Like many other fans of the folk music scene in Montreal in the 60s, I was first introduced to Kate and Anna McGarrigle as part of the Mountain City Four. By the time they hit the "big stage" in the mid-70s, I had left Montreal but I was fortunate over the intervening years to catch them a number of times both north and south of the border.

Liam Clancy, Mary Travers, and now Kate McGarrigle. Yes, the heavenly coffee house has been enriched threefold but we are poorer here.

I'm going to go pour myself a single malt scotch now and listen to "Talk to Me of Mendocino" a couple of hundred times.

Rest in Peace, Kate, and thank you.