Samantha Jones

New Yorker, Chicago based. Traveler + Food ❤️ NY Giants, Chicago Blackhawks

[Jon Gabriel @exjon]

While I was waiting outside a venue to see a Glen Hansard concert, an old black man was playing his sax for change. I've seen this guy at several shows before and threw him a few bucks like usual.

Later, we were seated near the front of the theater waiting for the show to start, and there was one empty seat in the center of the third row.

Just before Glen took stage, a member of the road crew escorted the old sax player to that seat. Glen had seen him busking outside and thought he deserved the best seat in the house.

Rest in Peace, Glen. https://t.co/Er5eT9bzaS

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

RIP Glen Hansard 🕊️⁠ ⁠

Filmed here with Eddie Vedder playing his Oscar-winning track ‘Falling Slowly’.⁠ ⁠

The singer-songwriter has died aged 56 in a motorcycle crash in Dublin, Ireland.⁠ ⁠

#GlenHansard #EddieVedder

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

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