{"id":1239,"date":"2008-09-17T22:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T02:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2022-10-17T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:12:20","slug":"the-swell-season-live-at-rumsey-playfield-central-park-new-york-september-17-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-swell-season-live-at-rumsey-playfield-central-park-new-york-september-17-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swell Season live at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, New York &#8211; September 17, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glen Hansard (of The Frames and <a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-commitments\/\"><em>The Commitments<\/em><\/a>) and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 recorded an album together called <em>The Swell Season<\/em>, and now tour under the name. They fell in love while filming the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/once\/\"><em>Once<\/em><\/a>, and are now a couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, they got their Oscar-winning song &#8220;Falling Slowly&#8221; out of the way right away, perhaps to avoid having the audience call it out as a request over and over throughout the evening. Personally, I felt Hansard goofed off a bit too much, even during serious songs like a new one I believe was called &#8220;Broke Down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Hansard (of The Frames and The Commitments) and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 recorded an album together called The Swell Season, and now tour under the name. They fell in love while filming the excellent Once, and are now a couple. Interestingly, they got their Oscar-winning song &#8220;Falling Slowly&#8221; out of the way right away, perhaps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[194,190,193,191,1910,189,188],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-music","tag-commitments","tag-falling-slowly","tag-frames","tag-glen-hansard","tag-marketa-irglova","tag-once","tag-swell-season"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/swell-season-summerstage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-jZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/once\/","url_meta":{"origin":1239,"position":0},"title":"Glen Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 falling slowly in Once","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Now this is a musical (of sorts) I can get behind. 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