MONTREAL – Funeral services for acclaimed folksinger-songwriter Kate McGarrigle will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.
McGarrigle, 63, succumbed Jan. 18 to clear cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
Singer Martha Wainwright, McGarrigle’s daughter, had been prevented from travelling until this week because she gave birth to a premature baby in London, England, Nov. 16.
Emmylou Harris is also among the artists expected to attend the funeral.
The Kate McGarrigle Fund – which the artist set up in partnership with the McGill University Health Centre and the Cedars Cancer Institute – has received donations totalling almost $13,000 since she died, said Roger Tabah, the doctor who treated McGarrigle. The fund, which goes to research, education and patient care in the field of sarcoma, now stands at about $140,000, Tabah said.
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