#sylvan lanken

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OMG

Anna & Jane McGarrigle as well as Lily, Sylvan and Dane Lanken (Anna's whole family!), Peter Weldon (Jane's partner!) and Chaim Tannenbaum RERECORDED COMPLAINT POUR SAINT CATHRINE for a new National Film Board short film called "The girl with the red beret" that is coming this spring. The movie is about a girl riding around on Montreal's Metro system to the tune of "Complaint Pour st. Cathrine"...HOLY FUCK THIS WILL BE SO GOOD

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Sylvan. Lily & Dane Lanken. Martha Wainwright. Rufus Wainwright. Joel Zifkin. ‘Hard Times Come Again No More’. [acoustic Stephen Foster cover  live @ ‘Songs of the Civil War’ companion cd, PBS tv, 1990].

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Lily Lanken, Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright and Chaim Tannenbaum (in the bakground Kathleen Weldon & Sylvan Lanke) performing as "Mountain City Four". September 2022.

Photo by Alan McInnis/Montreal Gazette

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle with three of their four children, Martha & Rufus Wainwright and Sylvan Lanken in Venise-en-Quebec, 1980.

Photo by Randi Saharuni

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Sun Son (Shining on the water)/I Cried for us by Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Canadian single from 1982. The boy in the photo is Anna McGarrigle's oldest child Sylvan Lanken, photographed by his father Dane.

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Do you want to support research on a rare, deadly cancer variant and support cancer patients with a passion for music?

So you want to witness a passionate Christmas show by one of the royal families of folk music in return?

The yearly McGarrigle/Wainwright Christmas show has tickets on sale now!

All proceeds from the show goes to the Kate McGarrigle fund, which donates to research of Saracoma cancer, the same type which eventually killed Kate herself, and create therapy programs for cancer patients with a passion for music.

This year, due to COVID-19, the concert will be live-streamed from three different locations: Montreal - where Martha Wainwright will be hosting, Los Angeles - where her brother Rufus Wainwright is the host, and New York - where their half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche will lead the show.

Advance tickets are between $20 and $250. From $75 and up, they include access to a video chat with the hosts afterwards. A day of ticket is $25. Donate to a great cause and get a wonderful experience in return!

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Kate and Anna McGarrigle with their four children, 1985.

L to R, front to back: Lily Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Sylvan Lanken, Rufus Wainwright, Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle.

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Hard Times, Come Again No More

The whole McGarrigle fanily comes toghther for the end of Rufus Wainwright's 60 day long daily music stream, Quarantunes.

They come toghther singing a song which has long been a McGarrigle classic. They have sung it on TV, Live and made a music video of it. It brings hope and love and it shows a family coming toghther even in these times of seperation.

Could you wish for anything more?

People featured in the video: Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Sylvan & Lily Lanken (and Sylvan's child), Anna & Jane McGarrigle, Gabrielle "Gigi" & Islay McMillan, Ian Vicent "Vinnie" Dow & Kathleen Weldon (and their child), Peter Weldon, Patrick Perry and family friend Joel Zifkin.

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The "Sing me the songs" Ensamble in New York, 2012. A wide array of artists gathered to sing praise to Canadian Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle through performing her material.

Picture 1, L to R: Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright, Greg Prestopino, Joel Zifkin, Ian Vincent "Vinnie" Dow, Norah Jones and Dane Lanken.

Picture 2, L to R: Kathleen Weldon, Sylvan Lanken, Rufus Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum and Krystal Warren.

Picture 3, L to R: Justin Bond, Jenni Muldaur, Emmylou Harris, Lily Lanken, Michel Pépin, Sloan Wainwright, Jörn Wiesbrodt (?), Anna McGarrigle, ?

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle with children Rufus & Martha Wainwright and Sylvan & Lily Lanken, ca 1983.

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OMG

OH MY FUCKING GOD

THE CORNMAN

THE FUCKING CORNMAN

A Black and white folklore horror story by Vinnie (Ian Vincent) Dowe and Kathleen Weldon !!!

Music by Jane McGarrigle & Peter Weldon (!!! These fucking stars toghther to score their kids film?! YAS)

Starring DANE LANKEN as the cornman who comes to EAT the boy who refuse to eat his corn (ARCANGELO WAINWRIGHT ALBETTA)!!!

Features Sylvan & Lily Lanken (don't see Lily in the trailer though, only hear her voice?) and someone named Nessie (??? My collected McGarrigle/Wainwright/Lanken/Dowe knowledge do not know who she is) and Leida the dog!

Gabrielle and Islay McMillan (Jane McGarrigle's grandbabies via daughter Anna Catherine) do paralell recitation!!!

Costumes & Make up by the one and only Lily Lanken ❤

Filmed on ANNA & DANE'S FARM in Alexandria, Ontario way back in 2015!!!

GUYS can you tell how fucking excited i am over this shortfilm?! THIS EXCITED THATS HOW EXCITED I AM !!! My ONLY other wish would be for this to have Jane or Anna do a part!

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Wainwright/McGarrigle friends and family sing "Matapedia" and "Kiss and Say goodbye" at the Complainte Pour Ste Cathrine Kate McGarrigle tribute show at the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto.

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Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse, Heart like a wheel and On my way to town performed at the 'Compalinte Pour Ste Cathrine' Kate McGarrigle tribute show at the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto.

Crew: Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Lily & Sylvan Lanken, Kathleen Weldon, Vinnie Dow, Chaim Tannenbaum and Joel Zifkin.

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Promotional poster for Complaint Pour Catherine, a set of two Kate McGarrigle tribute shows in Montreal & Toronto on February 5th and 8th 2020.

The shows celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the death of Kate McGarrigle on Janury 18th 2010, as well as her Birthday - February 6th 1946.

Poster ny Judy Garfin

People featured on the poster, L - R:

Ian Vincenzo Dow, Lily Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Jane McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Kathleen Weldon and Sylvan Lanken.

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More beautiful photos, this time from the rehersals in London, by Lucy Wainwright Roche.

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Rehearsals for the "Complainte Pour Ste Cathrine" Kate McGarrigle tribute shows.

Videos shows Rufus Wainwright rehearsing the song "Go Leave".

Other family members and friends seen in the video: Anna McGarrigle, Lily Lanken, Sylvan Lanken, Vinnie Dow, (Jane McGarrigle?), Kathleen Weldon, Chaim Tannenbaum and Joel Zifkin.