Pink Flag Burning

After an hour-and-a-half set, Hansard did an encore of encores. First he had the jaded Silver Lake crowd ahh-ah-ahhing a tender chorus; then he sang a snatch from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’s “Pure Imagination”; then he got the audience to join him in Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”: “Won’t you help to sing/these songs of freedom/All I ever had/redemption songs, redemption songs, redemption songs.” (Alec Hanley Bemis)