News featuring Martha Wainwright

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Tuesday 14th May

  • “Martha Wainwright Rolls Out Canadian Fall Tour”

    Martha Wainwright may be supporting her latest album Come Home to Mama and her Trauma soundtrack overseas later this month, but the Canadian-born folk artist has announced a number of back-home dates to keep her busy from the summer straight through to 2014. It had previously been reported that Wainwright would be hitting up the Montreal's International Jazz Festival and Guelph's Hillside fest in July, but a press release has now unveiled a fall trip around Ontario, Quebec and the Yukon. This trek begins October 16 in Gatineau, QC, and wraps over a month later in Quebec City....Read More

    Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

  • “Kate McGarrigle Honoured with Tribute Album Featuring Antony Hegarty, Broken Social Scene, Rufus and Martha Wainwright”

    After Canadian folk icon Kate McGarrigle sadly succumbed to liver cancer in 2010, her musically inclined family members — sister Anna McGarrigle and children Rufus and Martha Wainwright — organized tribute concerts in London, Toronto and New York. In the coming months, those shows will be chronicled with a live album and a documentary film. The album is called Sing Me the Songs, and it's due out on June 25 through Nonesuch. It was produced by Joe Boyd, who curated the gigs. Proceeds will benefit the Kate McGarrigle Foundation, which aims to assist sarcoma research and...Read More

    Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

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Thursday 2nd May

  • “Readers recommend: songs about breathing – results”

    A week's a long time to hold your breath, but here it is at last – RR regular suzi's top picks from last week's topic

    Tangerine Dream's lovely instrumental Breath Kissing Matter's Mouth suggests the burgeoning and multiplying of life on Earth, the incredible fecundity of nature. But until around 2.4bn years ago our planet was barren, as we understand it. Then blue-green algae began to photosynthesise oxygen from sunlight.

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Monday 22nd April

  • “Hillside Festival Announces 2013 Edition with Fucked Up, the Sadies, Lee Ranaldo, Bonnie "Prince" Billy”

    Hillside Festival is now in its 30th year, and the organizers of the long-running event at Guelph Lake Island in Ontario will be celebrating this milestone by presenting impressive lineup of performers that includes Canadian favourites, in addition to some stars from abroad. The event runs from July 26 to 29. The lineup features Fucked Up, the Sadies, Diamond Rings, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Dawn McCarthy, the Darcys, Colin Stetson, Whitehorse, Akron/Family, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Hayden, Lee Ranaldo Band, Martha Wainwright, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Two Hours Traffic, METZ,...Read More

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Tuesday 29th January

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Wednesday 19th December

  • “Martha Wainwright Announces Soundtrack Album, Books Canadian Tour”

    We're still absorbing Martha Wainwright's latest album, Come Home to Mama, which dropped back in October, but the Montreal-born songwriter has already announced a new release and a Canadian tour for 2013. The new collection is called Trauma: Chansons de la Serie Tele #04. It's a soundtrack for the new season of the francophone medical drama Trauma on Radio-Canada. The songs will be released one at a time after each weekly episode of Trauma. The first track will hit the web on January 10, with the full album following on February 19. A press release...Read More

    Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

  • “Martha Wainwright Unveils Canadian Tour Dates”

    Now that her long-anticipated new album Come Home to Mama is available, Martha Wainwright has done what all hard-working musicians should do and booked a tour. Following some American dates later this week, the early 2013 trek includes stops in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, though the Victoria and Vancouver dates are still awaiting venue confirmation. The whole thing runs for nine days in March. Check out the full itinerary below. Come Home to Mama is available now via MapleMusic. You can also read Exclaim!'s recent interview with the...Read More

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