The streets of Dublin were Glen Hansard’s first musical home, training ground, and performance stage. It’s not necessarily good energy or bad energy, it’s just an energy that draws people in.” And there are always the people who are unimpressed with the public performance of an unsolicited sidewalk serenade. Sometimes, this can be innocuous; people are simply preoccupied as they move from Point A to Point B. Luckily for Hansard, even after logging nearly four decades of busking experience, he has rarely experienced the darker side of street performance.