CBS revisits 2013 “Sunday Morning” profile of “Once” songwriter Glen Hansard after his death at 56

Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, recognized for his Oscar-winning work on the film Once and later tied to the stage musical adaptation that won a Tony Award, died July 29, 2026 at age 56, according to CBS News. On July 30, 2026, CBS News published an “From the archives” rerun of a 2013 Sunday Morning profile that featured Hansard’s reflections on his early life and rise in music, as well as the circumstances that helped elevate his work from local performances to international acclaim.

The CBS segment is dated March 17, 2013, and it is anchored by an interview with CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason. In the profile, Hansard discusses growing up in Dublin and performing as a street entertainer, setting up the early chapter of his music career that he later described as influential to his development as a songwriter and performer.

The interview also looks at Hansard’s meteoric rise to fame through two key collaborations. CBS describes his ascent in the rock band The Frames, and his later success alongside Markéta Irglová as one half of the duo The Swell Season. The CBS piece situates those projects as part of a broader trajectory that culminated in Once, which both generated major film recognition and became material for the stage.

Once is referenced in the CBS description as an Oscar-winning project, and the CBS News package also notes that Once later became a Tony Award-winning musical. The CBS archive interview therefore functions as a cultural snapshot of the period when Hansard’s career had already become internationally visible, but before the full shape of the stage phenomenon reached mainstream theater audiences.

Beyond tracing collaborations, the profile format provides viewers with Hansard’s perspective on the craft and conditions of building an audience. In the CBS account, the street-performance background in Dublin is presented as a formative influence, which Hansard connects to the experience of performing music in front of real-time audiences rather than through conventional pathways.

CBS’s decision to publish the “From the archives” piece on July 30 places the interview back in circulation as a companion to the news of Hansard’s death. The move highlights how the broadcaster treats major creative figures, using past reporting to contextualize the careers and themes associated with public recognition.

For fans and readers following Hansard’s legacy, the CBS archive profile is also a way to revisit the narrative arc that CBS described: street performance in Dublin, breakthrough with The Frames, and the subsequent partnership with Irglová that formed The Swell Season, all leading to the body of work associated with Once’s film and stage honors.

As of publication of the archive page, CBS is presenting the 2013 interview as part of its standard programming library, giving audiences an earlier documented view of Hansard’s own commentary while the wider cultural record continues to respond to his death. The CBS post directs readers to the original video presentation and framing used in Sunday Morning’s “From the archives” series.

CBS’s archived framing does not add new biographical details beyond what is summarized in the description; rather, it repackages the earlier interview in light of the recent news. Viewers are therefore directed to the 2013 interview for Hansard’s own remarks, while the death notice provides the updated context for why the archival segment has resurfaced now.