Kate mcGarrigle passed away December 21st, 2010, the same day as our beloved Jason.
She was kind of under the radar but active in the folk/roots music scene since the seventies. She was once married to singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and was the mother of singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright and singer/actress Martha Wainwright. Much of her recording works was done with her sister Anna McGarrigle.
In recent years she toured with Rufus and performed as recently on 12-9-09 at Royal Albert Hall in London. She died of metastacized colon cancer and was only sixty-three years of age.
Attached are a couple of clips. In the first she, playing the concertina, and Anna, along with Rufus and Martha perform Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with friends Mary Black (a well-know Irish folk singer) and the incomparable Emmy Lou Harris. This was probably quite a few years ago as Rufus appears to be in his very early twenties and he is now in his mid-thirties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrfLnlrquo
Here she accompanies and sings with her children Rufus and Martha, who has an "unusual" voice. This was December 9, 2009 barely five weeks before her passing. Rufus is tearful and it looks like sis has to take over for a while. This was her last performance and it seems certain to me that everyone involved knew it. I love the way her family seems to have rallied around her allowing her to keep doing what she loved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md9wbsCu88w
Here, on December 7, 2009 she accompanies Rufus who sings Over The Rainbow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEc-d0w7r_s
What can I say, the sun hasn't shone in two weeks and I'm getting mopey.
Dave
She was kind of under the radar but active in the folk/roots music scene since the seventies. She was once married to singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and was the mother of singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright and singer/actress Martha Wainwright. Much of her recording works was done with her sister Anna McGarrigle.
In recent years she toured with Rufus and performed as recently on 12-9-09 at Royal Albert Hall in London. She died of metastacized colon cancer and was only sixty-three years of age.
Attached are a couple of clips. In the first she, playing the concertina, and Anna, along with Rufus and Martha perform Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with friends Mary Black (a well-know Irish folk singer) and the incomparable Emmy Lou Harris. This was probably quite a few years ago as Rufus appears to be in his very early twenties and he is now in his mid-thirties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrfLnlrquo
Here she accompanies and sings with her children Rufus and Martha, who has an "unusual" voice. This was December 9, 2009 barely five weeks before her passing. Rufus is tearful and it looks like sis has to take over for a while. This was her last performance and it seems certain to me that everyone involved knew it. I love the way her family seems to have rallied around her allowing her to keep doing what she loved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md9wbsCu88w
Here, on December 7, 2009 she accompanies Rufus who sings Over The Rainbow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEc-d0w7r_s
What can I say, the sun hasn't shone in two weeks and I'm getting mopey.
Dave
