![]() ![]() Aside from feeling that Cohen, who had retreated to a Zen monastery in California, had more to offer as a performer, there was a pressing practical reason.Ĭohen had discovered he had a critical financial problem his manager would eventually be convicted of embezzling his fortune and he was broke. Reynolds, creator of the Electric Picnic, who had got to know Cohen, encouraged the singer to resume touring. “No airs, no arrogance, just a desire to please his ‘friends’, that’s how he referred to his fans, as his friends. Walsh described the natural grace and humility of the man who had arrived at Lissadell on the morning of the first concert, July 31st, 2010, in a 20-seater mini-bus. But as soon as he said, 'Well, this is a state secret, I am thinking about Leonard Cohen, I've already spoken with him and he likes the idea', that made it completely different, I knew we had to do it." He mentioned July and I thought,: 'Oh no, the height of summer, the house and grounds will have to be closed'. "When the concert promoter, John Reynolds, a close friend of ours, first raised the idea of a concert at Lissadell with me, I was wary. Of that there is no doubt.Įdward Walsh, current owner of the house, saddened by the legendary singer's death, recalls how the two dream concerts became a reality. It was his life-long love of the poetry of Yeats which drew Leonard Cohen to perform at Lissadell House in Co Sligo in 2010. ![]()
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