Zeroing in on the fact they're fused into one of Canada's musical royal families is probably a disservice. But Kate and Anna McGarrigle seem to perpetuate their story with such sparkly connections.
McGarrigle news is often strung along a web of links to Nick Cave sessions and recordings with Emmylou Harris, the beautifully grey-haired Queen Guest Star of them all. Or we hear of Kate's son, Rufus Wainwright, whom she spawned with her ex, Louden Wainwright III, in the first age of bell bottoms. But the two belle soeurs return apart from all that tomorrow night at Festival Place in Sherwood Park, part of a very small tour on the way to Yellowknife, worth perhaps even a very long bicycle ride through the cold from E-ville.
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