Kate at the MMFA gala for Imagine aka The Ballad of John and Yoko

Photo by Slava Egorov
Kate attended the ’special’ gala for this show with her friend Slava Egorov. She wanted to thank Yoko in person for her family’s very generous donation to The Kate McGarrigle Fund/MUHC at the time of the Carnegie Christmas show in Dec 08.
There’s much ado about this exhibition which opens today and [...]

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Before Tomorrow/Le jour avant le lendemain

Shameless self-promotion.
While sis and I wait for the new Kate & Anna McGarrigle website to be up and running (end of next week) I’m including a link to a CBC review of the Canadian feature Before Tomorrow which opens today in Canadian theatres and in which we have some songs. I confess that when [...]

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Happy Birthday Campbie!

Many happy returns of the day to the CEO of GCTransport from Gardencourt courtiers and courtisanes. Here he is flanked by a certain ‘musician/philosopher’ and a new to the airwaves ‘talk-show host’ at the fabulous Wainwright-Albetta wedding. Those were the days, my friend. Photo by Meg Griffin.

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Happy Birthday Anna Catherine!

Anna Cat was barely two years old when her parents travelled from their home in what was to become Silicone Valley CA to visit the old folks at home in the quaint city of Montreal with its exploding mailboxes and kidnapped politicians. Back then Dane and I got to keep little A for a [...]

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Kate, Rufus, Renée and Elvis C. sing ‘In the Pines’ with Bill Frissel

What on the surface seems an unlikely marriage of people and song reveals an extraordinary bunch of good ol’ boys ‘n girls just-a hootin and a-hollerin. Back in the late 80s when Kate was searching for evidence of a modern French presence in the American Midwest she collected this version of the song which she [...]

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