p2pnet news view | Music:- Kate McGarrigle, part of the Montreal sister music duo, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, has died from cancer the age of 63

She passed away at her Montreal home, surrounded by family and friends, says CJAD.

Says Britain’s Telegraph >>>

To many music listeners, she’s probably best known as the matriarch of the Wainwright clan. Married for some years to influential American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, she is the mother of popular contemporary singer-songwriters Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright.

Being head of that dynasty might be enough to earn her a place in popular music history, but Kate was a wonderful musician in her own right, recording 10 albums with her sister Anne McGariggle. The sisters had high, thin voices but they weaved around each other in such tight, flowing harmony that the effect was completely magical and bewitching.

It adds:

“Bi-lingual Canadians, their repertoire included traditional folk in English and French, and original songs of their own (which are striking enough to have been recorded by such artists as Linda Rondstadt, Maria Muldaur, Kirsty MacColl, Billy Bragg, Alison Moorer, Emmylou Harris, The Corrs, Annie Sophie Von Otter and Elvis Costello. And even her ex-husband, Loudon).

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CJAD – Kate McGarrigle succumbs to cancer, January 19, 2010
Telegraph – Kate McGarrigle, death of a matriarch, January 19, 2010

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