Kate and Anna McGarrigle setlist

Swimming Song
(Loudon Wainwright III)

Kate: banjo, voice
Anna: squeezebox, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin

Received with cheers, as were all first-album songs Except for Ste Cathérine ...

Going Back to Harlan
(Anna McGarrigle)

Kate: banjo, voice
Anna: electric guitar, voice
Michel: bass + backing voice
Joel: violin + backing voice

Love Is
(Kate, Anna and Jane McGarrigle)

Kate: guitar, voice
Anna: guitar, voice
Michel: lead guitar + backing voice
Joel: bass

Big problems tuning up. 'Of course when we started out we used pianos ... much less trouble' (Kate)

Petite Annonce Amoureuse
(K+A & Philippe Tatarcheff)

Kate: guitar, voice
Anna: guitar, voice
Michel: bass + backing voice
Joel: violin
Sophie: tambourine

About a girl who advertises for a man 5'3" and gets one 5'2" ... the moral, 'Who advertises wins'

Skip Rope Song
(Jesse Winchester)

Kate: banjo, voice
Anna: electric guitar, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin
Lily: voice

'Jesse helped us move house and we recorded one of his songs as a thank you.'

Matapedia
(Kate and Anna McGarrigle)

Kate: guitar, voice
Anna: squeezebox, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin
Martha: voice
Lily: voice

Anna has trouble putting on the squeezebox. 'It's like a very serious sports bra.' Kate adds, 'A music bra'.
About a former paramour of Kate's, named Chris, whom she spurned even though he had an Austin Healey and a really nice Gibson guitar. Later he was teaching in a college, and met Martha, thinking it was Kate again.

Red Rocking Chair
(trad. ?)

'A song from Appalachia ... where they don't need Viagra'

Kate: banjo, voice
Anna: electric guitar, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin
Martha: guitar
Lily: voice
Sophie: tambourine

Heart Like a Wheel
(Anna McGarrigle)

Kate: piano, voice
Anna: voice
Joel: violin

Alice Blue Gown
(McCarthy / Tierney)

Kate: piano, voice
Anna: voice
Joel: violin
Lily: lead voice

I Eat Dinner
(Kate McGarrigle)

Kate: piano, voice
Anna: squeezebox, voice
Michel: guitar
Joel: violin
Martha: voice

La Vache qui Pleur
(K+A & Philippe Tatarcheff)

Kate: banjo, voice
Anna: guitar, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin
Martha: guitar
Lily: recorder, voice
Sophie: tambourine

They wrote some music for a film of that name, then later the tune got some words by Philippe Tatarcheff '... a very dour Calvinist from Switzerland who lives like an hermit and likes to write about cows.'

Ah Sunflower
(William Blake & K+A)

Kate: electric guitar, voice
Anna: guitar, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin
Martha: guitar
Lily: voice
Sophie: tambourine

They played the Fugs' version of this song, and asked Tatarcheff to translate it into French. His 'Ah Tournesol' didn't fit the tune, so they wrote a fresh tune, and then used it for the original words. They were just feeling their way with this new song. Much rejigging of the harmonies went on during the sound check.

Green Rocky Road
(trad.)

Kate: guitar, voice
Anna: guitar, voice
Michel: guitar + backing voice
Joel: violin + backing voice
Martha: voice
Lily: voice

Complainte Pour Ste Cathérine
(Anna McGarrigle & Philippe Tatarcheff)

Kate: squeezebox, voice
Anna: piano, voice
Michel: bass + voice
Joel: violin + voice
Martha: voice
Lily: voice
Sophie: tambourine

Encore

An Old Blues
?

Kate: guitar, voice
Anna: squeezebox, voice
Michel: guitar
Joel: violin

Started something like 'I heard the voice of the Jesus' ... and had a chorus including 'You're going to need some honey ...'

Talk to me of Mendocino
(Kate McGarrigle)

Kate: piano, voice
Anna: voice

Second encore

Kiss and Say Goodbye
(Kate McGarrigle)

Kate: piano, voice
Anna: squeezebox, voice
Michel: bass
Joel: violin + voice

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