“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 ...

The road to stardom for Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard and his band the ... milieu Hansard had literally grown up in. Hansard agreed to write songs for it, with the then-rising Irish actor ...

The lights are a distraction for Glen Hansard. Beard streaked with colour ... The mystery of his words is realised a few songs later, when he strikes up a delicately cast Bird of Sorrow.

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.