In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth.

The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music.

Special correspondent Mike Surrey went to the annual Leonard Cohen Festival recently to hear why.

It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Yeah, I've heard that there was a secret chord that David played and it please the Lord.

Ah, but you don't really care for music, do you?

Singer, poet, lover, monk. Leonard Cohen still very much an enigma for its long time

faithful following and a new generation of converts just now discovering it.

Hey, welcome to the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival.

Are we quite busy here?

Since Leonard Cohen's death in 2016, there's been no shortage of tribute shows,

music compilations, and interpretations of his work.

This three-day annual San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival features his music and his poetry

by local musicians and poets, many of whom never

got to experience him in life. After Leonard passed, I think people are eager to keep his memory

alive and the passion that he brought to his words and poetry and music. And it's a little

cathartic to revisit it annually. There's so much comedy in what he says.

Clay Eugene Smith started the festival in 2018,

soon after Leonard Cohen's death at age 80.

He also performs in it with an a cappella men's chorus,

sporting Cohen's signature fedoras and suits, whose repertoire

is exclusively Leonard Cohen music.

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