Hansard of the Irish band The Frames and Irglova first happened upon one another when The Frames were touring the Czech Republic. The pair met through Irglova’s father who is a musician and gig promoter.

In 2005 they recorded an album together in Prague, ‘The Swell Season’, which was released in April 2006 and also featured two Interference musicians, Marja Tuhkanen (violin) and Bertrand Galen (cello). In many ways, it was to prove partly inspirational for John Carney’s ‘Once’, a low-budget indie film that was one of the most successful independent features of 2007. The pair not only wrote the songs for the movie but they both starred in it as well.

Since the release of the film, Glen and Marketa have toured extensively as ‘The Swell Season’ and appeared on a number of high profile US TV shows including ‘Letterman’ and ‘Tonight Show’ with Jay Leno’.

This Irish success story was rounded off in February by winning an Academy Award for ‘Falling Slowly’ in the ‘Best Original Song’ category.

Hansard is currently working on the new Frames album while both himself and Marketa will perform with The Swell Season at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall next month before their visit to Limerick.

The Swell Season take to the stage at Daghdha Space on Friday November 28. Tickets cost €31 and are available from Empire Music.

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