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Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle are a Canadian folk duo from Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, formed by sisters Anna McGarrigle (b. 1944) and Kate McGarrigle (1946-2010). Raised in a bilingual, musically active family, they learned the piano and developed a taste for folk, vocal harmonies and traditional North American music. In the early 1960s, while studying in Montreal, they began performing in cafés as part of the emerging folk movement, and wrote their first songs. Some of their compositions were soon noticed and performed by artists such as Maria Muldaur and Linda Ronstadt, bringing them in...