Keith James performs the songs of Leonard Cohen

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Keith James performs the songs of Leonard Cohen

An acclaimed concert tour.

Each song stripped back - desolate, naked and sensual

The most enigmatic, mysterious and sub textural songwriter the English speaking world has ever known. Revered and covered by the entire music community; Leonard Cohen’s exact sense of prose, his wry humour and his courage to wrestle with the unspoken. Forgiving human frailty with the brush of each line.
His recent spectacular world tour of stadium venues has been successful beyond belief but has not, with regret, exposed the solitary inner strength of the songs in their original perfect form.

Having now played over 200 of these critically acclaimed concerts across the UK, Keith James; with a lifetime reputation of performing in this exact way and an undying love of the pure song gives you a concert of this amazing material in the most intimate and sensitive way imaginable.

Also included are Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca and Leonard Cohen that Keith has set to music.

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‘Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear’ The Independent

‘Keith James has become a pillar of trust. A sublimely intimate and engaging voice’ Sunday Times

‘a sensitive and pleasingly understated delivery, all the better that the songs might speak for themselves’ Acoustic Magazine

‘an elegant and beautifully crafted reinterpretation of a great Artist’s words’ BBC Radio Scotland

‘certainly the UK’s most celebrated and evocative interpreter of golden music’ The Guardian

Music full of integrity, a contemporary work of art’ *****Maverick

‘All the tears of time are shed in a few brief lines’ Times Literary Supplement