Once: A New Musical As I reported back in January, a musical of the movie Once was being planned for a Fall 2011 debut on Broadway. Well, it’s now officially Fall, (almost Winter, I suppose), and the Once musical is in fact, currently playing in our fair city pretty much as originally promised. The reason…
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Swell Season Movie Getting Theatrical Release, Marketa Irglova Releasing New Album, Touring w/ Iron & Wine
The Swell Season Movie Listen: Marketa Irglova – “Go Back” via NPR Music Hey folks, the good news is that the festival circuit hit, The Swell Season Movie, will be getting an official theatrical release in October of this year. In other related news, Marketa Irglova‘s debut solo album Anar will be released on October…
The Swell Season Doc at Tribeca Film Fest Today
The Swell Season Movie Sure, The Swell Season made big headlines when they won the Oscar for Best Song at the 2008 Academy Awards, but the public’s fascination with Marketa Irgolva and Glen Hansard‘s May-December relationship created a mini-tabloid bonanza. The Swell Season Movie, which screens this afternoon (Apr 29) as part of the Tribeca…
Glen Hansard Played City Winery, Playing Neil Young Tribute Tonight
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova at City Winery (02/02/10) Photo: D. Caplan The show was billed as “Glen Hansard Solo Acoustic”, but the keyboard and drums setup on stage belied the fact that we might be seeing more than one person on stage for the night. As promised, Glen came out solo with his signature…
Glen Hansard Playing City Winery, “Once” Musical Being Planned
The Swell Season at Celebrate Brooklyn (07/30/10) Photo: Geoff Green (more) Glen Hansard will be performing a rare solo show on Feb 2 (Buy Tickets) at the City Winery. Also, as previously mentioned, The Frames frontman will be one of the many artists performing at the big Neil Young at Carnegie Hall tribute on February…
More Artists Announced for Neil Young at Carnegie Hall
When I first mentioned the Neil Young Carnegie Hall Tribute back in October, the lineup had not been announced, let alone finalized. With the show only a few weeks away (Feb 10, 2011), here’s what the confirmed all-star lineup looks like so far: The Music Of Neil Young is scheduled for February 10th with an…