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Place Kate McGarrigle: here’s what it will look like (at Laurier and Querbes...
. The city of Montreal will honour the late folk-singer Kate McGarrigle (standing in the photo above, with sister Anna at the piano) by renaming a square after her. Click on the image below to see a...
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New music review: Come Home to Mama, Martha Wainwright (Maple Music)
Sometimes an album is so blunt and uncompromising in its personal content that you feel a bit like a voyeur just for hearing it. This can result in the uncomfortable listener filing it away for good,...
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Concert announcement: Kate McGarrigle’s family will celebrate her work at the...
An all-star cast – mostly from the same family – will gather at the Outremont Theatre Aug. 8 to remember Kate McGarrigle. The concert, titled Cheminant vers ma ville, will be one of the Montreal...
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Music as a Reflektor of history
MONTREAL — Music – Quebec: From Charlebois to Arcade Fire is a stroll through the social and political history of Quebec during the past half-century. The new exhibition at the McCord Museum, with its...
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Applause: Vanier College students collect winter coats for Sun Youth
The Vanier College Students Association has collected more than 60 winter coats in a drive to help the Sun Youth Organization. “All year long, Sun Youth Organization does tremendous work helping...
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Anna and Jane McGarrigle nurture their roots in Mountain City Girls
OK, so you’re likely aware of their connection to such icons as Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Bob Dylan. But Urgel Bourgie? Yeah, that Urgel Bourgie, of Quebec undertaking fame. Turns out that...
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Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche pick up family torch in the...
Lucy Wainwright Roche was having a moment. On a conference call from New York with half-sister Martha Wainwright in Montreal, the extent to which the two had grown up in parallel universes was hitting...
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Wainwright/McGarrigle cohort Tannenbaum releases the album of a lifetime
There are many cool Chaim Tannenbaum stories, but this one is perhaps the ultimate classic. It was 1971 and the Montrealer was living in London, doing his doctorate in the philosophy of mathematics at...
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Editorial: It's good to see new Montreal street names putting women on the map
Of Montreal’s 6,000 streets, roads and boulevards, a mere 6 per cent are named after women. Half are named for men. (The others are not named for individuals.) Jeanne Mance, one of the founders of this...
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Homebody: Martha Wainwright finds her place on new disc Goodnight City
Martha Wainwright breezed into the room wearing grey coveralls, which she explained were recently used for a video shoot. She had just driven in from the country and hadn’t had time to shower, she...
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