in Montreal with her sisters, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. When McGarrigle's younger sisters formed a singer/songwriter duo, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Jane wrote and performed several songs with them. She produced their album ""Love Over and Over"". The song ""Love Is"", which she co-wrote, has been recorded by Nana Mouskouri, Emmylou Harris, and Renato Russo (who"
"aged 63, of a rare form of cancer. Anna McGarrigle is married to Canadian journalist and author Dane Lanken. The couple have two children, Lily Lanken and Sylvan Lanken, and live in North Glengarry, Ontario, just west of the Quebec border. Dane appeared as a vocalist on several of the sisters' albums and in 2007 wrote their career biography. Another sister, Jane McGarrigle, is a film and television composer who acted as business manager for Kate and Anna, and also wrote and performed several songs with the duo. They were appointed Members of the Order of Canada in 1993 and"
"and Joel Zifkin. McGarrigle married journalist Dane Lanken on August 25, 1977 in Hawkesbury, Ontario. She and Lanken have two children, Sylvan (b. 1977) and Lily (b. 1979). Kate and Anna's 1976 debut album ""Kate & Anna McGarrigle"" was chosen by ""Melody Maker"" as Best Record of the Year. Their albums ""Matapedia"" (1996) and ""The McGarrigle Hour"" (1998) won Juno Awards. In 1999 Kate and Anna received Women of Originality awards and in 2006 SOCAN Lifetime Achievement awards. In 1993 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Anna McGarrigle Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is"
"Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. She was raised in a musical family along with her older brother, Rufus Wainwright, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She speaks the two official languages in Canada, English and French. Wainwright released an independent cassette, ""Ground Floor"", in 1997. The following year, her song ""Year of the Dragon"" appeared on ""The McGarrigle Hour"", an album released by Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Shortly after this recording, Martha began singing backup"
"McGarrigle sisters, most of them in French. At some stage, he also became a farmer in Dunham, Quebec, according to the sleeve notes of the album ""The McGarrigle Hour"". Tatartcheff has also uploaded some videos: Philippe Tatartcheff Philippe Tatartcheff (born in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Canadian poet and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist who wrote French language songs recorded by folk duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Tatartcheff's family was originally from the Swiss Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel and Fribourg. After moving to Montreal in the early 1950s, they eventually settled in Timmins, Ontario, where his father,"
"Harris, Norah Jones, Antony and Teddy Thompson. The compilation album """" serves as the film's soundtrack. Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle is a 2012 documentary film directed by Lian Lunson. It follows a memorial concert on May 12, 2011 at Town Hall in New York City had been made to pay tribute to musician Kate McGarrigle, who died from sarcoma at the age of 63 in 2010. The concert was headlined by Kate's children Martha and Rufus"
"Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle is a 2012 documentary film directed by Lian Lunson. It follows a memorial concert on May 12, 2011 at Town Hall in New York City had been made to pay tribute to musician Kate McGarrigle, who died from sarcoma at the age of 63 in 2010. The concert was headlined by Kate's children Martha and Rufus Wainwright, while also featuring her sisters Jane and Anna McGarrigle, comedian Jimmy Fallon, and musicians Emmylou"
"Driver's Waltz"" grew famous as the soundtrack for a 1979 animated film directed by John Weldon at Canada's National Film Board. They provided backing vocals on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds's 2001 album ""No More Shall We Part"". Anna and Kate McGarrigle were born in Montreal of mixed Irish- and French-Canadian background. They grew up in the northern suburb of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, where they learned piano from village nuns. Kate McGarrigle was married in 1971 to singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. Their children are Rufus and his sister Martha, both singers. The two divorced in 1976. Kate McGarrigle died in 2010,"
"The McGarrigle Hour The McGarrigle Hour is the eighth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1998. The album was recorded at a family gathering, including Kate's former husband Loudon Wainwright III, their son and daughter Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, Anna's husband Dane Lanken, their son and daughter Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane McGarrigle. Several of the McGarrigle sisters' friends and collaborators, including Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Chaim Tannenbaum, Joel Zifkin and Philippe Tatartcheff, also appear on the album. The combo perform a mix of traditional folk tunes, pop standards and original"
"albums ""Matapedia"" (1996) and ""The McGarrigle Hour"" (1998) won Juno Awards. In 1999 Kate and Anna received Women of Originality awards. In 1993 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2006 Kate and Anna McGarrigle were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards. McGarrigle was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and established the Kate McGarrigle Fund at the McGill University Health Centre, which she set up in 2008 to raise awareness of sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects connective tissue such as bone, muscle, nerves and cartilage. She died of clear-cell sarcoma"
"Beaux-Arts de Montréal (now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal) in Montreal; Kate studied engineering at McGill University. It was at this time that they began writing songs. Although she sang mostly in English, according to Juan Rodriguez, she and Anna ""put Québécois folk music...on the global music map in 1980 with ""Complainte pour Ste. Cathérine"", ""Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse"" (commonly known as the ""French Record"") and 2003's ""La vache qui pleure""."" The McGarrigle sisters' life has been chronicled in Dane Lanken's ""Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Songs and Stories"". Place Kate-McGarrigle was inaugurated on August 7,"
"which caused her death at the age of 53 of lymphatic cancer on October 10, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Catherine McKinnon Catherine McKinnon (born May 14, 1944) is a Canadian actress and folk/pop singer. McKinnon began as a child performer, making her debut radio broadcast at age eight and her television appearance at age 12. She subsequently studied music at Mount St. Vincent College in Halifax. In the 1960s she was a regular on CBC radio and television, including ""Singalong Jubilee"". McKinnon's first and biggest selling album, ""Voice of an Angel"", was a collection of folk material, but she"
"Philippe Tatartcheff Philippe Tatartcheff (born in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Canadian poet and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist who wrote French language songs recorded by folk duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Tatartcheff's family was originally from the Swiss Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel and Fribourg. After moving to Montreal in the early 1950s, they eventually settled in Timmins, Ontario, where his father, Dr. Michael Tatartcheff, was a physician and surgeon, and the town doctor. His grandfather, Dr. Assen Tatartcheff, was a member of the Macedonian Liberation Front IMRE. Tatartcheff attended a French ""collège classique"" in Timmins, then"
"recently on the Board of the Songwriters Association of Canada. McGarrigle is also a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). In 2013, she was part of a SOCAN representative group for a streamed panel, ""Can the Music Industry be Saved?"" With her sister Anna, she co-authored ""Mountain City Girls"", a family memoir published in 2015 by Random House Canada. The book cantains stories about the childhood and musical careers of the three sisters. Jane McGarrigle Jane McGarrigle is a Canadian songwriter, musician and music publisher, known mainly for her work with her younger"
"2013 in Montreal's Outremont borough. It contains a sculpture by Robert Wilson in the form of a double chair. McGarrigle - a Montreal native - lived nearby before her death. Her son, Rufus, says he discussed with Kate the offer of his childhood friend, Lorca Cohen, for Rufus to sire her child. He says that Kate strongly encouraged him to accept Cohen's offer, and that he regrets she didn't live long enough to see his daughter Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen's birth. Kate and Anna's 1976 self-titled debut album was chosen by ""Melody Maker"" as Best Record of the Year. Their"
"it out yourself first."" ODDiTTiES (McGarrigle album) ODDiTTiES is a compilation album released by Querbeservice in late 2010. It features unreleased versions of songs that Kate & Anna McGarrigle had recorded on analogue tapes for various projects between 1973 and 1990. It was first released in Canada on December 7, 2010, and in the UK and Europe on April 11, 2011. The album includes the sisters' renditions of four songs written by Stephen Foster, two songs by Wade Hemsworth, one song by The Balfa Brothers, one traditional French song, one song that Kate McGarrigle wrote for her daughter Martha Wainwright,"
"ODDiTTiES (McGarrigle album) ODDiTTiES is a compilation album released by Querbeservice in late 2010. It features unreleased versions of songs that Kate & Anna McGarrigle had recorded on analogue tapes for various projects between 1973 and 1990. It was first released in Canada on December 7, 2010, and in the UK and Europe on April 11, 2011. The album includes the sisters' renditions of four songs written by Stephen Foster, two songs by Wade Hemsworth, one song by The Balfa Brothers, one traditional French song, one song that Kate McGarrigle wrote for her daughter Martha Wainwright, and three songs that"
"MacFarlane is married to animator Spencer Laudiero. They have two daughters, Bella Francesca Laudiero and Perrin Elizabeth Laudiero. On July 16, 2010, MacFarlane's mother, Ann Perry Sager, died after a long battle with cancer. Her death was reported by Larry King on his show ""Larry King Live"", who acknowledged a conversation he had with her during an interview with her son in May 2010. MacFarlane has noted her similarities to Hayley Smith on ""American Dad!"", revealing, ""We both share the same political views"". Rachael MacFarlane Rachael Ann MacFarlane Laudiero (born March 21, 1976) is an American voice actress and singer"
"and Linda Thompson's version, and cited ""Travelling On for Jesus"" as the next best song on the album. The two-disc compilation album includes 34 tracks: 16 on the first disc, 18 on the second. All songs written by Kate McGarrigle, unless noted otherwise. Track listing adapted from Nonesuch Records. Credits adapted from Nonesuch Records. Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle is a two-disc compilation tribute album to Canadian singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, released by Nonesuch Records in June 2013. The album features select songs from four concerts"
"Catherine McGrath Catherine McGrath (born 9 June 1997) is an Irish country music singer and songwriter. Born in Rostrevor, Northern Ireland, McGrath learned guitar from her grandmother, who taught her to play and sing ""The Lion Sleeps Tonight"". McGrath's parents are both musicians and were frequent performers at the annual Fiddler's Green Music Festival held in County Down, Northern Ireland. McGrath honed her skills by observing her parents on-stage and by watching instructional videos online. McGrath took up songwriting, and in addition to performing her own material, she began making homemade videos of herself performing current pop hits, which she"
"cities across Canada, as well as smaller productions. In the summer of 2017 she appeared at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in a musical by Corey Payette. Elliott played the part of Rita in Payette's ""Children of God"" is a story in which children from an Oji-Cree family are taken to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The National Arts Centre marked her death and contributions to arts in Canada by lowering their flags for three days. Cathy Elliott Cathy Elliott (1957–2017) was a Mi'kmaq artist, musician, composer and playwright and member of the Sipekne'katik Mi'kmaq First Nation in"
"Lorraine Segato Lorraine Christine Segato (born June 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for and a principal songwriter of new wave and pop rock group The Parachute Club, with which she continues to perform. Segato initially became known in the late 1970s as the vocalist in the Toronto rock band Mama Quilla II. This band formed the core membership of The Parachute Club. The Parachute Club was particularly active in the 1980s, initially breaking up in 1989. Segato co-wrote nearly every song the band released, including all their singles. A"
"material by the participants. The album won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group at the Juno Awards of 1999. The McGarrigle Hour The McGarrigle Hour is the eighth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1998. The album was recorded at a family gathering, including Kate's former husband Loudon Wainwright III, their son and daughter Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, Anna's husband Dane Lanken, their son and daughter Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane McGarrigle. Several of the McGarrigle sisters' friends and collaborators, including Emmylou Harris, Linda"
"at the Juno Awards of 1997. Matapédia (album) Matapédia is the seventh album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1996. Kate's daughter Martha Wainwright appears on the album as a backing vocalist; she is also directly mentioned in the lyrics of the title track. The title ""Matapédia"" refers to the river in eastern Quebec which runs down to the town of Matapédia and then out into baie des Chaleurs. The rhythm of the river is supposed to be the inspiration for the loping beat of the album's title track. The album won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional"
"Matapédia (album) Matapédia is the seventh album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1996. Kate's daughter Martha Wainwright appears on the album as a backing vocalist; she is also directly mentioned in the lyrics of the title track. The title ""Matapédia"" refers to the river in eastern Quebec which runs down to the town of Matapédia and then out into baie des Chaleurs. The rhythm of the river is supposed to be the inspiration for the loping beat of the album's title track. The album won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Group"
"singer. She studied at the Royal College of Music from 1887 to 1889 and became a professional singer in 1895. She also collected folksongs, notably from James and Thomas Copper. She was one of the leading figures in setting up the Folk-Song Society and became its first secretary. In 1900 however, she became ill with cancer, of which she died at Stubbings near Maidenhead in 1904. Kate Lee (English singer) Kate Lee, born Catharine Anna Spooner, (9 March 1858 – 25 July 1904) was a singer and folksong collector. She was born in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Lucius and"