Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who recorded and performed with her late sister Kate McGarrigle.[1][2]
Anna McGarrigle | |
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| Born | December 4, 1944 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Website | mcgarrigles |
Early life
editAnna McGarrigle studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal (1964-1968).[3]: 212, 229–230
Music career
editIn the 1960s, Montreal natives Kate and Anna McGarrigle established themselves in Montreal's burgeoning folk scene while they attended school.[4]: 7–8 From 1963 to 1967, they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four.[4]: 9–10 The sisters wrote, recorded and performed music into the twenty-first century with assorted accompanying musicians, including Chaim Tannenbaum and Joel Zifkin.[4]: 11, 83
McGarrigle was also a songwriter; her song "Heart Like a Wheel" was the title track of Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album, and her song "Cool River" was recorded by Maria Muldaur.[5]
In 2016 Anna and her older sister Jane wrote a book together, Mountain City Girls.[6]
Personal life
editMcGarrigle married journalist Dane Lanken on August 25, 1977, in Hawkesbury, Ontario.[4]: 44 She and Lanken have two children, Sylvan (b. 1977) and Lily (b. 1979).[4]: 44
Awards
editKate and Anna's 1976 debut album Kate & Anna McGarrigle was chosen by Melody Maker as Best Record of the Year. In 1993 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[7]
The duo's albums Matapedia (1996) and The McGarrigle Hour (1998) won Juno Awards. In 1999 Kate and Anna received Women of Originality awards and in 2006 SOCAN Lifetime Achievement awards.[1]
In 2017 she was presented with a Quebec Arts and Letters Award.[8]
Discography
edit- Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1976)
- Dancer with Bruised Knees (1977)
- Pronto Monto (1978)
- Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse (1980)
- Love Over and Over (1982)
- Heartbeats Accelerating (1990)
- Matapédia (1996)
- The McGarrigle Hour (1998)
- La vache qui pleure (2003)
- The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (2005)
- ODDiTTiES (2010)
- Tell My Sister (2011)
- Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (2013)
- Tant Le Monde: Live in Bremen, Germany, 2005 (2022)
References
edit- ^ a b Betty Nygaard King (December 16, 2013). "McGarrigle, Kate and Anna". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ Clarkson, Adrienne (November 5, 2004). "Speech on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards". Archive.gg.ca. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
- ^ McGarrigle, Anna & Jane (2015). Mountain City Girls. Canada: Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-345-81402-9.
- ^ a b c d e Lanken, Dane (2007). Kate and Anna McGarrigle Songs and Stories. Canada: Penumbra Press. ISBN 978-18-9732-304-5.
- ^ "Heart Like A Wheel". Rolling Stoone, January 16, 1975, By Stephen Holden
- ^ "Jane and Anna McGarrigle talk sisterhood". Homerun, CBC Radio, Mar 16, 2016
- ^ "Order of Canada award". Archive.gg.ca. 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ "Anna McGarricle gets her due". Montreal Gazette, May 30, 2017