“ Onstage more than 2½ hours, Cohen certainly looked his age, a little stooped but dapper in a double-breasted suit and a fedora, which he removed to take a bow after each song. Cradling a hand-held microphone, he was able to move energetically around centre stage to interact with his band. He played two sets of eight songs each and four encores, including 1960s standards such as Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and So Long, Marianne as well as classics from his middle period in the 1980s and early 1990s such as Everybody Knows, Take This Waltz, Hallelujah and I’m Your Man.
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globeandmail.com: He was Fredericton’s man While this is a competent review, it lacks the verve and energy typically found in the Globe and Mail coverage of Leonard Cohen. I do think the above quote, which I extracted from the middle of the article, perhaps the best short summary of the staging of the night’s performance.
While the article notes that “there had been pre-show buzz that another musical collaborator, Cohen’s romantic partner, Anjani Thomas, would perform, but she did not appear,” Anjani’s decision to remain in LA to work on her own album was announced at least a week or two beforehand.
