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Kate Mc Garrigle

January 20, 2010
15:27 PM

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Adieu Kate Mc Garrigle, yourself and Anna helped me through the Seventies.

Anyone who only knows her as Rufus and Martha’s mother watch here

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  1. Sue

    on January 20, 2010

    Oh Martin! Waterloo Road and us young and the whole world ahead! I saw her death on another blog. What was it about broken knees-the McGarrigles?
    Booking our flights to come and see you in May.

  2. caitriona

    on January 20, 2010

    ah, very sad. i remember when you went to see them in the bridge hotel and you got them to autograph a poster for me. wonder whatever happened to that?

  3. Martin

    on January 20, 2010

    Ahh ! It must have been about 1983.They had just done a gig in Parc Ui Caoimh in Cork and did a gig in a tiny room in the back of the Bridge Hotel in Waterford on their way to the ferry in Rosslare. I remember Kate thanking her son, who was there with her, for doing the sound for her, now we all know who that was.
    I think hers was the only autograph I have ever asked for and she insisted on knowing your name and then when she got the spelling wrong she crossed it out and wrote it again!
    We lived with that signed flyer on the wall for years until it went the way of all flesh.
    Sue.
    That was their third LP, Dancer with Bruised Knees, funnily enough I remember listening to Louden Wainwright in the Mill almost as well as listening to the sisters.

  4. Eileen

    on January 21, 2010

    Very sad. She accompanied us on many car journeys across France. I think Swimming Song was my favourite. ‘I held my breath and I kicked my feet and I moved my arms around, moved my arms around’.

  5. PanaDoll

    on January 22, 2010

    I don’t think it was Pairc Ui Caoimh…unless they played there another time. I went to see them in Connolly Hall and was backstage and took loads of great black and white ‘photos (which I will reproduce when I eventually get a scanner) and had a fantastic night with Kate and Anna and the band. I think I still have the address book where Kate wrote her contact details. Another great Canadian folk singer who is gone is John Rankin of the Rankin family whose car went over a cliff on Nova Scotia. Always think of him and Dhiarmuidin Uí Shuilleabháin driving the roads around Dingle.

  6. Martin

    on January 22, 2010

    And twas yourself Bebs who first introduced us to the Mc Garrigles in Lincoln Place in 1977.

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