GLEN HANSARD

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Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist.

He formed his own band The Frames in 1990, and the group have been gigging regularly in Ireland since. Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role because he felt it distracted him from his music career. In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.

On 22 April 2006, he released his first album without The Frames, The Swell Season, on Overcoat Recordings in collaboration with Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Markéta Irglová, Marja Tuhkanen from Finland on violin and viola, and Bertrand Galen from France on cello. Hansard also spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for the music-infused Irish film Once, in which Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglová an immigrant street vendor. The film had its United States premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and received the Festival's World Cinema Audience Award. 

Aside from his projects with The Frames and Irglová, Hansard also took part as a member of the band on the 2006 Oxfam charity album, The Cake Sale. Hansard has recorded several cover songs, both alone and with band member Colm Mac Con Iomaire, for the Today FM discs Even Better than the Real Thing. Songs that he has recorded include Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1 and Britney Spears' "Everytime" on Vol. 2.

In the summer of 2011, he joined Eddie Vedder on his American solo tour in support of Vedder's solo album, Ukulele Songs. He played a solo concert at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Guitar Heroes exhibit in New York City in May 2011 and on Cape Cod at the Cape Cinema on 17 June. He made a solo album the same year titled Rhythm and Repose. American Songwriter included Hansard's "Love Don't Leave Me Waiting" on its The Muse July Sampler. Other songs of his featured in films’ soundtrack are This Gift, which appears in The Odd Life of Timothy Green ; "Take the Heartland" , for the 2012 film The Hunger Games ("Come Away to the Water", is featured on the soundtrack, but is covered by Maroon 5 and Rozzi Crane). In 2015, Hansard and Lisa Hannigan recorded a song, "On Love", for the soundtrack for the 2014 film Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. 

Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award 2015 to Joan Baez and Ai Wei Wei.

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JO HARMAN

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Jo Harman (born 21 September 1983) is a British singer and songwriter.

Born in Luton, England, Harman grew up in the Devon village of Lustleigh, before moving to London to study for a BA Theatre Arts. After travelling to India, following the death of her father, she attended Brighton Institute of Modern Music in Brighton. In 2011, she self-released Live at Hideaway, whilst she developed her songcraft toward making a debut studio album.

Harman's first gig in Europe was to 5,500 people opening for The Cranberries on Monday 5 November 2012 in Amsterdam . Her second album, Dirt on My Tongue, was released in 2013. Harman's song to her father, "Sweet Man Moses", was nominated as best composition at the 2012 British Blues Awards and this was followed by "Worthy of Love" being nominated in the same category the following year, together with a "Best Female Singer" nomination.

In 2014, she and her bandmates in "Jo Harman and Company" were nominated for seven British Blues Awards. She appeared at BluesFest where her performance was recorded by the BBC and released as a live album. Harman has worked with members of Average White Band.

In February 2017, she released her second studio album, People We Become. The first single from the album, "When We Were Young", featuring backup vocals from Michael McDonald, achieved BBC Radio 2 playlist status.

Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award 2015 to Joan Baez and Ai Wei Wei.

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AMY HELM

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Amy Helm is a founding member of the roots collective band, Ollabelle. She also sings with her father in the Levon Helm Band.

Helm received a grammy for co-producing Levon Helm’s album Dirt Farmer (2007). She has also performed live on stage with a wide range of musicians, including Alison Krauss, Warren Haynes, Oliver Wood and Joan Osborne. Helm has also sang backing vocals on recordings released by Donald fagen, Mercury Rev, Marc Cohn, Mavis Staples and numerous other musicians.

She has maintained strong ties to Woodstock, N.Y., throughout her life..

WARREN HAYNES

BIOGRAPHY

Warren Haynes epitomizes the credo “have guitar, will travel.” The North Carolina-born axeman’s resume is a dizzyingly versatile document that includes memberships in the Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh & Friends and The Dead, as well as fronting Gov’t Mule. His voluminous credits  also include singing, writing and playing for the Dave Matthews Band, the Derek  Trucks Band, John Lee Hooker, Garth Brooks, Corrosion of Conformity, David Allen  Coe, Kevin Kinney, Little Milton, Everlast, Michael McDonald, Les Claypool, the  Bottle Rockets, Elvin Bishop, Coheed and Cambria, Johnny Winter and many others.  Haynes organizes the annual Christmas Jam charity concert in Asheville, N.C.,  and his 2011 solo album “Man in Motion” was nominated for a Grammy Award.

LEVON HELM

BIOGRAPHY

Levon Helm was the legendary voice and multi-instrumentalist of The Band, playing drums as well as mandolin and, occasionally, guitar and bass. The Arkansas-born Helm – who inspired the title of Elton John’s hit “Levon” – was with The Band for its entire history and also led Levon Helm and the RCO All Stars during the late 70s. He was an inaugural member of Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band and was part of Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” concert in 1990. He published an autobiography, “This Wheel’s on Fire,” in 1993 and in recent years hosted Midnight Ramble concerts at his home and studio in Woodstock, N.Y. He received Grammy Awards for his recent albums “Dirt Farmer,” “Electric Dirt” and “Ramble at the Ryman,” and he amassed an acting resume that includes “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “The Right Stuff,” End of the Line” and “Fire Down Below”. † April 19, 2012