“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 ...

Part performance, part catharsis, the singer-songwriter turns personal tragedy into a performance for the ages with emphatic brilliance and raw power. The lights are a distraction for Glen Hansard.

Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová came to prominence together starring in the 2007 film Once and winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song with their composition “Falling Slowly” in 2008.