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Glen Hansard Is Here | Win The Swell Season: Live from the Artists… - In support of his new release, he'll be playing a short free show early this evening at Barnes & Noble Union Square, a small club show later on tonight at LPR , and then finally a big sold out show… Read More

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The Swell Season Biography

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The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album goes by the same name. Since their rise to prominence after starring in the 2007 film ''Once,'' they increasingly referred to themselves as "The Swell Season" in promotion of their performances until it became the formal name of their collaboration in 2008. (Notably, they still used their separate names when they contributed their cover of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" to the 2007 soundtrack of ''I'm Not There''.) From 2007 through 2010, a documentary film was made about Irglova and Hansard called ''The Swell Season''. The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2011 to positive reviews.

Wikipedia This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia.