Glen Hansard formed his own band The Frames in 1990, and the group have been gigging regularly in Ireland since.
17 Facts About Glen Hansard
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Glen Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments.
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Glen Hansard has often stated that he regretted taking the role because he felt it distracted him from his music career.
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Glen Hansard spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for the music-infused Irish film Once, in which Glen Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglova an immigrant street vendor.
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Glen Hansard had recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the film I'm Not There in 2007.
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In 2009, Glen Hansard said that he and Irglova were no longer romantically linked, and that they are now "good friends".
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Glen Hansard has recorded several cover songs, both alone and with band member Colm Mac Con Iomaire, for the Today FM discs Even Better than the Real Thing.
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Glen Hansard voiced a role on an episode on The Simpsons as an Irish busker.
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Glen Hansard played a solo concert at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Guitar Heroes exhibit in New York City in May 2011 and on Cape Cod at the Cape Cinema on 17 June.
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Glen Hansard plays several guitars, including a very recognisable battered Takamine NP15 acoustic guitar, which he calls "The Horse".
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Glen Hansard sang the song "Take the Heartland" on the soundtrack for the 2012 film The Hunger Games.
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Glen Hansard can be found singing "Come Away to the Water" on the deluxe edition of his first solo album Rhythm and Repose.
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Glen Hansard guest-starred in an episode of the TV series, Parenthood, playing himself.
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Glen Hansard sang Coyote at the Joni Mitchell 75th birthday concert Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration in Los Angeles in December 2018.
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Glen Hansard is a devotee of Krishna and performed for the 80th birthday of Swami Prabhupada in London, staying at a manor donated to the Hare Krishna movement by The Beatles' George Harrison, who was a Hare Krishna devotee.
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In 2008, Glen Hansard took a four-week filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy.
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In 2016, Glen Hansard was a prominent member of the Home Sweet Home Group, a coalition of activists and homeless.