Monday's Trailheads

Glen Hansard Made Beautiful Music by Kyle Smith Musicians have a rare gift in that their art is inherently social. They don’t need to fumble their way toward forging deep bonds with others. What they do dissolves barriers: age, sex, ethnicity, class, shyness and relative levels of fame melt away. The dinner-party scene recalls a story Mr. Hansard used to tell about his life. When he was a busker,…