Audience member commits suicide during show by Irglová and group Swell Season

A member of the audience committed suicide during a concert by the Czech musician Markéta Irglová and her group The Swell Season in the US city of Saratoga on Thursday night. The man jumped from the roof that covered the venue’s stage, landing on the podium and dying instantly. The band extended their sympathies to the victim’s family and friends in an internet post. Markéta Irglová and The Swell Season’s Glen Hansard won an Academy Award for best original song for their composition Falling Slowly in February 2008, just days before her 20th birthday. She is the only Czech woman to have ever won an Oscar.

Author: Ian Willoughby