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2 unusual facts about Kate and Anna McGarrigle


A. P. Carter

On her 2008 album All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris includes the song "How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower", co-written with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, about the relationship between A.P. and Sara, inspired by a documentary that the three of them saw on television.

Saint-Sauveur, Quebec

The town was the childhood home—from about 1946 to 1960—of Canadian musicians Kate and Anna McGarrigle.


Lily Lanken

She is currently a painter and a backing vocalist in her cousin Martha Wainwright's band, and has appeared on various Kate and Anna McGarrigle albums, including The McGarrigle Hour (1998), La vache qui pleure (2003) and The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (2005).

Lucy Wainwright Roche

Lucy is also the half-sister of singer-songwriters Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright (whose late mother Kate was half of the Canadian folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle).

Pierre Marchand

Pierre Marchand has also worked with many other singer-songwriters, including Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Ron Sexsmith, Leigh Nash, Stevie Nicks, Daniel Lanois, The Devlins, Greg Keelor, Patty Larkin and Lhasa de Sela.

Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den

Also featured are songs written by Wainwright's parents: "One Man Guy" (Loudon Wainwright III) originally appeared on I'm Alright (1985) and was recorded for Wainwright's second studio album, Poses (2001); "On My Way to Town" (Kate McGarrigle) is from Kate and Anna McGarrigle's album Love Over and Over (1982).

The Bells of Dublin

The album features guest performances by various artists, including Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Marianne Faithfull, Nanci Griffith, Rickie Lee Jones and the actor Burgess Meredith.


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