There are other fine songs on Martha Wainwright's 2012 album, Come Home to Mama, but Proserpina, the one that gives the disc its title and the last completed work by her late mother, Kate McGarrigle, looks set to become a standard of the modern "folk" repertoire that identifies her to subsequent generations, as Music For A Found Harmonium does the late Simon Jeffes of Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
In what was otherwise a solo set with acoustic guitar (save the a cappella off-mike encore of Piaf's La Vie En Rose), Wainwright was joined for Proserpina by festival director Donald Shaw on harmonium and Aly Bain on fiddle for what were the most moving moments of a very fine show that consistently referenced her family, in the way that the remarkable Wainwright clan often does.
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