Once Co-Stars Enter The Artists Den

Fresh off their Oscar win for the song “Falling Slowly,” Irish singer Glen Hansard and Czech newcomer Markéta Irglová will appear with their band, The Swell Season, on the TV show Live From the Artists Den, on Thursday, February 28th. Co-stars of the movie Once, Hansard and Irglová formed The Swell Season in 2006, when they released an eponymous album.

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Fresh off their Oscar win for the song “Falling Slowly,” Irish singer Glen Hansard and Czech newcomer Markéta Irglová will appear with their band, The Swell Season, on the TV show Live From the Artists Den, on Thursday, February 28th. Co-stars of the movie Once, Hansard and Irglová formed The Swell Season in 2006, when they released an eponymous album.

Live From the Artists Den, which airs on the Ovation channel, presents top musical acts performing in unique settings. Other artists and venues featured in the first season include Patty Griffin at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts on New York’s Lower East Side; Josh Ritter at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Ben Harper on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival; Fountains of Wayne on a 100-year-old ship at New York’s South Street Seaport; and KT Tunstall at the Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan.

The Swell Season plan to release a DVD of their performance on the program, with additional bonus material, in the near future.