It’s also a fundraising event, marking the milestone that Basilica has just been conferred formal 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization status. Her old pal will be the second guest in Basilica’s biennial Pioneering People Series, a combination of concert and conversation scheduled for Saturday, October 22 in the huge converted industrial space in Hudson. One of the friends of Rufus Wainwright’s youth and early music-club career in Montreal was rocker Melissa Auf der Maur, who is now firmly anchored in our region as co-founder and director of Basilica Hudson. He still retains dual Canadian/American citizenship. But mostly he grew up in his mother’s native city of Montreal, after his parents’ divorce. He discovered his love for opera and theater – and also came to terms with the fact that he was gay – while a prep school student at the Millbrook School in the 1980s. ![]() He was born at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck 1973, when his parents, folkie superstars Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, were living in Mount Tremper. ![]() Larger-than-life singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright has a lot of historical connections to the Hudson Valley.
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