Pour one out for Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Jef in Music, Obit, Television
I’m guessing most Canadians know Kate McGarrigle as one half of the McGarrigle Sisters, Montreal folk singing siblings; either that, or as the woman Rufus and Martha Wainwright call ‘moms’. I’m guessing that’s her legacy, because that’s what all the obits are telling me.
For me, however, the only meaningful contact I’ve had with McGarricle’s work is this cartoon short, which got hell of play on television when I was too young to know or care what Can-Con was, but still able to spot it intuitively (the logs kind of gave it away). It was ubiquitous then, and I’m re-watching it now for the first time in decades because McGarricle has passed away. She was 63.
I have just the one memory, but thanks for it, it’s a really good one:
jessekg
Jan 20th, 2010
This was my most favourite video ever when I was a kid. I actually looked it up a couple years ago just to listen to it again. This and the “I’m just a bill, up on capital hill” song.
Anupa
Jan 20th, 2010
I used to love this and The Hockey Sweater. And those Canadian history commercials, like the one where the girl goes “doctor, I smell burnt toast”.