Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle
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| Compilation album by Various artists | ||||
| Released | June 25, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | June 12, 2010 at Royal Festival Hall, London; May 12–13, 2011 at Town Hall, New York City; June 13, 2012 at Luminato, Massey Hall, Toronto | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Joe Boyd | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A– |
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| The Irish Times | |
| The New Zealand Herald | 4.5/5 |
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle is a two-disc compilation tribute album to Canadian singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, released by Nonesuch Records in June 2013.
The album features select songs from four concerts held in honor of McGarrigle, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame member of the duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle who died of sarcoma in 2010. Following her death, a series of tribute concerts was organized by her children (singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright) and her sister Anna in London, New York and Toronto.
Proceeds from the concerts helped to establish the Kate McGarrigle Foundation, a nonprofit organization which serves to fight sarcoma and preserve McGarrigle's artistic legacy; net proceeds from the album will also benefit the Foundation. Sing Me the Songs was produced by Joe Boyd, who also curated the tribute concerts.
Following Kate McGarrigle's death in 2010 from sarcoma, her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright and her sister Anna McGarrigle organized a series of tribute concerts: June 12, 2010 at Royal Festival Hall in London, May 12–13, 2011 at Town Hall in New York City, and June 13, 2012 at Luminato in Massey Hall, Toronto. The London concert was commissioned and produced by Southbank Centre as part of Meltdown, an annual music festival curated by a different artist each year (Richard Thompson in 2010); Catherine Steinmann served as co-producer and Calum MacColl served as music director. Thompson said of the McGarrigle tribute at Meltdown, called "A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle":
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