Laury Jane McGarrigle (April 26, 1941 – January 24, 2025) was a Canadian musician and music publisher, known mainly for her work with her younger sisters, singers

Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of folk rock and country folk Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed together until Kate's death in 2010 ...

. She was the co-author of a book about the three sisters' childhood and musical experiences.

Early and personal life

McGarrigle was born and grew up in

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

, with her sisters

Kate Kate may refer to: People and fictional characters * Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer * Lauren Kate (born 1981), American author o ...

and

Anna Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th c ...

. She died on January 24, 2025, at the age of 83.

Career

When McGarrigle's younger sisters formed a singer-songwriter duo,

, Jane wrote and performed several songs with them. She produced their album '' Love Over and Over''."Anna and Jane McGarrigle’s memoir overflows with wit"
. ''Macleans Magazine'', by Christopher Loudon, November 7, 2015 The song "Love Is", which she co-wrote, has been recorded by

Nana Mouskouri Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri ( ; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released an estimated 450 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek language, Greek, French language, French, ...

Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist. She is considered one of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana (music), Americana genre ...

, and

Renato Russo Renato Russo (born Renato Manfredini, Jr., March 27, 1960 – October 11, 1996) was a Brazilian musician who was the lead singer of the pop rock band Legião Urbana. A Brazilian film depicting his life and career was released in 2013, called ...

(who also recorded the co-written "Man Is an Island").(July 1994). "SOCAN's new Board of Directors", ''Words & Music'' 1 (7): 6. She served as her sisters'

music manager A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager, or music manager) is an individual who guides the professional career of Entertainer, artists within the entertainment industry. The responsibility of a talent manager is to ove ...

for a time,"McGarrigle sisters tell family and folk music history with 'Mountain City Girls'"
. ''CTV News'', Victoria Ahearn, November 16, 2015 and also managed producers Pierre Marchand (

Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is ''Surfacing (album), Surfacing'' (1997), for which she won two G ...

) and

Robbi Finkel Robbi Finkel (born Robert Mark Finkel; April 11, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American-Canadian composer, record producer, pianist and arranger. Grammy nominated, Finkel is an honorary lifetime voting member of the National Academy o ...

(

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...

) and the group Three O'Clock Train. McGarrigle co-composed, with her sisters, the scores to the Canadian film '' Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller'' and its sequel '' The Return of Tommy Tricker''. She appeared in the 1999 film ''The McGarrigle Hour'', a collection of concert footage. McGarrigle was a member of the

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 175,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collect ...

(SOCAN) and served on its board of directors from 1990 to 2000. She was also on the board of the Songwriters Association of Canada. In 2013, she was part of a SOCAN representative group for a streamed panel, "Can the Music Industry be Saved?" With her sister Anna, she co-authored ''Mountain City Girls'', a family memoir published in 2015 by Random House Canada."Review: The McGarrigle sisters look back on their careers in Mountain City Girls"
. ''The Globe and Mail'' , Brad Wheeler, December 11, 2015 The book contains stories about the childhood and musical careers of the three sisters.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McGarrigle, Jane 1941 births 2025 deaths Canadian women songwriters Canadian film score composers Musicians from Montreal Quebec people of Irish descent Canadian women composers Writers from Montreal Canadian music managers McGarrigle–Wainwright–Roche family