Showing posts with label Montreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montreal. Show all posts

A Montreal Tribute To Leonard Cohen - SHTETL on the SHORTWAVE @ BAGEL ETC - Nov 23.12

December 6, 2012

(From the Shtetl Montreal promotion for the Leonard Cohen broadcast tribute on Nov 23)

SHTETL on the SHORTWAVE’s  LEONARD COHEN TRIBUTE @ BAGEL ETC…
A POP Montreal & CKUT co-presentation

Shtetl celebrates Leonard Cohen a few days before he plays in Montreal. Tune in to hear Montreal musicians cover their favourite Cohen songs at a live taping of Shtetl on the Shortwave at Bagel Etc… One of Cohen’s hangouts on St-Laurent Blvd.  
 
Featuring Katie Moore, L’iL Andy, Elisapie, Jason Rosenblatt of Shtreiml, Adam Waito of Adam and the Amethysts, Dear Criminals, and Richard Lahmy!

And a big up to Rebecca Mary Hartz for her awesome job on the poster! Check her out.
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Shtetl et POP Montréal sont réunis pour célébrer Leonard Cohen, quelques jours avant son grand spectacle. Écoutez Shtetl on the Shortwave pour entendre live plusieurs musiciens locaux interprétant leurs chansons préférées du maestro, en direct de Bagel etc., resto presqu’aussi légendaire que Cohen lui-même!

Leonard Cohen clips used in the show came from these 3 interviews:

To hear the stream of this program, press play arrow


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  • Source: Shtetl Montreal website here. 
  • From their website, here is a delightdul presentation of the Yiddish word "Shtetl"  

Leonard Cohen - La Manic (Georges Dor cover) - Centre Bell, Montreal - 29-11-2012 (World premiere)

December 4, 2012

Video by Wirebirds (Henry Tengelsen)

Published on Dec 4, 2012 by
For the first time ever Leonard Cohen sang "La Manic" at one of his concerts.
A translation of the lyrics into English can be found here:
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-manic-manic.html
Background info: Leonard Cohen Performs Beloved French-Canadian Song "La Manic" by Georges Dor at Montreal Concert 2, Nov 29.12

Former Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe on CBC Podcast, Leonard Cohen Montreal Bell Centre Concert Nov 28.12

December 4, 2012
CBC Montreal Daybreak hosts Mike Finnerty & Jeanette Kelly, Gilles Duceppe

Mike Finnerty, host of CBC Montreal Daybreak introduced the first Leonard Cohen Concert at the Bell Centre on Nov 28.

The next day on his radio broadcast, he included a segment with CBC news reporter Jeanette Kelly speaking to several concertgoers at the Bell Centre about the "elegant, personable, growly voiced" Leonard Cohen.

It turns out that the first person Ms Kelly spoke to was Gilles Duceppe, former leader of the Bloc Quebecois party, who sounds like a big Leonard Cohen fan.

The other concertgoers were delightful, one man and a mother daughter duo. (I am thinking these were the best clips from everybody Kelly interviewed)

I extracted the two minute Leonard Cohen section from the CBC Montreal podcast.  At the end, Mike Finnerty made an interesting observation about a Gilles Duceppe remark.

CBC Montreal Daybreak Nov 29.12 (clip)


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Full CBC Montreal Daybreak podcast, Nov 29.12  here 

First Time Leonard Cohen is Guitarless Singing "Darkness" - Montreal Concert 1, Nov 28.12

December 2, 2012
Montreal DARKNESS Nov 28,12 (screenshot)

When I watched the Montreal first concert video of DARKNESS (by leonardcohenvideo), I was astounded to see Leonard Cohen performing the song without his guitar.

I am so used to seeing him live in concerts and in videos playing his guitar. And I really enjoy watching him fingerpicking his way through the song.

I am very attached to this song because I had the good fortune to be at the historic concert in Nashville when he premiered Darkness three years ago on November 5, 2009.

It took place in a beautiful theatre with lots of Cohenites I met through the Leonard Cohen Forum and a first row seat -thanks to Jarkko Arjatsalo and the Forum pre-sale.

And I had the good fortune again to be at the third anniversary of the song premiere at the recent LA Nokia concert on Nov 5,12 (yes that concert).

(l) Darkness premiere, Nashville Nov 5, 2009                          (r) Darkness, Los Angeles Nov 5, 2012

Guitarless in Montreal

I thought LC looked awkward without his guitar which actually distracted me.

I kept wondering why did he abandon his guitar?

He didn't seem to have any choreography for presenting the song or to paraphrase from the Montreal Gazette review of the Nov 28 concert, he didn't use any of his three default moves...
From: Montreal Gazette review concert 1 by Bernard Perusse

Performing before 12,600 devoted fans at the Bell Centre Wednesday night, Montreal’s favourite son worked his three default movesthe crouch, the jaunty two-step and the full kneel in soulful supplication – with good-natured grace.
He did not acknowledge Mitch Watkins' exquisite brooding bluesy interpretations. He did not doff his hat.  He did not bow to him. 

Neil Larsen was also not recognized for his several brilliant solos.

Now that was very unusual for Leonard Cohen who graciously and respectfully recognizes solos many times during a concert.

Perhaps, this was a last minute decision?

Was this not rehearsed?

Or as a very good Cohenite friend suggested:...perhaps the notes for that particular song require him to move his thumb against the strings a certain way and it caused a blister.  Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

Whatever the reason, I missed watching LC fingerpicking his way through Darkness.

It will be interesting to see how DARKNESS is performed for the remainder of this leg of the Old Ideas World Tour and beyond.

Darkness -Montreal Nov 28 - by leonardcohenvideo



This is my last Darkness video live in concert.
Darkness - Bromfield (Denver) Nov 3 - by Arlene Dick




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LA Nokia concert (Nov 5,12) report  on the Leonard Cohen Forum
Nashville (Nov 5,12) premiere report here

Leonard Cohen - La Manic (reprise/cover Georges Dor) Montreal Nov 29.12

November 30, 2012

Published on Nov 30, 2012 by

Leonard Cohen - La Manic (reprise/cover Georges Dor)
Live in Montreal - Bell Center - Nov 29, 2012

Background info: Leonard Cohen Performs Beloved French-Canadian Song "La Manic" by Georges Dor at Montreal Concert 2, Nov 29.12

Leonard Cohen chante La Manic (Montréal) 29 novembre 2012

November 29, 2012


Published on Nov 29, 2012 by MrYvesma

Au Centre Bell de Montréal - le jeudi 20 novembre 2012, Leonard Cohen a fait plaisir au publique québécois en lui offrant une chanson du folklore québécois; La Manic de Georges Dor.

Background info: Leonard Cohen Performs Beloved French-Canadian Song "La Manic" by Georges Dor at Montreal Concert 2, Nov 29.12

Leonard Cohen Performs Beloved French-Canadian Song "La Manic" by Georges Dor at Montreal Concert 2, Nov 29.12

November 29, 2012

Tonight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Leonard Cohen delighted the home crowd at his second concert with a cover of Georges Dor's La Manic, a beloved French-Canadian song.

I observed LC rehearsing this song with the band when Leslie Wener and I were at the Austin second concert soundcheck. I didn't recognize it at the time, but guessed he was readying it for Montreal and Quebec City.  My first reaction, wow, he's already memorized at least 50 songs for this tour and now he's memorized a very long song with French lyrics.  And he sang it with such ease at the soundcheck.  He certainly looked like he was enjoying every take "from the top".
Georges Dor (March 10, 1931 - July 24, 2001) (born Georges-Henri Dore) was a Québécois author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director.
Born in Drummondville, Dor undertook a career in radio as a disk jockey and news director. He worked for Radio-Canada, the national Canadian broadcaster, where he became a director for the Evening News. He wrote poems for many years, but in 1964 he was encouraged by friends to compete in an amateur singing competition. He began singing professionally in early 1965, and released his first album in 1966. One of the songs from this album, his composition "La Manic", whose lyrics were a love letter written by a construction worker on the Manicouagan power project, became the most successful record ever by a Quebec chansonnier.

He continued to perform as a singer until 1972, and to record until 1978. After that he worked mainly in the theatre and in television, producing and writing plays and téléromans. He also wrote two novels and published several collections of poetry, among other artistic and critical accomplishments
La Manic The Manic (Lyrics translate)


Si tu savais comme on s'ennuie à la Manic If only you knew how long the time is at Manic
Tu m'écrirais bien plus souvent à la Manicouagan You'd write way more often, to the Manicouagan
Parfois je pense à toi si fort Sometimes I think so hard about you
Je récrée ton âme et ton corps That I recreate your soul and your body
Je te regarde et m'émerveille I look at you and I am filled with wonder
Je me prolonge en toi I throw myself into you
Comme le fleuve dans la mer Just like the river into the sea
Et la fleur dans l'abeille And the flower into the bee


Que deviennent quand j'suis pas là mon bel amour My beautiful lover, what do your silken forehead
Ton front doux comme fine soie et tes yeux de velours And your velvet eyes become, when I am not there
Te tournes-tu vers la côte nord Do you turn towards the Côte-Nord
Pour voir un peu pour voir encore To see a little, to see some more
Ma main qui te fait signe d'attendre My hand signalling you to wait
Soir et matin je tends les bras At twilight and at dawn, I reach out
Je te rejoins où que tu sois I meet you wherever you may be
Et je te garde And I keep you


Dis-moi c'qui s'passe à Trois-Rivières et à Québec Tell me what's going on in Trois-Rivières and in Quebec City
Là où la vie a tant à faire et tout c'qu'on fait avec Where there's so much to do, and eveything we do with it
Dis-moi c'qui s'passe à Montréal Tell me what's going on in Montreal
Dans les rues sales et transversales In the dirty side streets
Où tu es toujours la plus belle Where you're always the more beautiful
Car la laideur ne t'atteint pas Because ugliness can't get to you
Toi que j'aimerai jusqu'au trépas You, who I'll love until I pass away
Mon éternelle My eternal


Nous autres on fait les fanfarons à coeur de jour We boast around all day long
Mais on est tous de bons larrons cloués à leurs amours But we're all good guys faithful to their loves
Y'en a qui jouent de la guitare Some play guitar
D'autres qui jouent d'l'accordéon Others play accordion
Pour passer l'temps quand y'est trop long To pass time, when the time is long
Mais moi je joue de mes amours But me, I play of my love
Et je danse en disant ton nom And I dance, saying your name
Tellement je t'aime Because I love you so much


Si tu savais comme on s'ennuie à la Manic If only you knew how long the time is at Manic
Tu m'écrirais bien plus souvent à la Manicouagan You'd write way more often, to the Manicouagan
Si t'as pas grand chose à me dire If you don't have much to tell me
Écris cent fois les mots «Je t'aime» Write the words 'I love you' a hundred times
Ça fera le plus beau des poèmes It will be the most beautiful of poems
Je le lirai cent fois I'll read it a hundred times
Cent fois cent fois c'est pas beaucoup A hundred times, a hundred times are not a lot
Pour ceux qui s'aiment For those who are in love


Si tu savais comme on s'ennuie If only you knew how long the time is
À la Manic At Manic
Tu m'écrirais bien plus souvent You'd write way more often
À la Manicouagan To the Manicouagan

LC quoted from this song in his moving acceptance speech at the 2006 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. The video clip is cued to start at that point. Be sure to watch his whole acceptance speech and have your tissues ready, especially when LC wipes away his own tears.




Here is a video of Georges Dor performing "La Manic"



Christine Long of CTV leaked the Montreal Nov 28 setlist prior to the concert with a spoiler alert, for shame.

"La Manic" was included in small letters towards the end of the concert. but was not performed at the first concert.


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  • Georges Dor bio from Youtube description here
  • La Manic lyrics from LyricsMania here
  • Thanks go to Joe Way for remembering LC's acceptance speech at the CSHF
  • CSHF video uploaded by ljw2919
  • Georges Dor video uploaded by JackRetro
Update: Nov 29,12 Concert video: Leonard Cohen chante La Manic (Montréal) 29 novembre 2012 
Update 2: Concert video Leonard Cohen - La Manic (reprise/cover Georges Dor) Montreal Nov 29.12
Update 3: Concert video Leonard Cohen - La Manic (Georges Dor cover) - Centre Bell, Montreal - 29-11-2012 (World premiere)
Update 4:  Quebec City concert video Leonard Cohen - La Manic (Georges Dor cover) - Colisèe Pepsi, Quebec City - 02-12-2012
Update 5: Ottawa Concert video Leonard Cohen - Ottawa Dec 7, 2012 - La Manic

Casterbridge Cohen, "Gamblin' Man," Leonard Cohen FRIEND, Michael Bromfield Photos from Montreal Concert, Nov 28.12

November 29, 2012
Michael Bromfield 
The Master at work-Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson and the Webb Sisters Montreal Nov 28 2012


No matter which name he is known by, and he has a few, Michael Bromfield has the expertise and midas touch for everything he does - travel business, trekking in exotic places, gambling successfully in Las Vegas and photography. 

Arlene & Michael 2010 Caesars Palace
I first met Michael at a 2009 Leonard Cohen concert meet-up in Las Vegas and there again in 2010 . He is quite a raconteur and I always enjoy his stories. He has shared his many outstanding photographs from a number of Leonard Cohen concerts. Exquiste collection.

As a matter of fact, he opened his own photgraphy gallery displaying his works from many adventures Global Images Gallery.

He donates 10% of sales to charities

From a recent article in a Dorset, UK publication:

He has now opened the Global Images Gallery in the former Booklore building, on Hound Street, to feature his own photographs taken during his travels around the world.

The gallery is free to enter and 10 per cent of all sales will be donated to a dedicated cause.

Mr Bromfield said: "I wanted to turn my focus to my ambitions, which are writing and photography, and buy my own gallery.

"I saw the property up for sale and thought it was the perfect choice.

"My close friend, a photographer, thought I was mad, as it is not something you go into to make a profit.

"But this was more about devoting time to something I was passionate about.

"When I returned from travelling I always used to invite friends round to see the photos. I would give a short talk about the places we visited and ask them to donate a little money for charity too, which is what I'm doing here."

Mr Bromfield's first three exhibitions include pictures of Katmandu and Lhasa, Antarctica and, his particular passion, iconic mountains.

He has chosen to first donate to Community Action Nepal, a mountaineers' charity founded by Doug Scott.

Mr Bromfield said: "The Nepalese Sherpas live in the mountain regions in extremely poor communities.
"They help you to climb the mountains and I realised donating to this charity would be a way that I could help them."

A keen writer, he has previously had a book serialised by the Western Gazette about Yeovil Town Football club, and is now working on a guide to becoming an entrepreneur and another based on articles about his trips around the world.

He now divides his time between his house in Stowell, a home in Canada where his wife originally comes from, and an apartment in Switzerland.

Mr Bromfield is already planning forthcoming exhibitions much closer to home to include coverage of next year's Glastonbury Festival.
For the full aricle, click here
Michael Bromfield
Leonard Cohen and an admiring Sharon Robinson Nov 28 2012

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  • On Twitter, Michael Bromfield is known as "notesfromanomad"
  • "Casterbridge Cohen" - on the Leonard Cohen Forum
  • "Ganblin' Man" - my name for him after hearing about his successful run in Las Vegas


Lift Off - Leonard Cohen Concert at Bell Centre, Montreal 11.28.12

November 28, 2012


Posted by Webpresse.ca on twitter

Montreal Audience Waits Excitedly For Hometown Favourite Leonard Cohen at Bell Centre Nov 28,12

November 28, 2012
Laura Tudoroiu (twitter)

Yolande Villemare (twitter)

flaviefreedom (twitter)
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Timeline: approx 20 minutes to show time