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Montreal funeral for Kate McGarrigle
2/1/2010
MONTREAL -- About 500 people have paid tribute to singer Kate McGarrigle in a funeral service that celebrated her life and music.
Emmylou Harris and McGarrigle's children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, were among those who sang during the two-hour service at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.
Both of the Wainwrights choked up as they spoke warmly about their mother.
The 63-year-old musician died at her Montreal home on Jan. 18 after a battle with cancer.
McGarrigle and her sister Anna became known as the McGarrigle Sisters and began their careers performing at Montreal coffeehouses in the 1960s with a group called the Mountain City Four.
They were perhaps best-known to Canadians for their distinctive rendition of Wade Hemsworth's "The Log Driver's Waltz," which was featured in a 1979 animated short done by the National Film Board.
Kate McGarrigle was invested with the Order of Canada in 1994, while she and Anna received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 2004.
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