<p>Sad
[Kate</a> McGarrigle 1946 2010](<a href=“http://www.mcgarrigles.com/uncategorized/kate-mcgarrigle-1946-2010]Kate”>Kate McGarrigle 1946 – 2010)</p>
<p>If anyone’s interested, I posted several fine performance clips today in a music blog I started a while ago. </p>
<p>Google: Kate McGarrigle music clip of the day</p>
<p>Music is very important to me- it is pretty much as spiritual as it gets as far as I am concerned 
She will be missed.</p>
<p>“Heartbeats Accelerating” is one of my favorite albums (even though I find “I eat dinner” to be such a haunting song.) </p>
<p>Magnificent harmony…now … just a melody. </p>
<p>She leaves a wonderful legacy in her music and her children.<br>
May she rest in peace.</p>
<p>This is sad. I loved their music. I have some early memories with my own kids, sitting with my little (then) daughter listening to “Dancer With Bruised Knees” (on vinyl!). DD was transfixed with their harmonies, as was I. </p>
<p>My H and I made their song “First Born Son” a themesong for our eldest boy. It fit him so well, “He’s the first born son, a son-of-a-gun. The first to be called and the last to come.”</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this here. I didn’t know she was ill. I’ll go listen up.</p>
<p>I own 4 of her records on vinyl, plus one Cd (the family album) and listened to all of the them today. My sister and I discovered the McGarrigles when I was about 15. We checked out the record from the local library. Slogged home in the snow and rain, put the record on and fell in love with their sound. The world has lost a wonderful musician, song writer and spiritual individual. :(</p>
<p>so glad you posted…went to watch her final performances and will get out my records and dream of their wonderful sound today. good tribute to her on Vanity Fair’s pages online to enjoy…</p>
<p>paying3tuitions, I have “Dancer” on vinyl too. I also love Kate’s “Southern Boys” (“buttered grits his fare for breakfast/and if you like and your aim is good, maybe a squirrel”) and those two French songs that close out side one.</p>
<p>One of my favorite K&A recordings is their version of Stephen Foster’s lovely elegy “Gentle Annie” that’s on youtube. Kate sings it beautifully, and it’s especially poignant now.</p>
<p>I didn’t even realize that she was Rufus Wainwright’s mother.</p>