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Budapest Jazz Club to host 11th World Leonard Cohen Festival on August 4th and 5th

Performers will give concerts, participate in audience discussions and sign autographs and memorabilia for fans

The Budapest Jazz Club will host the 11th World Leonard Cohen Festival on August 4th and 5th.

The event is expected to attract acts and hundreds of visitors from over 20 countries around the world.

Performers will give concerts, participate in audience discussions and sign autographs and memorabilia for fans.

Hungarian performers will include Mariann Falusi, the Sarik Péter Trio and the Budapest Klezmer Band.

The World Leonard Cohen Festival is held every second year. Cohen, a Canadian poet, songwriter and singer, was born in 1934 and died in 2016. His first hit was “Suzanne”, followed by Hallelujah, So long, Marianne! and Democracy.