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"Once" soundtrack reaches Billboard Top 10

(NODEPRESSION.NET) -- Fresh off the heels of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova winning the Oscar for Best Song after they performed "Falling Slowly" on the Academy Awards telecast, the soundtrack to the movie Once jumped to #7 on the Billboard 200 top albums chart.

The soundtrack recently passed the 500,000-sales threshold for gold-record certification.

Hansard and Irglova -- who record and perform under the name Swell Season -- will hit the road for a month of dates in the United States this spring:

April 23: Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
April 25: Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
April 26: Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA
April 27: McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR
April 28: Keller Auditorium, Portland, OR
April 30: Moore Theater, Seattle, WA
May 1: The Wilma, Missoula, MT
May 2: The Depot, Salt Lake City, UT
May 3: Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, CO
May 5: Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, MO
May 6: The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
May 7: Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN
May 8: Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
May 10: Royal Oak Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
May 11: Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH
May 12: Brown Theatre, Louisville, KY
May 13: The Cobb, Atlanta, GA
May 15: Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC
May 16: Toad's Place, Richmond, VA
May 17: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD
May 19: Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY
May 20: Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA
June 13: Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, TN
June 16: Overture Arts Center, Madison, WI
June 17: Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
June 18: Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
June 22: Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride, CO

Posted by peter on March 7, 2008 4:10 PM | Permalink