Whatever happened to mary margaret o'hara ?

MMoH on the left

SCTV's The Last Polka - The Lemon Twins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JreEPKE7FMA

I'm sad no one else has posted this yet. And I'm sad I'm finding out about this about a week before it's going down.

http://www.villagevoice.com/nycguide/ev121095,6.html

Mary Margaret O’Hara and Guests
The Stone
E 2nd St & Avenue C, New York, NY
Sat, Jan 05, 08:00 pm

$10, baargain.

bargain for all 50 people who can fit into that room

I know she's modest, but that is going to be madness

very surprised that alex ross liked this album. i am a sucker for good drumming too but no drummer in the world can save these shitty ballads (even reckoner which may be the best song is totally annihilated after one and a half minutes by the string section).

sorry, wrong thread!

I love that bodies in trouble song but know nothing else. Is it all as off kilter and beautiful?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQbAr1DCjYw&feature=related

if you like this, find a copy of miss america

I actually just rapidshared one. I'll have to get sick of listening to Body's in Trouble before I listen to anything else.

You want to feel somebody, *oh* who do you talk to?

Did anybody make it to the show?

I love this album, especially Anew Day and Not Be Alright

She's playing Saturday in a festival with AR Hacke and Tony Conrad at the Funny Farm in Ontario. http://www.electric-eclectics.com/
Here's her piece in the Hal Willner/Kurt Weill movie. This is when I fell for her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQBdxA47lE

ok that Kurt Weill clip

there's no one like her

oh WOW WOW. i need an mp3 of that. pretty amazing playing on the track even without MMO'H but she's incredible. utterly unique.

Damn you I can't find my headphones!

still, just watchin' her twitch there

http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cms/images/20070811ohara/ohara4-t.jpg

[Removed Illegal Link] has streaming audio from a performance at the 2007 Edmonton Folk Music Festival.

try this :: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20070811ohara

that 'don't be afraid'... the kind of arrangement I wish she sang over more often.

http://www.amazon.com/September-Songs-Music-Kurt-Weill/dp/B0000029WM

there's close to a dozen new youtube clips up. including the live version of 'year in song', the john candy memorial, with the Razorbacks singing 'blue christmas' wearing angel wings, & a total improv freakout from Ontario a few months ago.

i had no idea she was Catherine O'Hara's sister!

Me neither, 'til buying A Mighty Wind a coupla months back

the edmunton show is great...thanks for posting : )

MMOH in London! Sounds a bit rubbish but:

Twisted Christmas
11 Dec at 7.30pm

Featuring Jarvis Cocker, Sandy Dillon, Daniel Knox, Bonfire Madigan, Mary Margaret O’Hara, The Inn-Ringers, The Smoke Fairies, Foy Vance, Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl, Patrick Wolf & more
A deliciously dark evening of twisted Christmas songs.
http://event.barbican.org.uk/t/853767/386952/7247/0/

well there are
tears
'round your heart

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=KOere1NrLXU&feature=related

great new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZWjKCM9Ad8

She lists her email address (scroll down) and says you can write to her to buy Miss America. Makes me want to get a second copy.

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She's in the recent music issue of The Believer, including her e-mail address, for people who want to buy Miss America.

She's one of my all-time favorites.

had never seen these clips before, this one is a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazB8ZRuPN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zUu4ccvQ_I

this is fucking glorious

lovely

when she starts crying in the video (2 minutes in) i get a lump in my throat. every single time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqctCwhunjE

alba has seen this! has anyone else?

that looks amazing!!

and so beautiful to look at even in the trailer. wow, i must see that.

it does! i didn't know about it. it was the trailer before the movie i went to see this week and i had a moment of confusion.

yeah i saw it last week. it's very good. the director does sort of non-narrative travelogues with some meditative musings over the top -- i was surprised by how well it was worked into a fiction film. it helps that the male lead actor is so sonorous and watchable. i was bored a couple of times -- where the camera lingers on urban scenes where i don't see the point of lingering -- but for the most part it's v warm and rewarding, and has moments of real beauty.

i love that she looks so much like her sis. cuz i love them both so much.

i could look at this picture all day.

http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Catherine+O+Hara+Mary+Margaret+O+Hara+CineVegas+XgGyDCtnyolx.jpg

i don't think i've been so excited to see something for years.

Cohen also had a hand in arranging the collaboration that recently brought O’Hara to Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio to work with Constellation Records’ Thierry Amar, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto (members of Vic Chesnutt’s band) and Australian drummer Jim White of Dirty Three.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=188372

there are some sisterly themed alice munro stories where i totally picture the sisters as the O'Hara sisters.

interesting, i don't really know his story. i noticed in the credits patti smith exec produced museum hours. xp

I was just thinking about MMOH last night because we finished watching The OA and I got some of the same feelings from it that I get from this album.

my TAAAAALE is TAAAAAALLLLLL

I'd forgotten about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtuYmYg8OU

I didn't know this happened!

wow...this first improv is something else

Very very stoked. Just bought two tix to see her in June!

ohhhh!!!!

It's the "Beautiful Tool" combo who performed a handful of shows three years ago and I don't think anything since.

??Where is this happening??

Canada. At the Vancouver Jazz Festival. Tix were $28. A bargain imo.

Here's a baffled review from (I think) the last show in 2015.

Haha I just noticed she did "The Snake" - that thing that Trump performs from time to time.

Man so jealous

Show was good. A few reservations but I enjoyed it a lot. It didn't blow minds or anything. It was unrehearsed and the band could've used more direction. The starts and ends of the songs were all ramshackle, much of it was improvised and they overplayed on most songs imo. There was one bit near the end when they did a great key change and I thought "fucksake-an arrangement!"

She herself forgot the words on dozens of occasions and barely two lines in a row were ever sung straight. It was like Liza Minnelli slipping back and forth between Ella-style focused scatting and Yoko Ono making whatever noises she's feeling in the moment. Followed by some whistling or whatever. Pretty amazing.

If I'd wandered in not knowing what it was I might have been racking my brains for what Shimmy Disc act might have reformed - the only previous time I saw a balloon used as a musical instrument was at a Eugene Chadbourne gig.

She's on Bandcamp:

https://peggylee1.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-tool

Oh wow thanks!

New one-minute ditty

This inimitable bit of O'Haratude popped up unexpectedly in my Release Radar today

https://rising.melbourne/wormhole/singles-club-jim-white-and-mary-margaret-ohara