In the 1960s, Montreal natives Kate and Anna McGarrigle established themselves in Montreal's burgeoning folk scene while they attended school.[4]:7–8 From 1963 to 1967, they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four.[4]:9–10 The sisters wrote, recorded and performed music into the twenty-first century with assorted accompanying musicians, including Chaim Tannenbaum and Joel Zifkin.[4]:11,83
McGarrigle was also a songwriter; her song "Heart Like a Wheel" was the title track of Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album, and her song "Cool River" was recorded by Maria Muldaur.[5]
In 2016 Anna and her older sister Jane (1941-2025) wrote a book together, Mountain City Girls.[6]
Personal life
McGarrigle married journalist Dane Lanken on August 25, 1977, in Hawkesbury, Ontario.[4]:44 She and Lanken have two children, Sylvan (b. 1977) and Lily (b. 1979).[4]:44
The duo's albums Matapedia (1996) and The McGarrigle Hour (1998) won Juno Awards. In 1999 Kate and Anna received Women of Originality awards and in 2006 SOCAN Lifetime Achievement awards.[1]
In 2017 she was presented with a Quebec Arts and Letters Award.[8]
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