Kate McGarrigle

I Read The News Today... For April 14, 2011

Rihanna leads the nominees for this year's Billboard Music Awards, while Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber are also among those with ridiculous amounts of nominations. You're not alone if that makes you puke in your mouth a little. —Billboard LCD Soundsystem's final show earlier this month at New York City's Madison Square Garden will be...
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Kate McGarrigle's Funeral Being Held Next Monday

The funeral for late Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle will be held at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica next Monday (Feb. 1). Journalist Dane Lanken, McGarrigle's brother-in-law, says country singer Emmylou Harris should be in attendance, according to the Canadian Press. McGarrigle, who was also the mother of singer/songwriters Rufus...
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Kate McGarrigle

Ten Reasons Kate McGarrigle Was Cool

Canadian folk singer/songwriter Kate McGarrigle has died of cancer at age 63. McGarrigle lost her battle with a rare form of cancer, clear cell sarcoma, and passed away Monday (Jan. 18) night in Montreal after going into a coma on Saturday (Jan. 16). Rather than dwell on the sadness of this artist's passing, we here at CHARTattack prefer to...
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Kate McGarrigle

A Wainwright Family Update

If you've ever seen the Wainwrights on stage and wondered what kind of hilarity they'd get up to in the kitchen, you might want to watch Martha Stewart Living on Dec. 9. Rufus Wainwright and his sister Martha Wainwright will appear with Kate and Anna McGarrigle (their mother and aunt, respectively) to bake "ski biscuits" with Stewart...
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