In honour of CANADA DAY I plan to post a daily image of Canada and a link to a random Canadian location we have visited.
It's my birthday and the last day of July, so what a better way to wrap up 31 Days in Canada than with my favourite Canadian icon!!!
It so happened that last Sunday we attended a candlelight tribute to Leonard Cohen to kick off my birthday week!
The Fever Candlelight Concerts series in Toronto featured a 60-minute Tribute to Leonard Cohen performed by a live string quartet (two violins, one viola, and one cello) surrounded by thousands of candles at the Toronto Reference Library.
We've had the pleasure of seeing him twice in 2008 and 2009, in London ON and Toronto.
Candlelight Tribute to Leonard Cohen 2026
Lest We Forget recited by Leonard Cohen
And more Leonard Cohen here. Stamps and Zoomer
RIP First We Took Manhattan
Hallelujah various including Greece
In 2024 we watched Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2005 concert film by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. It is based on a January 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House titled "Came So Far for Beauty", which was presented by Sydney Festival under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, and produced by Hal Willner. Performers at this show included Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, The Handsome Family, Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Linda Thompson, Antony, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, with Cohen's former back-up singers Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen as special guests. The end of the film includes a performance by Leonard Cohen and U2, which was not recorded live, but filmed specifically for the film at the Slipper Room in New York in May 2005.
This was fantastic!!!! Here's a link to it on YouTube.
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