Glen Hansard#Awards

Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets.{{cite magazine|last=Divola|first=Barry|title='Once' in a Lifetime|url=https://ew.com/article/2007/08/29/once-star-glen-hansard-gets-personal/|magazine=EW.com|date=29 August 2007|access-date=24 August 2011}} He formed his own band The Frames in 1990, and the group have been gigging regularly in Ireland since. Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role because he felt it distracted him from his music career.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.{{Cite web |date=20 February 2003 |title=New Irish music series hits N2 |website=RTÉ.ie |publisher=RTÉ |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2003/0220/398742-othervoices/ |language=en}}

On 22 April 2006, he released his first album without The Frames, The Swell Season, on Overcoat Recordings in collaboration with Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Markéta Irglová, Marja Tuhkanen from Finland on violin and viola, and Bertrand Galen from France on cello. Hansard also spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for the music-infused Irish film Once, in which Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglová an immigrant street vendor. The film had its United States premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and received the Festival's World Cinema Audience Award.

Hansard had recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the film I'm Not There in 2007. In 2009, Hansard said that he and Irglova were no longer romantically linked, and that they are now "good friends".{{cite news|author=Master of excellence|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/falling-slowly-out-of-love-1614444.html|title=falling slowly ... out of love|publisher=Independent.ie|date=26 January 2009|access-date=12 September 2009}}

Aside from his projects with The Frames and Irglová, Hansard also took part as a member of the band on the 2006 Oxfam charity album, The Cake Sale. Hansard has recorded several cover songs, both alone and with band member Colm Mac Con Iomaire, for the Today FM discs Even Better than the Real Thing. Songs that he has recorded include Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1 and Britney Spears' "Everytime" on Vol. 2.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

He voiced a role on an episode ("In the Name of the Grandfather") on The Simpsons as an Irish busker.{{Citation|last1=Sosa|first1=Ralph|title=In the Name of the Grandfather|date=17 March 2009|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291159/|type=Animation, Comedy|others=Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith|publisher=Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television|access-date=2021-01-18|last2=Anderson|first2=Mike B.}} A new album of original songs recorded as The Swell Season with Markéta Irglová and entitled Strict Joy was released on 27 October 2009 on the ANTI- record label.{{cite web|url=http://consequence.net/2009/07/10/the-swell-season-shares-a-bit-of-strict-joy|publisher=consequence.net|title=The Swell Season shares a bit of Strict Joy|author=Young, Alex|date=10 July 2009|access-date=25 July 2009}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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In the summer of 2011, he joined Eddie Vedder on his American solo tour in support of Vedder's solo album, Ukulele Songs. He played a solo concert at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Guitar Heroes exhibit in New York City in May 2011{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/spectrum/2011/glen-hansard|title=Glen Hansard and Guitar Heroes|date=May 2011|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date=12 December 2011}} and on Cape Cod at the Cape Cinema on 17 June.{{cite news|url=http://www.capecodtoday.com/calendar-2011-06-17-event-19349.htm |title=An Evening with Glen Hansard |date=17 June 2011 |publisher=Cape Cod Today |access-date=12 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724101028/http://www.capecodtoday.com/calendar-2011-06-17-event-19349.htm |archive-date=24 July 2012 }}

In September 2011, he played at Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary Festival PJ20 at the Alpine Valley Theatre outside of East Troy, Wisconsin. Hansard plays several guitars, including a very recognisable battered Takamine NP15 acoustic guitar (even sporting a large hole), which he calls "The Horse".{{cite web|title=The Horse |url=http://www.takamine.com/hwg/guitar/glen_hansard |publisher=Takamine Guitars |access-date=24 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726033359/http://www.takamine.com/hwg/guitar/glen_hansard |archive-date=26 July 2012 }}

In a November 2011 interview{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/a-pomegranate-embilly-jac_b_1166878.html|work=Huffington Post|first=Mike|last=Ragogna|title=A Pomegranate & Billy Jack: Conversations with Once's Marketa Irglova and honeyhoney|date=23 December 2011}} in The Huffington Post with Irglova, it was revealed that Hansard was preparing a solo album and that there was a very possible third release from The Swell Season. This solo album was later revealed to be titled Rhythm and Repose.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/folkpopmusic/posts/389864471034926|title=Folk Pop Music – Glen Hansard Announces Solo Debut, Rhythm...|publisher=Facebook|access-date=24 October 2015}}

American Songwriter included Hansard's "Love Don't Leave Me Waiting" on its The Muse July Sampler.{{cite web|title=Free Download: The Muse July Sampler|date=26 June 2012 |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/06/free-download-the-muse-july-sampler/|publisher=American Songwriter|access-date=27 June 2012}} Another song of his featured in a film soundtrack is This Gift, which appears in The Odd Life of Timothy Green.{{Citation|title=The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) – IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462769/soundtrack|access-date=2021-01-18}}

Hansard sang the song "Take the Heartland" on the soundtrack for the 2012 film The Hunger Games. Another song he wrote, "Come Away to the Water", is featured on the soundtrack, but is covered by Maroon 5 and Rozzi Crane.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} Hansard can be found singing "Come Away to the Water" on the deluxe edition of his first solo album Rhythm and Repose. He guest-starred in an episode of the TV series, Parenthood, playing himself. In the episode, "Trouble in Candyland", he performed "High Hope", a single from his solo debut album Rhythm and Repose.{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/glen-hansard-to-guest-star-on-parenthood-tonight-1798234927|title=Glen Hansard to guest star on Parenthood tonight|newspaper=The A.V. Club|access-date=5 December 2012}} In 2015, Hansard and Lisa Hannigan recorded a song, "On Love", for the soundtrack for the 2014 film Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.{{cite web|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2015/07/31/kahlil-gibrans-the-prophet-soundtrack-released/|title='Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet' Soundtrack Released|date=31 July 2015|access-date=12 September 2019|website=Film Music Reporter}} Hansard sang Coyote at the Joni Mitchell 75th birthday concert Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration in Los Angeles in December 2018.

In 2022, he toured with Eddie Vedder.{{cite web | url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/eddie-vedder-announces-2022-us-tour-w-glen-hansard/ | title=Eddie Vedder announces 2022 US tour w/ Glen Hansard | date=December 2021 }} In October he recorded "Take Heart", featuring Marketa Irglova, Bono and Ukrainian refugees in response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/glen-hansard-unites-with-marketa-irglova-and-ukrainian-refugees-on-new-song-take-heart|title=Glen Hansard unites with Markéta Irglová and Ukrainian refugees on new song "Take Heart"|website=The Line of Best Fit}}

In December 2023, Hansard performed a rendition of "Fairytale of New York" alongside Lisa O'Neill backed by The Pogues at Shane MacGowan's funeral service held in St Mary's of the Rosary Catholic Church, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland. They sang the roles of the 1987 original hit recording by MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl.{{cite AV media |url=https://www.rte.ie/video/id/8926/ |date=8 December 2023 |access-date=11 December 2023 |title='Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral |website=RTÉ.ie |publisher=RTÉ}}[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/08/shane-macgowan-funeral-dublin/ Shane MacGowan funeral: Johnny Depp and Bob Geldof among star-studded congregation] The Telegraph, 8 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023

Hansard has remarked about his musical influences: "In my house, when I was a kid, there was the holy trinity, which was Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, and Bob Dylan with Bob sitting centre."{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/dylan-support-slot-a-dream-come-true/2007/08/15/1186857582503.html|title=Dylan support slot a dream come true|newspaper=Smh.com.au|date=15 July 2007|access-date=12 September 2009}} Hansard and The Frames toured as the support act for Bob Dylan in Australia and New Zealand in August 2007 and Hansard often performs Van Morrison's songs in concert. Two such songs include "Into the Mystic", and "And the Healing Has Begun" which were included on the collector's edition of the soundtrack for the film Once.

Hansard is a devotee of Krishna and performed for the 80th birthday of Swami Prabhupada in London, staying at a manor donated to the Hare Krishna movement by The Beatles' George Harrison, who was a Hare Krishna devotee.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Once-star-becomes-a-Hare-Krishna-.html#ixzz2Xkumh367|title="Once" star becomes a Hare Krishna|date=April 2009 |publisher=IrishCentral.com|access-date=24 October 2015}} In July 2013, he sang with Bruce Springsteen at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, Ireland. In July 2015, he performed "Raglan Road" with Ed Sheeran in Croke Park, Dublin.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

During the promotional tour for Once, Hansard and Irglová began dating.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/fashion/24nite.html|title=Life imitating art|author=Jamie Diamond|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 February 2008|access-date=24 February 2008}} Said Hansard about his relationship with Irglova: "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid".{{cite news|last=Spines|first=Christine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035285_20035331_20042740,00.html|title='Once' a Hero|publisher=Ew.com|date=22 June 2007|access-date=12 September 2009|archive-date=16 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516004823/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035285_20035331_20042740,00.html|url-status=dead}} The relationship ended after two years.{{cite news|url=https://www.timeout.com/music/the-hot-seat-glen-hansard-and-marketa-irglova|title=The Hot Seat: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová|publisher=timeout.com|date=26 July 2010|access-date=1 May 2023}}

In 2008, Hansard took a four-week filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy.{{cite web|url=http://nyfa.tumblr.com/post/6362447025/academy-award-winning-new-york-film-academy |title=Academy Award Winning New York Film Academy |website=Nyfa.tumblr.com |date=9 June 2011 |access-date=2017-01-22}}

Hansard used to live at 21 Bleecker Street in Noho, New York City.{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Stephen |title=For His 'Roll On Slow' Video, Glen Hansard's New York All-Nighter Gets Animated |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/578579125/for-his-roll-on-slow-video-glen-hansards-new-york-all-nighter-gets-animated |work=NPR |date=17 January 2018 |language=en}}

In 2016, Hansard was a member of the Home Sweet Home Group, a coalition of activists and homeless people.[http://www.thejournal.ie/apollo-house-6-3174714-Jan2017/ "Home Sweet Home co-founder has multiple convictions for robbery, kidnap and aggravated burglary"] (7 January 2017). thejournal.ie. Retrieved 16 July 2019. The group broke into Apollo House in Dublin and illegally occupied it.{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/occupy-nama-city-property-taken-over-to-house-homeless-1.2907854|title=Occupy Nama: City property taken over to house homeless|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2017-03-21|language=en-US}} They eventually had to vacate the premises due to a High Court ruling.{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/home-sweet-home-ordered-to-vacate-apollo-house-next-month-1.2914947|title=Home Sweet Home ordered to vacate Apollo House next month|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2017-03-21|language=en-US}}

His partner, poet Maire Saaritsa, gave birth to their first child, a boy named Christy, in October 2022. Hansard and Saaritsa planned to marry at the end of 2022.{{cite news|last=Costigan|first=Emma|url=https://goss.ie/showbiz/glen-hansard-reveals-hes-set-to-tie-the-knot-in-two-weeks-321415|title=Glen Hansard reveals he's set to tie-the-knot in two weeks|publisher=goss.ie|date=16 Dec 2022|access-date=1 May 2023}} The couple reside in both Ireland and Helsinki.{{cite news |last1=Clayton-Lea |first1=Tony |title=Glen Hansard on fatherhood at 52: ‘I can’t believe I didn’t do it before now’ |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/10/14/glen-hansard-on-fatherhood-i-cant-believe-i-didnt-do-it-before-now-isnt-it-true-that-when-the-student-is-ready-the-teacher-appears/#:~:text=A%20song%20that%20you%20feel,we're%20finding%20out.%E2%80%9D |access-date=6 February 2025}}

• This Gift (2012) (promo)
• High Hope (2012) (promo)
• Bird of Sorrow (2012) (promo)
• Love Don't Leave Me Waiting (2012) (promo)
• Drive All Night EP (November 2013)
• It Was Triumph We Once Proposed...Songs of Jason Molina EP (17 March 2015)
• Winning Streak (30 June 2015)
• Lowly Deserter (November 2015) – (Sky Stone & Records)
• A Season on the Line EP (February 2016)
• Cold Comfort (June 2020)

{{Main|The Frames#Discography}}

• Another Love Song (1991)
• Fitzcarraldo (1995)
• Dance the Devil (1999)
• For the Birds (2001)
• Breadcrumb Trail (2002)
• Burn the Maps (2004)
• The Cost (2006)
• Longitude (2015)

{{Main|The Swell Season discography}}

• The Swell Season (2006)
• Once: Music from the Motion Picture (2007)
• Strict Joy (2009)

• The Commitments (1991)
• Once (2007)
• Austin City Limits (2008)
• The Simpsons (2009 episode: "In the Name of the Grandfather"){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291159/|title="The Simpsons" In the Name of the Grandfather|publisher=IMDb.com|access-date=12 April 2019}}
• Ballymun Lullaby (2011; documentary)
• The Swell Season (2011)
• Play (2011)
• Parenthood (2010 TV series) (2012 episode: "Trouble in Candyland"){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2497418/|title=Parenthood: Season 4, Episode 10 : Trouble in Candyland (3 December 2012)|publisher=IMDb.com|access-date=24 October 2015}}
• In the Deep Shade (2013 documentary, with the Irish band The Frames)
• Late Show with David Letterman (2013, episode: December 12) Musical guest
• Live on Letterman (Concert webcast, 12 December 2013) {{Cite web |title=ONCE Composer Glen Hansard to Perform on LIVE ON LETTERMAN CONCERT Webcast, 12/12|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/ONCE-Composer-Glen-Hansard-to-Perform-on-LIVE-ON-LETTERMAN-CONCERT-Webcast-1212-20131210|access-date=2024-04-21|website=Broadwayworld|language=en}}
• The Last Man on Earth (TV series) (2016 episode "Falling Slowly")
• Cyrano (2021, Guard #1)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2023, episode: October 3) Musical Guest{{Cite web |title=Guests Announced for ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' Oct. 4-6 |url=https://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/ABCTelevisionGroup/view/340104/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Pressparty |language=en}}

• The Stars Are Underground – 24-minute film documenting the underground music scene in Dublin (1996)

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• {{Official website}}
• {{IMDb name|360598|Glen Hansard}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120116035507/http://www.theswellseason.com/ Profile], theswellseason.com
• [http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/theframes/lyrics.html Lyrics], IrishMusicCentral.com
• [http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/article_glen_hansard_interview_the_frames.htm "Sweating Songs" (Hansard interview)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100222081821/http://www.vpro.nl/programma/vrijegeluiden/afleveringen/20653176/ It's Just A Band] (2005).

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