Once Stars Hansard & Irglova in Kansas & Missouri
Kansas City gets a chance to see the Oscar winning stars of the Irish movie Once, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, when they perform at the Uptown Theater on Monday, May 5, 2008.
Update: Damien Dempsey opens for Once stars Hansard & Irglova
And they also play at The Pageant in St Louis the following night, Tuesday, March 6, 2008.
Frontman of Irish band The Frames, Hansard, together with young Czech pianist Irglova perform together under the name The Swell Season - the name of their album - though with the success of Once they seem to increasingly be just touring as, well, Once.
If my memory serves me right this will be the first time for Hansard to perform in anywhere near Lawrence since The Frames opened for Damien Rice one excellent night all the way back in, 2003?
On the off chance you’re not familiar with the music from the film Once you can of course check out its MySpace page.
As if their music wasn’t popular enough already I imagine the Oscar for Best Song that the duo won for Falling Slowly will mean these gigs will sell out in a heartbeat.
Kansas City
Tickets go on sale on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 10am. From then you can purchase online from here. (link fixed) Prices are $30.
Location: Uptown Theater, 3600 Broadway
Phone: 816-753-8665
St Louis
Tickets are on presale here (Password: “Once”) on thursday from 11am-11pm and available for purchase online from Friday. General Admission Limited Seating: $30.00; Reserved Balcony Seating: $35.00
Location: 6161 Delmar 1/2 block east of Skinker
Doors open at 7pm, gig starts at 8pm, Support is TBA. Have at it.
More about Once and Hansard & Irglova:
• Once: Interviews, Reviews, and Trailer
• Live Music From Once
• Frames & Once on Tour
• Once stars in ‘06
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Thank you SO much for keeping us “up to snuff”!! I really appreciate the news I get from you.
Thanks very much Patricia. This gig was a nice bit of news, wasn’t it?
I am going to see them again in Portland on April 28. So glad they are back on tour. I posted a review of their recent concert in Portland, a Once movie review and also a bit about the Oscars on my blog. You’ll just have to scroll down on the right side and click on the “Glen Hansard” label to find all of it. http://isorski.blogspot.com/
Yes Isorski, so you said. Easy on repeating links there.
They’ve moved the show from Lawrence to The Uptown Theatre in KC.
Thanks very much Patricia. I saw yesterday that they’d half-changed things and was waiting to establish confimation. Amendments and updates to come, so.