“A song only becomes what it is through witness,” says Glen Hansard, speaking from a makeshift stage in the back room of a small pub in the west of Dublin in November 2022. At the time it had been ...

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On April 21, Dublin-born singer/songwriter Glen Hansard celebrated turning 40 by taking over that city’s Whalen’s pub with his friends and family. There was music, conversation and a few rounds of ...

When Glen Hansard asked Markéta Irglová if she wanted to do “some gigs” in 2022, it had been 14 years since the duo released their second Swell Season album, Strict Joy, and went their separate ways, ...

Glen Hansard has always seemed like the tenacious type, having clearly distanced himself from the role he played at the helm of the excellent Irish ensemble known as the Frames, and later, his ...

Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of their Oscar-winning film Once on tour this summer and ahead of that they’ve just shared their first new The Swell Season ...

On the heels of a successful but brief 2022 North American tour, their first in nearly 11 years, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are back today (June 26) with their first new Swell Season song since ...

The Swell Season's Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard fell in love after they starred in the 2007 film "Once." They're no longer an item, but this duo is still making beautiful folk-rock together.

Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová's creative partnership led them to stunning success: Their acting debut in the 2007 film Once won them a best original song Oscar (for "Falling Slowly"), made ...

After releasing two one-off tracks as a precursor to their first Swell Season album in 16 years, Oscar-winning Once duo Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have confirmed details for the project, Forward ...

Oscar speeches come and go. Each year a new batch replaces the old with only a select few penetrating public consciousness enough to make a best-of reel. Fewer still can survive a replay without an ...

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