An Academy Award-winning songwriter, musician, actor and singer.
Born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on Dublin streets. He first came to popular attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker film The Commitments.
Best know in his native Ireland as the front man of The Frames, but best known outside of Ireland for his leading role in the award winning film Once, which was directed by his former Frames band-mate John Carney and co-starred Hansard's real-life musical collaborator Marketa Irglova whom he had originally met when he was on tour in her home town in the Czech Republic - they record and perform together as The Swell Season.
The sound-track to Once featured songs from Hansard's writing back catalogue, including new arrangements of songs previously recorded with The Frames. More famously it included compositions co-written by Marketa Irglova, one of which Falling Slowly was nominated for the 2007 Grammy for "Best Song Written for Motion Picture" and won the 2007 Academy Award for "Best Original Song".
2025
Westway Music Ltd.
13xFile, FLAC, Album, Hi-
2025
Not On Label (Mark Ward (18) Self-released)
CDr, Album
2025
Masterkey Studios, Iceland, Plateau Records (2)
7", Single, Ltd, Lim
2025
2025
2024
Not On Label (Pearl Jam Self-released)
2xCDr, Tour
2024
Casino Records Entertainment
2xLP, Comp, Ltd, Num, Unofficial, Gra
2024
2023
2023
Wan Xiang Music
File, MP3, WAV, Single
2022
Wan Xiang Music
11xFile, MP3, Album, RM, 256
2022
Born Optimistic
2xLP, Album, Ltd
2022
2022
Anti-
16xFile, FLAC, Comp
2022
2021
2021
2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
Mojo Magazine
CD, Comp
2019
Som Livre
CD, Comp
2019
Brookdale Public Radio
LP
2019
WFUV
CD
2018
Plateau Records (2)
14xFile, MP3, Album, 256
2018
Fanfare Records (5)
CD
2018
Not On Label
CD, Album, Dig
2018
Lærdal Musikkproduksjon
CD, Album
2017
2017
Decca, Universal Music
CD, Album
2017
EastWest
CD, Album
2017
Wan Xiang, SoundSound
CD, Album
2017
Laika Records
CD, Album
2017
2017
2017
Record Store Day
LP, RSD, Comp, Ltd, Bro
2017
2017
Eat A Peach!
2xCD, Unofficial
2016
2016
Not On Label (Melanie Horsnell Self-released)
CD, Album
2016
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December 10, 2025
Royal Albert Hall
London, England, United Kingdom1. Something Right(Interference cover)
2. This Gift
3. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
4. Christmas Lullaby(Shane MacGowan and the Popes cover)
November 13, 2025
MEB Şura Salonu
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey1. Gold(Interference cover)
2. Fool's Game
3. Don't Settle
4. Bearing Witness
5. Leave(The Swell Season cover)
6. Winning Streak
7. Down On Our Knees
8. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
9. Great Weight(The Swell Season cover)
10. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
11. Stuck in Reverse(The Swell Season cover)
12. High Hope
With Anton13. Song of Good Hope
With Anton, performed off mic14. One of Us Must Lose
15. Revelate(The Frames cover)
16. The Moon(The Swell Season cover)
17. Say It to Me Now(The Frames cover)
Performed off mic18. American Townland(Interference cover)
19. Lies(The Swell Season cover)
Audience request20. This Gift
21. If You Want Me(The Swell Season cover)
Performed with a guest audience member22. Passing Through(Pete Seeger cover)
Off mic with the audienceNovember 11, 2025
Zorlu Center PSM
Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeySetlist incomplete and out of order
1. Say It to Me Now(The Frames cover)
Performed off mic2. Gold(Interference cover)
Performed off mic3. Don't Settle
4. Down On Our Knees
5. Leave(The Swell Season cover)
6. What Happens When the Heart Just Stops(The Frames cover)
7. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
8. Bird of Sorrow
9. Return
10. Leave a Light
11. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
12. Great Weight(The Swell Season cover)
13. High Hope
With Anton14. Song of Good Hope
With Anton15. Her Mercy
16. This Gift
17. My Little Ruin
Audience request18. Lies(The Swell Season cover)
Audience requestSeptember 7, 2025
Suffolk Downs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States1. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
2. American Townland(Interference cover)
3. Great Weight(The Swell Season cover)
4. The Feast of St. John
Glen Hansard5. Down On Our Knees
Glen Hansard6. Revelate(The Frames cover)
7. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
8. Didn't He Ramble
Glen Hansard9. Gloria(Them cover)
July 21, 2025
Massey Hall
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPlayed one song solo before introducing opener Susan O'Neill
1. Coyote(Joni Mitchell cover)
solo; unpluggedApril 21, 2025
Funkhaus Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, Germany1. Song of Good Hope
2. Bearing Witness
3. Sure as the Rain
4. Don't Settle
5. My Little Ruin
6. Didn't He Ramble
7. What Happens When the Heart Just Stops(The Frames cover)
8. Bird of Sorrow
9. Her Mercy
10. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
11. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
12. Carrickfergus([traditional] cover)
Glen solo on piano13. McCormack's Wall
Glen solo on piano14. Lowly Deserter
15. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
16. The Feast of St. John
17. Down On Our Knees
18. Return
19. Fool's Game
20. Passing Through(Pete Seeger cover)
April 20, 2025
Funkhaus Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, Germany1. Fool's Game
2. Don't Settle
3. My Little Ruin
4. Didn't He Ramble
5. Winning Streak
6. Her Mercy
7. This Gift
with Charlotte Blokhuis8. High Hope
9. Bird of Sorrow
10. Leave a Light
11. Just to Be the One
12. Back Broke(The Swell Season cover)
13. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
14. The Feast of St. John
15. Down On Our Knees
16. The Foggy Dew
Glen solo a capella17. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
18. Revelate(The Frames cover)
19. Star Star / Pure Imagination(The Frames cover)
1. Wreckless Heart
March 26, 2025
Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall
New York, New York, United States1. Beneath the Southern Cross(Patti Smith cover)
March 25, 2025
City Winery New York City
New York, New York, United States1. Beneath the Southern Cross(Patti Smith cover)
February 27, 2025
Musta Kissa Bar
Helsinki, Uusimaa, FinlandNovember 23, 2024
Reusser Guitars
Brienz, Bern, Switzerland1. Winning Streak
2. Low Rising(The Swell Season cover)
3. Great Weight(The Swell Season cover)
4. Sure as the Rain
5. Down On Our Knees
6. One of Us Must Lose
7. The Hardest Thing
New song "The hardest thing i'm ever gonna have to do is let you go"1. Leave a Light
2. Tender Mercies(Glen Hansard & Eddie Vedder cover)
3. Stuck in Reverse(The Swell Season cover)
4. Ghost
5. There's No Mountain
6. Coyote(Joni Mitchell cover)
7. Take Heart
1. Her Mercy
2. Bird of Sorrow
3. Song of Good Hope
with Toby on co-vox4. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
with Corrine on co-vox; followed by closing remarks from Rene5. Carrickfergus([traditional] cover)
October 4, 2024
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California, United States1. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
2. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
3. There's No Mountain
4. Didn't He Ramble
5. The Feast of St. John
6. Down On Our Knees
7. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
8. Foggy Dew(Charles O’Neill cover)
9. Thoughts & Prayers(Josh Okeefe cover)
Josh Okeefe only, original song by Josh10. Her Mercy
contained tease of Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire"11. Revelate(The Frames cover)
12. Gold(Interference cover)
October 3, 2024
The Fillmore
San Francisco, California, United States1. Carrickfergus([traditional] cover)
1. Don't Settle
2. I'll Be You, Be Me
3. Sure as the Rain
4. Say It To Me Now
5. My Little Ruin
6. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
7. Ghost
8. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
9. Maybe Not Tonight
10. Didn't He Ramble
11. Dead Reckoning
12. Leave a Light
just Glen (voc, ac gtr), and fiddle/violin13. The Feast of St. John
14. Down On Our Knees
15. Lies(The Swell Season cover)
->16. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
17. Her Mercy
18. Revelate(The Frames cover)
"Hells Bells" tag at the end19. Side Effect(Zoe Hayter cover)
20. Foggy Dew(Charles O’Neill cover)
21. This Gift
October 1, 2024
Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, California, United States1. Sure as the Rain
2. Don't Settle
3. My Little Ruin / When Your Mind's Made Up
4. Raglan Road([traditional] cover)
5. The Feast of St. John
6. Down On Our Knees
7. My Father's Daughter
with Olivia Vedder on vocals8. This Gift
9. Leave a Light
The Given Note by Seamus Heaney intro10. Bird of Sorrow
11. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
12. Revelate(The Frames cover)
with AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" outro13. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
14. A Pair of Brown Eyes(The Pogues cover)
with James Fearnley on accordion and Jonny Pickett on banjo15. Bottle of Smoke(The Pogues cover)
with James Fearnley on accordion and Jonny Pickett on banjo16. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday([traditional] cover)
with James Fearnley on accordion and Jonny Pickett on banjo17. High Hope
18. Song of Good Hope
with Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" sang by violinist Gareth Quinn Redmond19. Gold(Interference cover)
September 28, 2024
Doheny State Beach
Dana Point, California, United States1. Didn't He Ramble
2. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
3. The Feast of St. John
4. Down On Our Knees
5. My Father's Daughter(Olivia Vedder, Eddie Vedder & Glen Hansard cover)
6. Tender Mercies(Glen Hansard & Eddie Vedder cover)
7. Revelate(The Frames cover)
8. Hells Bells(AC/DC cover)
9. Star Star(The Frames cover)
w/ Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley" "Pure Imagination" tag and a young fan from the crowd on vocalsSeptember 24, 2024
Paramount Theatre
Austin, Texas, United States1. Don't Settle
2. Sure as the Rain
3. Between Us There Is Music
4. My Little Ruin
5. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
6. The Moon(The Swell Season cover)
7. The Feast of St. John
8. Down On Our Knees
9. Bird of Sorrow
10. There's No Mountain
11. Leave a Light
12. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
13. Didn't He Ramble
14. One of Us Must Lose
15. Her Mercy
16. I Wish You'd Come Around(Dale Watson cover)
17. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain(Elton Britt and The Skytoppers cover)
18. High Hope
September 23, 2024
Paramount Theatre
Austin, Texas, United StatesSetlist incomplete
1. Sure as the Rain
2. Her Mercy
3. Didn't He Ramble
4. Don't Settle
5. My Little Ruin
6. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
7. Time Will Be the Healer
8. The Feast of St. John
9. Down On Our Knees
10. Bird of Sorrow
11. There's No Mountain
12. Leave a Light
13. Stuck in Reverse(The Swell Season cover)
14. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
15. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain(Elton Britt and The Skytoppers cover)
16. Bearing Witness
17. Revelate(The Frames cover)
18. One of Us Must Lose
19. High Hope
20. Life in Vain(Daniel Johnston cover)
21. Gold(Interference cover)
September 20, 2024
Tabernacle
Atlanta, Georgia, United States1. Don't Settle
2. Sure as the Rain
3. Between Us There Is Music
4. Didn't He Ramble
5. My Little Ruin
6. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
7. High Hope
8. The Feast of St. John
9. Down On Our Knees
10. Bird of Sorrow
11. There's No Mountain
12. Leave a Light
The Given Note by Seamus Heaney intro13. Stuck in Reverse(The Swell Season cover)
14. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
15. Bearing Witness
16. Gimme a Bullet(AC/DC cover)
Guitar tech joined band on stage17. Revelate(The Frames cover)
18. One of Us Must Lose
19. Her Mercy
Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen outro1. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
Encore played after venue mistakenly brought house lights up and audience partially left.2. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday([traditional] cover)
Dedicated to Shane McGowanSeptember 18, 2024
9:30 Club
Washington, Washington, D.C., United States1. Fitzcarraldo(The Frames cover)
Not on printed set list2. Dead Reckoning
3. Sure as the Rain
4. Between Us There Is Music
5. Didn't He Ramble
6. Don't Settle
7. I'll Be You, Be Me
8. My Little Ruin
Inspired by Donald Trump’s debate performance.9. When Your Mind's Made Up(The Swell Season cover)
10. Bird of Sorrow
Not on printed setlist11. Time Will Be the Healer
Not on printed setlist.12. The Feast of St. John
13. Down On Our Knees
14. There's No Mountain
15. Leave a Light
Dedicated to Danny Sheehan.16. Stuck in Reverse(The Swell Season cover)
17. Falling Slowly(The Swell Season cover)
Young child, Parker, pulled on stage and sits behind Glen until the end of the show.18. Her Mercy / Star Star(The Frames cover)
Parker given a tambourine and accompanies the band until the end of the show.19. Revelate(The Frames cover)
20. Song of Good Hope
Audience member sings final verse. Glen urges the crowd to register to vote.21. This Gift
September 17, 2024
Fenway Park
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSetlist incomplete and out of order
1. Farewell Transmission(Songs: Ohia cover)
2. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday([traditional] cover)
3. My Father's Daughter
4. The Feast of St. John
5. Down On Our Knees
6. Wreckless Heart
7. Revelate(The Frames cover)
8. Where Is My Mind?(Pixies cover)
