A Mother’s Love: An Interview with Martha Wainwright
Wainwright talks about the birth of her son and the death of her mother, Kate McGarrigle, and her astonishing new album,
Music • October 2012 • Views: 783
In November 2009, Martha Wainwright gave birth to her first child in London. After a difficult and life-threatening labour, her son spent the first few weeks of life in an incubator. At the same time, 3,000 miles away in Montreal, Wainwright’s mother, the acclaimed folk singer Kate McGarrigle, battled against the sarcoma which ravaged her body. Kate died in January 2010.