Part performance, part catharsis, the singer-songwriter turns personal tragedy into a performance for the ages with emphatic brilliance and raw power.
The lights are a distraction for Glen Hansard. Beard streaked with colour, caught alone on the stage at the City Varieties Music Hall, the singer-songwriter is gentle but clipped in his words to the man behind his audience desperately fiddling with the controls to twist the brightness down. “It’s been a strange day,” he murmurs by way of apology. The mystery of his words is realised a few songs later, when he strikes up a delicately cast Bird of Sorrow.
As frontman of Irish rock veterans The Frames, and one half of The Swell Season, his folk-inflected songcraft has woven its way beneath the fabric of modern music, yet with a curious air of intimate anonymity. He is a musician’s musician, and here, mostly alone with two guitars and a piano, he fits his surroundings like a well-worn glove. The result is an evening part performance, part catharsis.
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