'Falling Slowly' Nominated for Oscar

January 23, 2008

In a sea of songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for the Disney film Enchanted, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have picked up an Oscar nomination for "Falling Slowly" from their movie Once. The film, which contains lots of music written by the pair, tells the story of an Irish busker who meets and falls in love with a fellow musician who recently immigrated from the Czech Republic. Hansard, a member of the Irish band The Frames, and Irglova, who is indeed Czech, performed together before shooting the film and are now a couple in real life.

As if to prove that this song is on the Folk Alley playlist, when I logged in to post this story, "Falling Slowly" was playing.