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Origin
Dublin, Ireland
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Folk
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Bittersweet
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2 MixedOrigin
Dublin, IrelandGenre
FolkStyle
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Mood
BittersweetBorn
2005
Active
2005 to 
2011
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Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
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The Swell Season - Low Rising4 users
The Swell Season - In These Arms4 users
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull4 users
The Swell Season - The Rain4 users
The Swell Season - Fantasy Man
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The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album goes by the same name.
Since their rise to prominence after starring in the 2007 film Once, they increasingly referred to themselves as "The Swell Season" in promotion of their performances until it became the formal name of their collaboration in 2008. (Notably, they still used their separate names when they contributed their cover of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" to the 2007 soundtrack of I'm Not There.)
From 2007 through 2010, a documentary film was made about Irglova and Hansard called The Swell Season. The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2011 to positive reviews.
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