What is The Swell Season?
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = The Swell Season | image = Glen marketa derry 2006.jpg | caption = [[Glen Hansard|Hansard]] and [[Markéta Irglová|Irglová]], in [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], in April 2006 | background = group_or_band | alias = Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová | origin = [[Dublin]], Ireland | genre = {{hlist|[[Indie folk]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Outhier|first1=Craig|title=The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Carry on a Tradition of Music-Making Exes|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/the-swell-seasons-glen-hansard-and-marketa-irglova-carry-on-a-tradition-of-music-making-exes-6431476|website=[[Phoenix New Times]]|accessdate=16 July 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716062554/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/the-swell-seasons-glen-hansard-and-marketa-irglova-carry-on-a-tradition-of-music-making-exes-6431476|archivedate=16 July 2017}}</ref>|[[folk rock]]}} | years_active = 2005–2011, 2015 (one-off) 2022 (reunion tour) | label = Plateau, [[ANTI-]], Spunk, Sony | associated_acts = [[The Frames]] | current_members = | past_members = [[Glen Hansard]]<br/>[[Markéta Irglová]] | website = [http://www.theswellseason.com www.theswellseason.com] }} '''The Swell Season''' are an [[Academy Award]] winning [[folk rock]] duo. The members are [[Glen Hansard]] and [[Marketa Irglova]]. Hansard is a member of the [[Irish people|Irish]] [[band]] [[The Frames]]. Irglova is a [[Classical music|classically trained]] [[Czechs|Czech]] [[pianist]] and [[singer]]. The duo won the [[Academy Award for Best Song]] in 2008. The Swell Session made their first [[album]], ''The Swell Season'', in 2006. It was just after the release of the Frames' sixth [[Compact disc|CD]], ''The Cost''. Hansard and Irglová also appeared as working-class [[immigrant]]s in the popular Irish [[movie]], ''Once.'' The movie was shown at the [[Sundance Film Fes