RIP: Kate McGarrigle

From the New York Times:

Kate McGarrigle, a
Canadian singer and songwriter who, with her sister Anna, had a repertory of
intimate songs about love and family in good times and bad, died of liver cancer
on Monday. She was 63 and died at her home in Montreal, her brother-in-law, Dane
Lanken, told The Associated Press.

The
McGarrigle Sisters were praised by
critics for the warmth of their harmonies and for their approach to folk music,
which was neither academic nor commercial. Born in Montreal and raised in
St.-Saveur-des-Monts, a village about 50 miles to the north, the sisters learned
music from nuns and from their family’s regular singalongs at home, which drew
from wide sources in folk and traditional pop. The eldest McGarrigle sister,
Jane, was a church organist.

Kate
McGarrigle, who was once married to the singer Loudon Wainwright III, and her
survivors include her sisters and two children who have become well-known
singers, Rufus and Martha.

(H/T: TBLMISBT.)