Glen Hansard (of The Frames and The Com­mit­ments — read The Dork Report review) and Markéta Irglová recorded an album together called The Swell Sea­son, and now tour under the name. They fell in love while film­ing the excel­lent Once (read The Dork Report review), and are now a couple.

Inter­est­ingly, they got their Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly” out of the way right away, per­haps to avoid hav­ing the audi­ence call it out as a request over and over through­out the evening. Per­son­ally, I felt Hansard goofed off a bit too much, even dur­ing seri­ous songs like a new one I believe was called “Broke Down.”

Glen Hansard live in Cen­tral Park

Offi­cial band site: www.theswellseason.com

Buy Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová‘s album The Swell Sea­son from Ama­zon and kick back a few pen­nies to The Dork Report.

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