For the 2006 album, see The Swell Season (album). For the 2011 documentary film, see The Swell Season (film).
The Swell Season
Hansard and Irglová, in Derry, Northern Ireland, in April 2006
Background information
Also known as
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
Origin
Dublin, Ireland
Genres
Indie folk[1]
folk rock
Years active
2005–2011, 2015 (one-off) 2022–2023 (as Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová of The Swell Season)
Labels
Plateau, ANTI-, Spunk, Sony
Past members
Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová
Website
www.theswellseason.com
The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album, released in 2006, carried the same name.
The duo rose to prominence following the success of the 2007 film Once, directed by John Carney, in which the pair starred depicting a dramatised version of their own musical pairing. Their song "Falling Slowly" from the film took the Oscar for Best Song at the 80th Academy Awards. They increasingly referred to themselves as "The Swell Season" in promotion of their performances until it became the formal name of their collaboration in 2008. (They still used their separate names when they contributed their cover of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" to the 2007 soundtrack of I'm Not There.)
From 2007 through 2010, a documentary film was made about Irglova and Hansard called The Swell Season. The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2011 to positive reviews.[2][3][4]
^Outhier, Craig. "The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Carry on a Tradition of Music-Making Exes". Phoenix New Times. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^Walsh, Barry (21 June 2011). "Silverdocs' "Swell" opening". Realscreen.com. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
^Gaffney, Frank J. "Communities – Voices and Insights". The Washington Times. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^Holmes, Linda (21 June 2011). "'The Swell Season': How Documentaries Can Tell Stories We Don't Want To Hear". NPR. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
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