Melancholy singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is out on the road again after a 15-year touring hiatus. The Canadian poet and balladeer, who spent most of the '90s in a Zen Buddhist monastery in California, plays tonight at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, a genre-crossing concert series on the shores of Lake Geneva in the same city where David Bowie recorded "Heroes."
See bluesman Buddy Guy tomorrow, neo-soul duo Gnarls Barkley on Friday and an all-star tribute to Quincy Jones on July 14 at the festival, which continues through the 19.
Cohen kicked off his tour in Fredericton, New Brunswick in May and follows up his Montreux appearance with concerts in Lyon, Bruges and Amsterdam this weekend.
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[Photo of Cohen: My Chemical Toilet; photo of Montreux: yaspal]