Kate McGarrigle, the singer-songwriter who won over audiences around the world with her sister Anna, will be honoured in a cozy little square steps from her Montreal home, in Outrement today.
Place Kate McGarrigle is small but filled with the flowers that she loved, and a chair-sculpture by artist Robert Wilson.
It’s the first of a two-day memorial welcoming home to Montreal the Kate McGarrigle Tribute show. Starring her sisters’ Anna and Jane, and children Rufus and Martha Wainwright, the show was a success in London, England, in New York city and Toronto. Tomorrow night it will debut in Montreal with a new name and several francophone performers. “Cheminant ver ma ville” will feature singers Pierre Lapointe, Robert Charlebois, Fanny Bloom, and Marie-Michele Desrosiers and Michel Rivard from Beau Dommage.
All the proceeds from the show will go to the Kate McGarrigle Fund of the McGill University Health Centre Foundation for cancer care and research. Kate McGarrigle died in 2010 of clear-cell sarcoma at age 63.
This evening there will be a screening of Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle. It’s the feature documentary directed by Lian Lunson, of the May 2011 New York City concerts honoring Kate McGarrigle.
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