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Lovely news gentle folk,

The Australian Live Performance Awards night has just been held (Monday 27th July) at the Sydney Opera house and Leonard's magnificent outdoor concert at Sandalford Winery in Perth, was judged the best international concert. I'm still running into new people who tell me they and their friends thought it was the best concert they had ever seen, they're right.

At yesterday evenings ceremony of The Helpmann Awards
Leonard was awarded:
Best International Contemporary Concert
Leonard Cohen World Tour 2009
The Frontier Touring Company

These awards cover all major live theater and are sort of the Aussie equivalent to the American Tony Awards/ English BAFTA

The news story is here:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/WI ... s_20090727

The 2009 Helpmann Awards Ceremony was held on Monday 27 July at 6.30pm at Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, whilst the After Party was held at The Argyle in The Rocks. Jonathan Biggins and Julia Zemiro, both acclaimed actors, broadcasters and comedians, jointly MC'd the Awards Ceremony. The Ceremony included performances by the casts of Avenue Q, Candy Man, Chicago, Jerry Springer - The Opera, Shane Warne - The Musical, 7 Fingers and Wicked, as well as performances from The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and Opera Australia.

2009 HELPMANN AWARDS WINNERS:
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Best International Contemporary Concert
Leonard Cohen World Tour 2009
The Frontier Touring Company

This award was an even more significant achievement than you might initially think, when you take into account that he was up against these other tour nominees: Neil Young; Grace Jones and Coldplay!

Cheers,
Andrew

Greg Ross wrote:Lovely news gentle folk,

The Australian Live Performance Awards night has just been held (Monday 27th July) at the Sydney Opera house and Leonard's magnificent outdoor concert at Sandalford Winery in Perth, was judged the best international concert. I'm still running into new people who tell me they and their friends thought it was the best concert they had ever seen, they're right.

Not quite, Greg. It was not the Perth location, but the concert programme and delivery itself, performed at 8 locations and 10 times in Australia (including Sandalford Winery) that won Australia's ' best international concert' award. The press cutting you've shared is just your local West Aus paper localising the award and making it relevant to local readers.
A quick perusal of the feedback for all 10 concerts shows fans saying the particular performance they attended was the best concert they had ever seen!
In other words, all fans at all Aussie performances can say they saw Australia's best international concert in 2009.

Clem (an Aussie living in London)
London 14 nov; Vancouver 19 april; Antwerp 4 july; Weybridge, London 11july