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KW-33-2021: Tourdates, Setlist & Spoken Words by Leonard Cohen – Live in Concert – Collected in Vol. III of THE_COHENPEDIA_SERIES
Alle infos, dates and setlists: LEONARD COHEN – Live in Concert you can find in Vol. 3 of THE COHENPEDIA SERIES – ZEN UND POESIE
KW-33-2021: 9 years ago, Leonard Cohen live in Ghent – Old Ideas Tourstart – 5 soldout-concerts in Belgium. Here you find the setlists and some notes….
KW-33-2021: PERLA BTALLA heute im Interview via Internet-Radio: For the 25th anniversary celebration of Atlanta’s Breman Museum, one of the 20th century’s greatest songwriters, Leonard Cohen, takes the spotlight. This Sunday, singer-songwriter Perla Batalla will perform a special live stream program: “In The House Of Cohen,” in tribute to Cohen, her mentor, and tourmate over several years. Batalla had the privilege of uniquely close access to his process and his thoughts and feelings aboKW-33-2021: Perla Batalla Honors Mentor Leonard Cohen In Breman Museum Concert. Listen to her Interview about Leonard Cohen today. – How Perla Batalla fell into the world of Cohen’s music: “I was aware of Leonard Cohen kind of peripherally…. ‘Oh yeah, he’s the guy who in the 60’s had songs like ‘Suzanne,’ and I knew those from Judy Collins’ repertoire. And so I was very interested in the idea that this poet was now being celebrated again,” said Batalla. “Coincidentally, I get a phone call, ‘Would you like to audition for Leonard Cohen?’”
KW-32-2021: Ich werde so lange auf Tour gehen, wie Gott es zulässt, bis „der Rollstuhl rostet“ – I will go on tour for as long as God allows, until „the wheelchair rusted“ – sagte Leonard Cohen bei seinem Concert am 14.8.2012 im belgischen Ghent und stellte das Live-Debut von „Light As The Breeze“ vor.
Leonard Cohen sings , Light as the breeze for the first time live in Ghent Belgium on August 14th 2012
4. August 2012, Ghent, Belgium, Sint-Pietersplein (Second Night)
Set 1: Dance Me To The End Of Love/ Going Home/ The Future/ Bird On The Wire/ Everybody Knows/ Who By Fire/ Banjo/ Darkness/ Amen/ Come Healing/ I Can’t Forget/ Light As The Breeze*/ Different Sides/ Anthem/ Set 2: Tower Of Song/ Suzanne/ Crazy To Love You/ Heart With No Companion/ The Gypsy’s Wife/ The Partisan/ Democracy/ Coming Back To You (performed by the Webb Sisters)/ Alexandra Leaving (performed by Sharon Robinson)/ I’m Your Man/ Hallelujah/ Take This Waltz/ Encore 1: Marianne/ First We Take Manhattan/ Encore 2: Famous Blue Raincoat/ If It Be Your Will (performed by the Webb Sisters)/ Closing Time/ Encore 3: I Tried To Leave You/ Save The Last Dance For Me (The Drifters cover). Anmerkung/ Notes: *Although Leonard Cohen released „Light As The Breeze“ on „The Future“ album in 1992, he had never performed it in concert until nearly 20 years later at the 2012 Ghent concert. The performance – and the reaction of fans everywhere – was remarkable. – All in all: 33 songs; tourdebut of the new song „Banjo“.
Leonard Cohen’s son Adam and Cohen’s daughter Lorca joined this Ghent gig.
Spoken words:
I will go on tour for as long as God allows, until „the wheelchair rusted“.
Ich werde so lange auf Tour gehen, wie Gott es zulässt, bis „der Rollstuhl
rostet“
KW-32-2021: Diese Woche vor 9 Jahren startete Leonard Cohen seine letzte Welttournee im belgischen Ghent: die damals lautende „Old Ideas“-Worldtour führte ihn 2012/ 2013 nochmal rund um die Welt
KW-32-2021: Diese Woche vor 9 Jahren startete Leonard Cohen seine letzte Welttournee im belgischen Ghent: die damals lautende „Old Ideas“-Worldtour führte ihn 2012/ 2013 nochmal rund um die Welt
KW-32-2021: First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin – released one year before the wall came down
KW-32-2021: Am 13. August 1961 also heute vor 60 Jahren, begannen sie eine Mauer zu bauen…
Fotos: Christof Graf
KW-32-2021: Diese Woche vor 9 Jahren startete Leonard Cohen seine letzte Welttournee im belgischen Ghent: die damals lautende „Old Ideas“-Worldtour führte ihn 2912/ 2013 nochmal rund um die Welt
Quelle: ZEN & POESIE – The Cohenpedia Series – Vol. III