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In February, Glen will be heading out for an “intimate evening of career spanning songs & stories” North American Winter Tour of theaters mostly in the southeastern & midwestern US. His touring band will be some of the players from Rhythm & Repose – Brad Albetta on bass, Thomas Bartlett on keys & Rob Moose on strings. Check out the announcement at his site and find a bit more info here.
Tickets go on sale this Friday the 7th and you can find those ticket links here on our site if you fancy.
Glen, Graham, Rob, Joe, Justin, Michael, Curtis, Ronan, and Rob M (and Simon, Leon, Gerry & Mic!) just finished up their week-long 5 gig tour in America. We have finished gig pages for most of the shows over here & stay tuned for one from the Hollywood Bowl soon. Speaking of, Graham took over the Zildjian Company’s Instagram on the day of the Hollywood gig, have a look!
As of now, Glen’s next show is at this Brassland Records event at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in December. Rob & Joe will be joining Marketa Irglova on her North American & European tours this Fall in support of her new record, Muna, coming out in September. You can find all of those dates here.
Happy New Year! Here are some dates have been announced for Glen solo shows in Australia this March! You can keep an eye on the new Glen 2014 gig dates page as well.
7-10 March – Port Fairy, Australia – Port Fairy Folk Festival
14 March – Melbourne, Australia – Melbourne Recital Centre (with special guest Lisa O’Neill)
15 March – Meeniyan, Australia – Meeniyan Town Hall (with special guest Lisa O’Neill)
20 March – Sydney, Australia – Sydney Opera House (with special guest Lisa O’Neill) (preview)
Another Glen Hansard + full band show has been added to Vicar Street on November 25. Tickets go on sale 4 October for €30 with all proceeds benefiting the Peter McVerry Trust and the Dublin Simon Community. Mark Geary and his band will support. Click through to read more about PMV Trust & Dublin Simon.
For 30 years, Peter McVerry Trust has tackled homelessness in Ireland. In the mid-1970s Fr Peter McVerry began working with young people in Dublin’s north inner-city witnessing first-hand the problems of homelessness and deprivation. In 1983, as the number of young people experiencing homelessness grew, he established the charity, known as Peter McVerry Trust. Over its 30 year history, Peter McVerry Trust was provided vital housing and support services, which have helped thousands of young people to rebuild their lives. More than 3,500 individuals were supported by the charity last year, with 74% between the ages of 18-35 and the youngest just 13. www.pmvtrust.ie
Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow. We provide services at all stages of homelessness and enable people to move to a place they can call home. At Simon, we listen to people who turn to us for help and do everything we can to support them to move out of homelessness into independent living. We strive to empower people to access, secure and retain a home of their own by reducing the reliance on short-term emergency accommodation and providing permanent supported housing for people to sustain a home in their local community. Moving people into supported housing produces life-enhancing and life-saving results and is more cost-effective in the long run.
The organisation was founded by a group of Trinity and UCD students in 1969, who began by providing much-needed soup and sandwiches to people who were sleeping rough in Dublin city centre. In addition to theSoup Run, which still goes out 365 nights of the year, Dublin Simon provide many services which aim to help those who are sleeping rough on the streets, people who are in their own accommodation but at risk of homelessness and those who are at any of the stages in between.
www.dubsimon.ie
Glen will take a jog, sans band, around Ireland in October with Lisa O’Neill supporting all but the Galway gig. In addition, he will wind up a long year of touring with a gig at Vicar Street accompanied by his full band (The Frames + horns + strings!) on 26th November. Tickets for all shows go on sale this Friday 6th September.
(Updated September 16)
20 Oct – Hawkswell, Sligo (ticket link)
21 Oct – MAC Theatre, Belfast (sold out)
22 Oct – Spirit Store, Dundalk (sold out)
24 Oct – Debarras, Clonakilty (ticket link)
25 Oct – Blackbird, Ballycotton (sold out)
26 Oct – Blessings Bar, Cavan (buy at the bar or call Multi-sound at 049-4361312)
28 Oct – Cyprus Avenue, Cork (sold out)
29 Oct – Town Hall, Galway (ticket link)
26 Nov – Vicar Street, Dublin (full band) (ticket link)