Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle
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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.
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle | ||||
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Compilation album by Various artists | ||||
Released | June 25, 2013 (2013-06-25) | |||
Recorded | June 12, 2010 | |||
Venue | 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 | |||
Various artists chronology | ||||
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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.