Album: The McGarrigle Christmas Hour by Kate & Anna McGarrigle (2005)
Style: Folk
Format: Album

Description: "The McGarrigle Christmas Hour" is the tenth album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle released on the Nonesuch label in 2005.. A sequel to their 1998 album The McGarrigle Hour, the album features a program of Christmas music recorded by the McGarrigles, their family and a number of friends and collaborators. It was also the last album to be released by the duo before Kate's death in 2010.
Performers on the album include Kate's son and daughter Rufus and Martha, Anna's husband Dane Lanken and their children Lily and Sylvan, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane, as well as Emmylou Harris, Chaim Tannenbaum, Pierre Marchand, Joel Zifkin, Brad Albetta, Teddy Thompson and Beth Orton.

Artist Background: Kate and Anna McGarrigle were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec. Anna McGarrigle and Kate McGarrigle were born in Montreal of mixed Irish- and French-Canadian background, but lived their childhood in the Laurentian Mountains village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, northwest of Montreal, where they learned piano from village nuns. In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, they began per... Part of the Montreal,Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1960s era. Known for Folk style.

Music Scene: Part of the Montreal,Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1960s era. Known for Folk style.

Tags: Folk, 2000s, Album


"The McGarrigle Christmas Hour" is the tenth album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle released on the Nonesuch label in 2005.. A sequel to their 1998 album The McGarrigle Hour, the album features a program of Christmas music recorded by the McGarrigles, their family and a number of friends and collaborators. It was also the last album to be released by the duo before Kate's death in 2010.
Performers on the album include Kate's son and daughter Rufus and Martha, Anna's husband Dane Lanken and their children Lily and Sylvan, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane, as well as Emmylou Harris, Chaim Tannenbaum, Pierre Marchand, Joel Zifkin, Brad Albetta, Teddy Thompson and Beth Orton.

The McGarrigle Christmas Hour

Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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