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- **Posted:** 2025-11-09T05:42:08.000+00:00
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Nine years to the week after Leonard Cohen died, the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival has returned to celebrate the words, music and spirit of the musician and poet and his legacy. 

Writer of “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne” and “So Long, Marianne” among many other songs, Cohen’s work was titanic in the music industry and remains so to this day. His legacy included induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the civilian award into the Order of Canada, alongside inspiring countless artists, including those who comprise San Francisco’s Conspiracy of Beards, a choir of men that sing the songs of Leonard Cohen.

The festival, hosted by San Francisco’s Conspiracy of Beards, features a wide array of artists and events ranging from concerts to film screenings. This year, the festival put on a concert of the music from “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” Robert Altman’s 1971 classic that prominently featured Cohen’s music, and is screening the film on Sunday.

In the week leading up to the screening, the festival hosted concerts featuring rhapsodic performances from Conspiracy of Beards and Perla Batalla, a musician and friend of the late Cohen. Clay Eugene Smith, curator of the festival and a singer in Conspiracy of Beards, has expanded the festival since its 2018 inception.

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✍️: August Hammel (augusttheeighth)
📸: Olivia Bañuelos

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