The Swell Season plots fall course

Oscar-winning outfit The Swell Season will launch a fall run of North America in support of its new studio album, "Strict Joy."

The duo--Frames frontman Glen Hansard and Czech vocalist/pianist Marketa Irglova--will begin the trip with a Nov. 1 performance in Milwaukee. The month-long outing will take the singer/songwriters to 25 cities from coast to coast, including a handful of Canadian stops along the way. The roadwork wraps with a Dec. 5 concert in Minneapolis. Details are shown below.

"Strict Joy," The Swell Season's third album, will hit shelves Oct. 27. The new effort follows the duo's gold-certified 2007 set, "Once," the soundtrack for the indie film of the same name that featured the pair acting opposite one another in the lead roles. "Falling Slowly," a single from the soundtrack, won an Academy Award last year for Best Original Song.

Hansard and Irglova first collaborated on the 2006 album "The Swell Season." A documentary about the pair's sold-out world tour behind "Once" is in the making, according to a press release.

TOUR DATES
 tour dates and tickets
November 2009
1 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
2 - Indianapolis, IN - Clowes Memorial Hall
3 - Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
4 - Montreal, Quebec - Olympia de Montreal
6 - Boston, MA - Berklee Performance Center
7 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
8 - Philadelphia, PA - Merriam Theater
9 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
12 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
13 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
14 - Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
15 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theater
17 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Arts Center
18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
20 - Oakland, CA - Paramount Theatre
22 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
24 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
25 - Vancouver, British Columbia - The Centre
27 - Boise, ID - Egyptian Theatre
28 - Salt Lake City, UT - Jeanne Wagner Theatre
29 - Denver, CO - Odgen Theatre
30 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater

December 2009
3 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre
4 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
5 - Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre

 tour dates and tickets
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