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| Fri 6/13/08 |
Manchester, TN |
Bonnaroo Music Festival |
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| Sun 6/15/08 |
Chicago, IL |
Chicago Theatre |
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| Mon 6/16/08 |
Madison, WI |
Overture Hall |
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| Tue 6/17/08 |
Chicago, IL |
Chicago Theatre |
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| Wed 6/18/08 |
Chicago, IL |
Chicago Theatre |
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| Sun 6/22/08 |
Telluride, CO |
Telluride Bluegrass Festival |
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| Sat 8/9/08 |
Baltimore, MD |
Virgin Mobile Festival |
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| Sun 8/10/08 |
Florence, MA |
The Pines Theatre |
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| Fri 9/19/08 |
Boston, MA |
Agganis Arena |
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| Sat 9/20/08 |
Toronto, ON |
Massey Hall |
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| Sun 9/21/08 |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Byham Theater |
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| Mon 9/22/08 |
Columbus, OH |
Palace Theatre |
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| Wed 9/24/08 |
Nashville, TN |
Ryman Auditorium |
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| Sat 9/26/08 |
Austin, TX |
Austin City Limits Festival |
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| Mon 9/29/08 |
Dallas, TX |
Palladium Ballroom |
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| Tue 9/30/08 |
Albuquerque, NM |
Popejoy Hall |
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| Thu 10/2/08 |
Tucson, AZ |
Rialto Theatre |
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| Fri 10/3/08 |
San Diego, CA |
SDSU Open Air Theatre |
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| Sat 10/4/08 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Greek Theatre |
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| ! Bill Callahan supports |
| # Iron and Wine supports |
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On
the 2001 release, For the Birds, The Frames front man,
Glen Hansard asked the question "What happens when the
heart just stops?" A simple, rhetorical question and yet
one that won’t go away, as the song has went on to become
a staple of the Frames live set. While we may never know the
answer Glen has went on to provide us with a whole album of
like minded questions with his new project, The Swell Season.
With The Swell Season, Glen has teamed up with classically trained
Czech vocalist and pianist, Marketa Irglova to produce an album
of affecting songs and compositions. The record side steps many
of the conventional strategies offered on Frames records and
is most akin to Glen's solo shows or their 2001 release, For
the Birds. From straight songs to piano instrumentals The
Swell Season affords an insight into a whole other side of Glen/The
Frames, as well as offering a perfect introduction to this very
talented newcomer in Marketa.
Fresh off another year of constant touring and gigging with
The Frames, Glen retired to the Czech Republic for some down
time last fall. It's here that he spends much of his time writing
songs. A winter in Eastern Europe can be unkind, yet it also
loans itself to an indoor creative energy that can often stir
the muses. This batch of songs didn’t seem to loan themselves
to the anthemic nature of The Frames, so Glen decided to enter
a studio with some time collaborator, Marketa and the two were
left with the chilling and intimate, The Swell Season.
The record takes its name from author Josef Skvorecky’s
book of the same name. Set in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia the
story centers on one mans love of music and pursuit of unattainable
women as a country comes unglued. Like the book The Swell Season
deals with the pains and hopes of those struggling to make sense
of their lives. A place where characters fade into the picture
only to be eclipsed by their own darkness, pursuing the unattainable,
wishing for that one love, that one great chance that will give
meaning to their lives. Whether it comes or not is all. |
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The
Swell Season
Overcoat Recordings
2006 |
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