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Stranger Songs
Tuesday October 7th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen

The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen was a concert presented at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden in March of 2017 – about four months after Leonard Cohen died at age 82. The primary artists were First Aid Kit – the Swedish sister duo of Johanna and Klara Söderbeg – along with a variety of other singers and actors performing songs and poems of Leonard Cohen.
Tired
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Suzanne
First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Sisters of Mercy
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Who By Fire/As the Mist Leaves No Scar
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Twelve O’Clock Chant
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Everybody Knows
Frida Hyvönen & First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Avalanche
Loney Dear & First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
The Future
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Jesper Lindell & First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
You Want It Darker
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
If It Be Your Will
First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
The Asthmatic
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Famous Blue Raincoat/Anthem
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Show Me the Place
Jesper Lindell & First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Hallelujah
Annika Norlin & First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Prayer for Messiah
Klara Söderberg - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Bird on the Wire
First Aid Kit - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Who By Fire (Reprise)/Letter to Marianne
First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
So Long, Marianne
First Aid Kit, Frida Hyvönen, Loney Dear, Jesper Lindell, Annika Norlin, Maja Francis, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
You'd Sing Too
Johanna Söderberg - Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Sony Sweden/Columbia Canadian
Tower of Song
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man - Columbia Canadian
Interactive CKCU
DL In The Sky With Diamonds
Really looking forward to this Mike. I don't think I saw or heard this tribute concert; just the one in Quebec.

2:35 PM, October 7th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
It's very different from the show in Montreal. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

2:37 PM, October 7th, 2025
Joanne Hurley
Great to hear all of these artists and their interpretations of Leonard Cohen's songs.

3:56 PM, October 7th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Joanne.

3:58 PM, October 7th, 2025
Candace
always a joy to hear First Aid Kit, no matter what they sing. Hi Mike!

4:03 PM, October 7th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Candace.. You must be very busy getting ready for funding drive..

4:07 PM, October 7th, 2025
Sandy, a lifetime Leonard Cohen fan
You Want It Darker: WOW! In fact, this concert is mesmerizing. Thanks.

4:13 PM, October 7th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Sandy.

4:15 PM, October 7th, 2025
PeterB
WONDERFUL renditions of Cohen's work! Really especially liking how cleanly and simply the words are "projected". Wonderful lyrics so clearly presented. Will be digging up this recording immediately. Thank you Mike.

4:46 PM, October 7th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks PeterB. When I first heard it, I knew it had to be presented in its entirety.

4:49 PM, October 7th, 2025