Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard appears in the following:

The Swell Season

Friday, December 04, 2009

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova turned their serendipitous meeting, love story, and music making in Dublin into the movie "Once." They even won an Oscar for their songwriting. No longer together romantically, they still collaborate musically and they stopped by Studio 360 to perform songs from ...

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Smackdown: The Love Song vs. The Breakup Song

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Few song topics resonate with listeners like romance and heartache. Today: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, stars of the 2007 film Once and the duo behind the Oscar-winning group The Swell Season, join us in The Greene Space to debate which is more powerful: the love song or the breakup ...

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Live From The Greene Space

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Love and heartbreak are two powerful weapons in a songwriter's arsenal. In a live broadcast from WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Space, we debate which is more potent: the love song or the breakup song. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, stars of the film Once and the duo behind the group ...

Glen Hansard

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The frontman of the popular Irish band The Frames is no stranger to the camera. Glen Hansard played a guitarist in a hard-scrabble working band in 1991's The Commitments. Now, he stars with Marketa Irglova in Once, a film about two musicians who write music that becomes the soundtrack to ...

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Back in the Saddle

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Gene Autry is the granddaddy of all cowboys and inspired the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Ringo Star. We talk to the author of a new biography of the Hollywood legend. Also: Donovan, the British bard who wrote such psychedelic era classics as "Mellow Yellow" and "Sunshine Superman" ...