Laury Jane McGarrigle (born 26 April 1941) is a Canadian songwriter, musician and music publisher, known mainly for her work with her younger sisters, singers Kate & Anna McGarrigle. She is the co-author of a book about the three sisters' childhood and musical experiences.
McGarrigle grew up in Montreal, Quebec, with her sisters Kate and Anna.[1]
When McGarrigle's younger sisters formed a singer-songwriter duo, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Jane wrote and performed several songs with them.[2] She produced their album Love Over and Over.[3][4]
The song "Love Is", which she co-wrote, has been recorded by Nana Mouskouri, Emmylou Harris, and Renato Russo (who also recorded the co-written "Man Is an Island").[5] She served as her sisters' music manager for a time,[6] and also managed producers Pierre Marchand (Sarah McLachlan) and Robbi Finkel (Cirque du Soleil) and the group Three O'Clock Train.[7][8]
McGarrigle co-composed, with her sisters, the scores to the Canadian film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller[9] and its sequel The Return of Tommy Tricker.
She appeared in the 1999 film The McGarrigle Hour, a collection of concert footage.[10]
McGarrigle is a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) and served on its board of directors from 1990 to 2000.[11] Until recently,[when?] 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?"[12]
With her sister Anna, she co-authored Mountain City Girls, a family memoir published in 2015 by Random House Canada.[13][14] The book contains stories about the childhood and musical careers of the three sisters.[6]
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