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Thread #126660   Message #2817008
Posted By: GUEST,Joan Churchill
20-Jan-10 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Kate McGarrigle has died 19 Jan. 2010
Subject: RE: Obit: Kate McGarrigle has died 19 Jan. 2010
ODE TO earlier days in Montreal ~
ripe today with memories of earlier times
drenched in music making such as Kate and Anna MeGarrigle
playing at Ben Applebaum's Tatoo Bar and Grill
singing the soundtrack to John Weldon's animated
film ~ LOG DRIVERS WALTZ ~ singing LIVE....no easy task...
crazy times, fun~filled, wildly imaginative and creative

their uniqueness the haunting beauy of their voices
harmonizing, melding with lovely sometimes lonely lyrics
the likes of which singsong memorable stories able to inflate
hearts, able to break hearts, able to bring hearts together, able to REACH heights of soaring joy, or break down into childish fits of whimsy ~ sheer delight, able to riddle brainwaves into dark and rich corners of provocative contemplation, able to infuse bones and bloodstreams with their sound waves causing gyrations of movement, swirled now into the depths of grief, my face, my cheeks stretched to the limit from EAR to EAR by these musical songstress's lyrical abilities able to ENRICH in ways the musical likes of which have yet to be equaled....makes me shake my head makes me stomp my feet and wiggle my hips and wig to the upbeat tempo of Kate and Anna MeGarrigle's music, makes me rail at death, makes me say over and over again, no way, Kate can't be gone....her music, their music, lives on.....