| October 17 |
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida |
Bank Atlantic Center |
"[T]he poet, musical philosopher and perpetual enigma enthralled an audience...
miraculously turning the cold commercial cavern of the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise
into a magical, transformative place." - The Miami Herald
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"[A] remarkable performance lasting more than three hours." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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"Better Than: Any singer you've ever heard before." - Miami New Times
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"Forget the notion of singing one song that people would remember.
Instead, think of the men whose musical catalogues people
will remember long after those stage lights go dim.
Leonard Cohen is one of those men." - SPIN
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| October 19 |
Tampa, Florida |
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center |
"[Cohen] held the audience mesmerized." - Creative Loafing
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| October 20 |
Atlanta, Georgia |
Fox Theatre |
"More than I can remember at a concert, I hung on every lyric,
and the spoken-word pieces were as good as the songs...
The whole band was phenomenal." - Paste Magazine
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"Dark, humble, irreverent, playful, and outrageously beautiful...
He was our man." - Creative Loafing
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| October 22 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Tower Theater |
| October 23 |
New York City, New York |
Madison Square Garden |
"[T]he crowd couldn't help being captivated...
Cohen's always been regarded as a master poet and storyteller, and...
even in his later career, Cohen's words and delivery is still
as engrossing as his four-decade-old songs." - Spinner
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"[Cohen's] voice today — deeper, wiser, more gravelly even than in his deep, wise, gravelly youth —
imparts something to those songs that they were always meant to have." - Entertainment Weekly
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| October 25 |
Cleveland, Ohio |
Allen Theatre |
"It was times like this that you appreciate when Cohen performs these songs,
these songs so often covered, beautifully I might add, by others.
But rarely if ever do they come out like they did last night...
No kidding — three hours might sound like a long time,
but the crowd would have stayed for five." - The Cleveland Scene
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| October 27 |
Columbus, Ohio |
Palace Theatre |
"'Bird On A Wire,'...included
two of the greatest guitar and sax solos heard this year...
The audience, which had given [Cohen] a standing ovation the moment he walked out,
was his congregation,
and I was just another member of his flock of loving sheep. Baa." - The Other Paper
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| October 29 |
Chicago, Illinois |
Rosemont Theatre |
| November 1 |
Asheville, North Carolina |
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium |
| November 3 |
Durham, North Carolina |
Durham Performing Arts Center |
"Cohen has assembled a crack nine-piece band littered with virtuosos...
But of course, there was no upstaging The Voice.
When he reached down to the lower reaches of his range to intone
"the wisdom of oooooold" during "In My Secret Life,"
he sounded like a true force of nature..." - The News & Observer
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| November 5 |
Nashville, Tennessee |
Tenn. Performing Arts Center Andrew Jackson Hall |
"Stylish, energetic and sharp, [Cohen] had us by the vertebrae the entire night." - Nashville Scene
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"In the second set, when Cohen introduced each member [of the band] for the second time,
the audience stood and cheered for several minutes.
A standing ovation... for the band." - Tennessean
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| November 7 |
St Louis, Missouri |
Fox Theatre |
"Though it was decades overdue,
Cohen's St. Louis debut was an absolute stunner." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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"[N]obody sings Cohen like Cohen." - Riverfront Times
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| November 9 |
Kansas City, Missouri |
The Midland by AMC |
"[Cohen] kept his sold-out crowd enraptured...
He gave them plenty to rave about, including a six-song encore...
[T]his show was...relentless in how good it was..." - The Kansas City Star
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| November 12 |
Las Vegas, Nevada |
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace |
"[A] joyous, spirited occasion." - Las Vegas Review-Journal
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"A superb nine-piece band, led by bassist Roscoe Beck...
provided a canvas for Cohen to paint his words upon." - Las Vegas Sun
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| November 13 |
San Jose, California |
HP Pavilion at San Jose |
"Sixteen years is a long time to wait for the chance to see
one of the most important artists of the last 50 years,
and the fans at HP responded to each and every song
like they were being offered a piece of pure pop-music gold.
And they were--not a single tune performed during the evening was anything less than fantastic." - LiveDaily
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