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On this day, 27 June 2005, American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer Rufus Wainwright played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall.
He has recorded nine albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theatre piece by Robert Wilson.
Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III.
His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth.
His father is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th century Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, later New York. Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship.
Setlist
Crumb by Crumb
Hometown Waltz
Vibrate
Grey Gardens
This Love Affair
The One You Love
Beautiful Child
Memphis Skyline
Beauty Mark
Little Sister
Dinner at Eight
I Don't Know What It Is
Pretty Things
California
