Enter to Win a Pair of Tix to a Night of Your Choice at the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival

Enter to Win a Pair of Tix to One Night of Your Choice at the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival!

Join San Francisco’s poets, artists, singers and musicians for the 2024 San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival at the historic Swedish American Hall and Café du Nord in the heart of the Castro. Experience new and old works of poetry and music, classic Cohen songs like “Everybody Knows,” performed by Cohen’s primary collaborator, Sharon Robinson, and lesser-known pieces like “Democracy,” written with the fall of the Berlin Wall and especially relevant today.

The three-night festival begins on November 8 with works inspired by, loved by, and left behind by Cohen and performed by the city’s poets, including 2024 Poet Laureate Genny Lim, Alejandro Murguía, Tess Taylor, and Gregory Pond, and local musicians Middle Harbor Songbirds, Ruby Lee Hill, Slow Yoda, and the female choir, Conspiracy of Venus.

On November 9, a night of Cohen classics and little-known gems will be performed by the renowned acapella male choir and hosts of the festival, Conspiracy of Beards, and ISMAY, a Folk/American music project by Avery Hellman, the granddaughter of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival founder Warren Hellman. The evening will also feature special guest artists.

The final night, November 10, San Francisco-born Sharon Robinson – Grammy-winning songwriter, singer, music producer and Leonard Cohen’s longtime co-collaborator and back-up singer - presents “The Words and the Music: My Time with Leonard Cohen,” her multi-media one-woman show that has captivated audiences in the United States and Canada

Be a part of the city’s creative community in rediscovering Leonard Cohen, who continues to provide the soundtrack of our lives.