| Main Performers | Rufus Wainwright,
Martha Wainwright,
Kate McGarrigle,
Jorn Weisbrodt,
Sloan Wainwright,
Anna McGarrigle - vocals |
| Secondary Performers | Boy George,
Dawn French,
Guy Garvey,
Jennifer Saunders,
Teddy Thompson.
Ed Harcourt,
Janis Kelly,
Jenni Muldaur,
Shlomo
Backing singers |
| Set List | Skit - The Seven Joys of Mary (Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Linda Thompson, Jenni Muldaur),
'Christmas Wrapping', Waitresses (Martha Wainwright, Lily Lanken)
'All I Want',
'Some Children',
'Christmas is for Kids',
'Run Rudolph',
'Cherry Tree Carol',
'River',
'White Christmas' (with Boy George),
'Il Est Ne',
'Ca Bergere',
'Madranque',
'Fairytale of New York' (with Ed Harcourt, Martha Wainwright),
'Silent Night' in German (with Jorn Weisbrodt)
INTERVAL
'Old Waits',
'Mary Had a Baby',
'Proserpina',
'Your Big Secret',
'Blue Christmas',
'3 Anges',
'Home for Christmas',
'Merry Christmas Baby',
'Wise Men',
'Minuit Chretien',
'What are you Doing?',
'Happy Christmas (War is Over)', J Lennon (Guy Garvey, Janis Kelly)
ENCORES
'Bleak Midwinter',
'Thank God It's Christmas' (Sloan Wainwright) |
| Performance Notes | Debut Royal Albert Hall performance from Rfus Wainwright.
A similar concept to the highly acclaimed Christmas show held at Carnegie Hall in 2008 the show featured Grammy-nominated Rufus Wainwright, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, his sister Martha and mother Kate McGarrigle, a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter. The Wainwrights performed alongside a whole host of guests promising a great night full of surprises.
Kate McGarrigle, Wainwright's mother, performed at the event, which raised $55,000 for the Kate McGarrigle Fund, which was established in 2008 to raise awareness of sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects connective tissue such as bone, muscle, nerves, and cartilage. It was the last public performance by his mother before her death six weeks later |
| Related Archival Material | Digital Photographs |