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Kate McGarrigle

September 2022

  • Loudon Wainwright III in New York.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I was promiscuous – that’s murder on marriage’: Loudon Wainwright III on sex addiction, booze and family feuds

    The singer-songwriter fought with his father, fell out with children Rufus and Martha and drove away his first wife before the honeymoon was even over. At 76, has he finally made some kind of peace with the world?

March 2022

  • Martha Wainwright

    Martha Wainwright: ‘Forget rock excess, life on the road was a juggling act for me’

    The Canadian-American singer-songwriter on why she needed to tell a different story in her candid autobiography

October 2021

  • Rufus and Martha Wainwright

    Flashback
    Rufus and Martha Wainwright: ‘When Mum died, we sewed ourselves together again’

    The famous musical siblings revisit their fractious childhood relationship and recreate an old photograph

June 2021

  • Pete Long with his partner, Caroline, in 1989

    Other lives
    Pete Long obituary

    Other lives: Maths teacher who became an authority on musicians including Neil Young and Jackson Browne

December 2019

  • Martha Wainwright and Rufus Wainwright at A Not So Silent Night

    Rufus and Martha Wainwright review – quirky, magnificent festive blowout

    Chrissie Hynde, Neil Tennant and Sophie Ellis-Bextor joyously topped up the Wainwright siblings’ big-hearted Christmas fundraiser, A Not So Silent Night

April 2018

  • Route 66 sign in 2009.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about road trips

    A reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the list

April 2016

  • Rufus Wainwright

    My family values
    Rufus Wainwright: my family values

    The singer-songwriter talks about his relationship with his father, Loudon Wainwright III, having a child with Leonard Cohen’s daughter and his marriage to Jörn

March 2016

  • Sisters Kate (right) and Anna McGarrigle in a photo dated circa 1975. Kate is the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about brothers and sisters results

    RR regular John Hindle has picked this week’s playlist, which you can read about and listen to here as we continue our slightly tweaked format

June 2013

  • Various: Sing Me The Songs: Celebrating the Work of Kate McGarrigle – review

    This collection of recordings from a series concerts in tribute to Kate McGarrigle is a glorious thing, writes Robin Denselow

October 2012

  • Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama – review

    Martha Wainwright contemplates motherhood on her third album but fails to match the power of her older songs, writes Kitty Empire

May 2012

  • Singer and Poet Patti Smith

    Patti Smith: how she rocks our world

    Patti Smith is rock royalty, and a new album and book from the 'godmother of punk' make 2012 a jubilee year. Now 65, her influence shows no sign of waning. We spoke to musicians she has inspired, from Martha Wainwright to Johnny Marr

April 2011

  • Emmylou Harris: Hard Bargain – review

    Emmylou Harris's 21st solo album finds the country singer taking stock, writes Gareth Grundy

December 2010

  • Kate McGarrigle

    Observer New Review: obituaries of 2010
    The Kate McGarrigle I knew, by British singer-songwriter Linda Thompson

    The British singer-songwriter recalls the extraordinary musical talent and wit of her friend, the Canadian musician Kate McGarrigle, who died of cancer on 18 January, aged 63.

June 2010

  • A Celebration Of Kate McGarrigle At The Royal Festival Hall

    A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle

    Royal Festival Hall, London
    This was a poignant celebration and memorial for the life of a family friend, writes Robin Denselow

April 2010

  • Kate McGarrigle

    Meltdown festival to pay tribute folk singer Kate McGarrigle

    Rufus and Martha Wainwright to sing in a tribute concert for their mother as part of festival curated by Richard Thompson

February 2010

  • Rufus Wainwright: 'I was looking right into her face when my mother died'

    On the eve of a new album and the London debut of his opera, Prima Donna, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright talks to Tim Adams about fatherhood, the first 'gay sonnet' and his grief at the death of his mother, Kate McGarrigle, last month

January 2010

  • Kate McGarrigle

    Music blog
    Kate McGarrigle remembered

    Laura Barton: The Canadian folk singer and Wainwright family matriarch, who died this week, maintained a 40-year career with songs rooted in the most intimate worlds

  • Kate McGarrigle

    Kate McGarrigle obituary

    Folk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making family
  • Rufus Wainwright and his mother Kate McGarrigle

    Folk singer Kate McGarrigle dies

    The Canadian musician and Wainwright family matriarch has died after losing her battle with cancer, aged 63

July 2009

  • Arts diary
    Rufus Wainwright duets with mum Kate McGarrigle in Manchester

    Rufus Wainwright called on the help of a very special guest at his intimate gig on Sunday, writes Charlotte Higgins
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