Whatever happened to mary margaret o'hara ?

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

that movie looks like something I would enjoy.

I read her Wikipedia entry thanks to this revive and found this very amusing:

In 1983, O'Hara left Go Deo and was signed by Virgin Records. Andy Partridge of XTC was scheduled as her producer but was fired after his first day [3] due to his reported difficulties with O'Hara's musical approach.

ha!

Andy Partridge of XTC was scheduled as her producer but was fired after his first day [3] due to his reported difficulties with O'Hara's musical approach.

Partridge has also intimated that devout Catholic O'Hara wasn't thrilled to find out her producer was an atheist and engineer John Leckie was under the spell of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. So suddenly they had a few weeks vacation on their hands, and Partridge mentions this idea he had to record a psychedelic album.

So we can thank Mary Margaret O'Hara for the Dukes of Stratosphear.

Scott, you have to see this. it's wonderful. really beautiful.

i was bored a couple of times -- where the camera lingers on urban scenes where i don't see the point of lingering

zvook, i'm kinda surprised at this since the film was completely about looking and seeing everything with equal weight and importance but choosing your own centre within the seeing and it's set up fairly early on. where the narrator describes the egg shells, bones, cigarette butts, old newspapers, spent beer cans and cuts from the Breugel to the scenes in Vienna. It's about slowness and lingering as well so i can understand the boredom but it's part of it and it pays off very gently at the end.

Then the Lecture on Breugel where the tour guide talks about finding the centre (for you) within the painting which analogues to as much time being spent looking at the people looking at the paintings as the paintings themselves in wide or in detail and the same techniques being used in the shots of the city referencing back to earlier in the film where Johann talks about seeing Anne and somehow "finding" her within the plethora of museum visitors and being interested in her, wanting to know her and not knowing why. it's not sexual - he's gay - it's really about making connections or finding a connection.

i was bowled over by this. i've not seen anything like it. really wonderful.

yes that's true but it's still boring a couple of times (i didn't mean every time, btw, far from it). it's true of his short work too, which i'd seen before i saw this, and is made up of just this sort of looking. there are always a few scenes which strike me as almost without value as if pulled at random from a day's cheap digital shooting.

what did u think of mmo'h in it?

I saw Museum Hours. I liked it quite a bit. It's true what zvookster says, about Jem Cohen's work being very much about this "looking." I don't know that he pulls his images at random, he's just someone who shoots a lot on his own, constantly, and creates a kind of personal archive of footage from which to pull shots from. I do think that stuff stands out in films like this or Chain, where he also uses actors, but it's his style and I like that he finds ways to expand what is obviously a very limited way of working. FWIW I think all the exterior/street stuff was shot on film, so maybe "cheap digital shooting" isn't really fair...

movie is fine, many of Jem Cohen's past films also worthwhile (Benjamin Smoke, Chain; never saw the Fugazi doc) xp

MMO'H never seems to be acting, A-

zvook, i didn't mean to describe the film to you. i knew you got it perfectly well, i was just thinking it through for myself. there were 5-10 minutes or so when i thought it was too much and, yes, a little boring but he pulled it back since, of course, that's a major point of the film. I'm interested to see his other stuff.

i though MMO'H was astounding.

It hasn't aged too well, but "Lost Book Found" is on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/63141083

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rZyMRdwwg

Wonder if anyone's heard anything other than this from that Go Deo Chorus demo tape that got them/her signed...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/19/cult-heroes-mary-margaret-ohara-miss-america

I don't consider those tributes to Weill and Cohen, nor The Black Rider productions, to be "relative trifles." And if she thinks she said it all on one album, so be it, right or wrong. Wonder how many people keep cranking it out when they secretly feel that way, or should?

WOW I had no idea the album was recorded in 83 and 84!

Author should have mentioned her track on Gary Lucas Gods and Monsters, v memorable

For some reason I heard this for the first time tonight - loved it. Lots of bits hanging at the edges throughout - whether that's a guitar, violin and the voice but there is so much to her voice I wouldn't reduce to that.

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