SHTETL on the SHORTWAVE’s LEONARD COHEN TRIBUTE @ BAGEL ETC…
A POP Montreal & CKUT co-presentation
(Stream this episode using the play button at the bottom of the page).
Featuring Katie Moore, L’iL Andy, Elisapie, Jason Rosenblatt of Shtreiml, Adam Waito of Adam and the Amethysts, Dear Criminals, and Richard Lahmy!
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. 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:
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Looking very forward to this! great show idea. look forward to hearing the musical guests. great poster. great idea. Shtetl, rock on.
Love the poster; love the café; Love Shtetl!…oh yeah, Love Leonard!
great poster, great food, great owners, and love Leonard!!!
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
favourite leonard Cohen song has to be So Long Marianne even though I have not heard it in many a year
Looking forward to show. Love the poster and the whole deal.
An ode for Cohen’s return home:
under his fedora and before his lox
the dark-suited man wears this city’s grin
even when he’s down in the town of the fallen angel.
and we’ve all tried to know his booth,
his mariannes and his tooth-footed clamp on the lights we can’t describe
but he can, he can and he’s our man and we are ladies and the gentlemen
and he is our curbside rabbi and he is our show.
My favourite Cohen memory in Montreal is a tie….
The first would have to be the night a lovely lady and I built a snowman outside of what we were told was once Leonard’s house off of Parc du Portugal. We sang his songs and toasted to him all night, dreaming he would come out to join us in our winter revelry.
The second is when two of my closest friends and I sat in my tiny old bedroom down in the plateau, three students crammed onto my small and curved bed reading Beautiful Losers out loud to each other. It took us three sessions over three days and a few bottles of wine, but we finished the book together.
Poster looks great! Show looks great! Would love to snag those tickets to see Leo!
When I was a kid, my sister n I did pupput shows on Prince Arthur and during the St Laurent street sales, and mr Cohen watched our show, put a dollar in the hat … that was the first time I saw him.
Leonard is my man. I’ve loved him since I was 15 and the love affair only grows deeper the more I learn, the more of his writing I read and the more I hear about him. I would love to see him in concert. It would make me so incredibly happy.
Favorite Leonard Cohen song: ‘PLEASE DON’T PASS ME BY’ – gives me chills every time I hear it. It represents everything that’s wrong in our world and the simplicity and depth of LC’s genius.
Have a great show!
Tamara,
My song: Chelsea Hotel #2. It does great things with D minor and F, two chords it’s hard to do good things with. Lloyd Cole’s cover made it new again.
Do I win?
Norm
One of many of my favorite Cohen’s songs : “There Is War” in the “New Skin for the Old Ceremony” album, just because it is what it is.
Amazing show! We had a really great time today. Thanks a bunch!
the second time i ever met cohen was in the late eighties. i was in the habit of going to different shuls in the area. it was shabbes, it was purim and i found myself at the beth sholom synagogue on the corner of clark and bagg streets. it’s an old shul built in the twenties by ukrainian jews. the inside is decorated with wall paintings depicting the zodiac for some reason.
the place was almost empty. i took a seat when i realized that the man sitting in front of me was cohen himself. should i approach him? should i just leave him alone? maybe it’s not him. then the rabbi asked for a cohen to start off the prayers. he rose. i knew then it was him.
i approached him when he came back to his seat. “are you leonard” i said.”yes” he answered. “my name is richard” we shook hands and went back to our praying.
after the service we all went down the old men , leonard and i to the basement where we had pickled herring and whisky. had a lively discussion on the music business to which a couple of the old guys eagerly took part. after a couple of drinks it was time to go.
i invited him to a purim party that night which he attended at my friend mark’s place on st. viateur. i
got to sing suzanne there while he was busy holding court.
eventually he had to leave. we shook hands and said goodbye .
I saw him walking into Bagels ect. a few years ago, knowing immediately who he was. The closest I’ve ever been to saying hallelujah.
Thank you for the show. It was very touching, especially the last song from Richard.
Here are Leonard Cohen covers by two of my favorite women artists, Nina Simone and Lhasa de la Sela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3B0iJQcXmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwaP_8Qk-o
Great show Tamara!
My vote is for Chelsea Hotel–Josh Ritter does a great cover, too.
Thanks to everyone for sharing your fav Cohen songs, sightings and memories. Shtetl has just drawn the winner. Congrats to “cheesy traditionalist” Emilie Owens. You’re going to see Leonard this Thursday night! Let’s hope he sings Hallelujah!
Hey Tam, that was an amazing show. Thanks! Is it me or is the cover of “In My Secret Life” missing from the stream? That was my favourite songs of the night, and one of my favourite interpretations of an LC song.
Oops, did I say night? That was one of my favourite songs during breakfast!