(PR) The Academy- and Grammy-Award nominated group The Swell Season recently filmed an intimate, private performance for the Artists Den at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel in Seattle, WA. The concert will premiere on Ovation TV's "Live from the Artists Den" - an innovative new weekly music series featuring acclaimed artists performing in extraordinary settings - on Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 PM (ET/PT). This spring Artists Den Records will release a DVD recording of The Swell Season's performance featuring bonus footage not included on the February 28 telecast. Release date and additional information will be announced shortly.
Known to the world from the Fox Searchlight film Once, The Swell Season is led by Irish singer Glen Hansard (of the band The Frames) and Czech newcomer Markιta Irglovα. The film's song "Falling Slowly" has received numerous prestigious award nominations, including Best Original Song in the 2008 Academy Awards. The group will perform on the 80th Annual Academy Awards on February 24.
Built in 1906 as a shelter for wayward girls, the Good Shepherd Center Chapel in Seattle provided a new sort of haven for two hundred Artists Den guests on a crisp autumn night. Now a Historic Seattle landmark and performance space, the intimate chapel is framed by high wooden arches, which were lit by candlelight for this unforgettable appearance by the Swell Season.
Other artists and venues featured in the first season of "Live from the Artists Den" on Ovation TV include Patty Griffin at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts on New York's Lower East Side; Josh Ritter at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Ben Harper on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival; Fountains of Wayne on a 100-year-old ship at New York's South Street Seaport; and KT Tunstall at the Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan.
The Artists Den (www.TheArtistsDen.com) has been presenting emerging and established musicians in unique settings around the world since its inception in 2004. The venture began as one music lover's vision of staging great live music in non-traditional settings. Initially a series of intimate living room concerts, the Artists Den has expanded to include concerts across North America and Europe by some of today's most significant names in popular music, in venues as varied as Christie's auction house in London, an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, a private Southampton beach house and the diamond floor of Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue.
