To the best of my memories, I'm not too sure about the order:
Start with Chris Botti playing Hallelujah from a nearby roof, then projection of LC singing it on giant screens.
Zachary Richard : Bird On A Wire
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Partisan.
Steven Page: A Singer Must Die.
Adam Cohen: Take This Waltz
Adam Cohen with Serena Ryder: Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
Serena Ryder: Sisters Of Mercy
Madeleine Peyroux: Dance Me To The End Of Love
Katie Melua: In My Secret Life
Lhasa de Sela with Thomas Hellman: So Long Marianne
Lhasa de Sela: Who By Fire
Steven Page with Joe Lovano at the saxophone: Memories
Chris Botti (trumpet): A Thousand Kisses Deep with the words projected in the back of the stage
Garou : Everybody Knows
Michel Pagliaro: The Future
Giant screen: Leonard Cohen singing Closing Time
Salute from all the artists followed by Leonard Cohen singing Suzanne on giant screens.
The artists were excellent and most seemed to be very honored to play tribute to the great Leonard Cohen. I became a Steven Page fan last night after his beautiful interpretation of
A Singer Must Die and an amazing
Memories with Joe Lovano, hot!
I also particularly liked Madeleine Peyroux' Billie Holiday-esque version of
Dance Me To The End Of Love, Katie Melua and of course our good old Pag who was true to his rocker self. I also liked hearing Buffy Sainte-Marie sing
The Partisan, coming from a First Nation person, it took a whole new dimension. And Chris Botti's
A Thousand Kisses Deep was something else. My friend said :'This guy is the Jeff Buckley of the trumpet!'
But, I was really not impressed with Garou who couldn't sing a single verse without looking at the monitor. (Oh, sorry, he knew Everybody knows, everybody knows, everybody knows) One time, when he was too busy posing for a camera, he even was unable to finish one line.

Shameful. I guess it's common for people to take a peep at the monitor once in a while, to make sure that they don't make mistakes, but this was just too much. Artists who were playing in front of such a large crowd for the first time and who would have had many reasons to be nervous did much better than him. I know that the crowd liked him and that many will disagree with me but hey, that's life.
All in all, the show was great and it was great to see our LC image projected on the buildings of downtown Montreal.
