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Rufus and Martha Wainwright to launch initiative to help musicians with cancer record music
Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright are due to launch a new initiative that will help musicians with cancer record music – find out more below.Dubbed Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project, the initiative is inspired by the Wainwright sibling’s late mother Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010 from cancer. McGarrigle was herself a folk singer-songwriter.“Near the end of our mother’s life, music became everything to her,” Rufus said in a statement, per Rolling Stone.