News
Jaunt Includes Two Christmas Shows
Oct 04, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Martha Wainwright is hitting the road in support of her forthcoming album Come Home to Mama. More
Interviews
Dec 05, 2012
By Hays Davis
Where some artists coming from a family of established performers might go to extremes to ensure that they find a voice of their own, Martha Wainwright found herself going full circle recently to find hers back at the source. The daughter of singer/songwriters Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle (as well as the sister of Rufus Wainwright), Wainwright chose the last song McGarrigle wrote (she died in 2010) as the centerpiece of her new album, Come Home to Mama More
Reviews
Dec 02, 2016
By Matt Conner
Every Wainwright family member, Martha included, has a flair for the dramatic, a commitment to emotional exploration that remains unconcerned and even completely detached from musical norms. More
Jul 05, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Midweek report. Wi-fi still works. Poutine stands still in possession of plenty of gravy and cheese. Street performers happily twirling in the ever-increasing humidity. Crazy guys in American flag hats in honor of the Fourth of July. Bucolic: thy name is Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. More
Oct 18, 2012
By Dan Lucas
With her third full studio album Come Home to Mama, the younger of music’s most beige siblings (Wainwright is the younger sister of musician Rufus Wainwright) since Oasis continues to settle nicely into Canada’s throne of easy-listening bland-pop vacated all those years ago now by Shania Twain. More
