Belfast International Arts Festival returns from 6 October to 7 November with headliners Glen Hansard and The Great Irish Songbook, featuring legendary Irish folk group Dervish, alongside Brian Kennedy, Cara Dillon, Karen Matheson, Eddi Reader and Belfast’s own Open Arts Community Choir.
The Wild Willing is born from a desire to collaborate, to open new doors, connect with people from all ends of the earth…something infinitely precious. This is Glen Hansards best complete work by a country mile and one of the finest albums to ever come out of Ireland.
Our Song of the Day is “Fool’s Game”, the new single from Glen Hansard’s upcoming fourth solo album This Wild Willing, set to be released April 12 via ANTI- Records. Watch the accompanying video filmed by Myles O’Reilly in Paris, France.
Glen Hansard announces ‘This Wild Willing’, his fourth full-length album in which he marries the sonic inventiveness of the best of his work in The Frames with the discipline he’s found as a songwriter and lyricist in his solo career. Listen to lead track ‘I’ll Be You, Be Me’.
This Friday marks the release of Glen Hansard’s new album ‘Between Two Shores’ (Anti- 19th Jan). He has revealed a new animated music video for the album opener ‘Roll on Slow’ which was written when Hansard was living on Bleeker Street, NYC.
Featuring 12 brand new songs produced by Thomas Bartlett featuring self-penned and songs written by friends and relatives: Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Ondaatje and Merrill Garbus of tune-yArDs.
Part Three – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Steve Tilston, Barrule, Blazin Fiddles, Boo Hewerdine, Kyle Carey, Peatbog Faeries, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Seckou Keita, Urban Folk Quartet and more
Our latest mix features some of the best new folk music out there today and the majority of the tracks are very new releases. Alongside some well know artists are also some relative newcomers. Enjoy and share!
Glen Hansard’s second solo album finds him in reflective mood, the songs veined with themes of grace under pressure and of support and comfort for the lost.
Now 76 and with a voice that still sounds as clear and pure as it did in 1976 when she first sang ‘Both Sides Now’, Judy Collins’ latest offering features a cast of collaborators including the likes of Glen Hansard and Bhi Bhiman who step up to join her in song.
Glen Hansard has shared the new video for Lowly Deserter, a strong roots driven number that features on his forthcoming album ‘Didn’t He Ramble’. Through the clever use of a house based ‘hedge school’ the video weaves Irelands history and struggles into the story.
Watch the first instalment of a new short film by Irish film director Myles O’Reilly in which he captures one of Ireland’s biggest independent bands ‘The Frames’ performing at Whelan’s.
