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Keith James in Concert: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Keith James gives you a concert of Cohen’s amazing material in the most intimate and sensitive way imaginable. Don't miss him at the Tolbooth on Tuesday 21st May!

Keith James in Concert: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

About Keith James in Concert: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

21st May 2024
Doors 7pm
Tolbooth Stirling
Tolbooth Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE
£18 + bf
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THESE REMARKABLE SONGS – STRIPPED BACK, HONEST, NAKED AND SENSUAL.

With a lifetime reputation of performing in this exact way and an undying love of the ‘pure song’ Keith James gives you a concert of Cohen’s amazing material in the most intimate and sensitive way imaginable, exposing the solitary inner strength of his greatest songs in their original perfect form. Keith has performed an extensive tour of this concert in Theatres and Arts Centres across the UK, giving over 550 concerts to more than 200,000 people. This has proved to be one of the greatest honours in Keith James’ 40 year career in music.

Included in the concert are Cohen’s well-known songs: Famous Blue Raincoat, Sisters of Mercy, Suzanne, and Hallelujah alongside his rarer and profound writing such as If it be your will, Joan of Arc and Secret Life. Also included are Keith’s dramatic performances based on the work of Federico Garcia Lorca – Cohen’s greatest influence. Keith has also transcribed into song one of Leonard’s poems from his collection ‘Book of longing’ written whilst on retreat during the 1990s.

Enigmatic, mysterious and sub textural, songwriter Leonard Cohen was an unflinching character, with an exact sense of prose, wry humour and the courage to wrestle with the unspoken, forgiving human frailty and indulgence with the stroke of each word.

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