1. Fired Up 2. I've Got Soul
3. You Can’t Stop Us Now
4. Get The Girl Back
5. Juliet
6. Already Home
7. For Your Love
8. Lost Without You
9. Cut Right Through Me
10. Scream and Be Free
11. Tragic Symphony
12. Tonight
Encore – Save Me From Myself
Song titles previously mentioned not in the track list
Stay Here In My Arms Tonight
Pleasure With The Pain
Get So Low
St Louis, MO
Uncorked
June 15
Silver Springs, MD
Fillmore
June 17
New York, NY
Irving Plaza
June 18
New York, NY
Irving Plaza
July 18
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vorterix
July 20
Rio De Janerio, Brazil
Citibank Hall
July 21
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Credicard Hall
August 28
Des Moines, IA
Simon Estes Riverfront Amphitheater
August 31
Boston, MA
House of Blues
September 1
Long Island, NY
Paramount
September 2
Bethlehem, PA
Sands Casino Event Center
September 4
Richmond, VA
The National
September 8
Atlanta, GA
Variety Playhouse
September 9
Birmingham, AL
Workplay Theater
September 10
Nashville, TN
Wildhorse Saloon
September 11
Memphis, TN
Minglewood Hall
September 12
New Orleans, LA
House of Blues
September 15
Austin, TX
Antones
September 16
Dallas, TX
House of Blues
September 17
Albuquerque, NM
Kimo Theater
September 18
Denver, CO
Bluebird
September 20
Salt Lake City, UT
The Depot
September 21
Las Vegas, NV
Fremont Country Club
September 22
Tucson, AZ
Rialto
September 24
San Diego, CA
House of Blues
September 25
Anaheim, CA
House of Blues
September 26
Los Angeles, CA
House of Blues
September 28
Portland, OR
Aladdin
September 30
Seattle, WA
Neumos
October 2
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Vogue Theater
October 4
Regina, SK, CANADA
Casino
October 5
Calgary, AB, CANADA
Chrome Showroom (Deerfoot Casino)
October 7
Sherwood Park, AB, CANADA
Festival Place
October 8
Saskatoon, SK, CANADA
Odeon Event Center
October 9
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
McPhillips Station Casino
October 10
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
McPhillips Station Casino
October 12
Milwaukee, WI
Pabst
October 13
Chicago, IL
House of Blues
October 14
Chicago, IL
House of Blues
October 15
Lawrence, KS
Granada
October 17
St Louis, MO
Pageant
October 18
Cincinnati, OH
Bogarts
October 19
Cleveland, OH
House of Blues
Ocotber 20
Detroit, MI
Crofoot
November 7
Philadelphia, PA
TLA
November 8
Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Music Hall
November 9
Toronto, ON, CANADA
Danforth Music Hall
November 10
Montreal, QC, CANADA
Corona Theatre
November 12
Fredricton, NB, CANADA
The Playhouse
November 14
Halifax, NS, CANADA
Casino Nova Scotia
November 15
Halifax, NS, CANADA
Casino Nova Scotia
November 16
Summerside, PEI, CANADA
Harbourfront Theatre
November 17
Moncton, NB, CANADA
Casino
November 20
Charlotte, NC
Amos
January 10
Negril, Jamaica
Back To The Island II
Rachael
SF Entrepreneur Lighting Up Stages
Since we last talked to Nesbitt, he’s been drumming up plenty of fanfare for his LED musical light kits.
“There are some growing pains,” Nesbitt said. “We never thought that it would grow as big or as fast as it has, but that’s a great problem to have.”
In the past nine months, Nesbitt’s created a music phenomenon that’s swept the nation and snared some of the biggest musical acts, from the late 90s…
“Zac Hanson from Hanson, if you remember the song ‘Mmmbop,’” Nesbitt said.
…all the way to something a little more current.
“Sugarland; they bought some lights from us and a few others just here or there,” Nesbitt said.
Nesbitt admits he was jealous his business partner took the call from Sugarland. But his phone may be lighting up with more artists looking to light up the stage.
“It was kind of a shock because we’re just now getting some of the big names to call us,” Nesbitt said. “But any time you have someone from a national act like that call you up and say that they want to put your product in front of all those fans, it’s a huge honor.”
Nesbitt says the concept for his idea was simple: finding a way to change the drum industry. And while nine months is a small sample size, the beat goes on.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re playing in your basement or a sold out arena, it’s all the same,” Nesbitt said. “They just make playing more enjoyable.”
Nesbitt says he’s expanded his light kits to other instruments including keyboards, guitars and even banjos. His dream is to get the band The Black Keys to use his product.
Summerfest 2012
HANSON is pleased to anounce they will appear at the 45th annual Summerfest at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, WI on July 8, 2012. The band will perform on the Potowatomi Stage. For more information on Summerfest, click here.
Hanson 30 Day Challenge: Day 10
For the month of April, we will be doing a “Hanson 30 day Challenge” each morning we will post a topic and encourage you to leave a comment with your answer. This should be a lot of fun and we are looking forward to seeing all the answers for each topic!
Song that makes you happy! (Try to limit it to no more than 3! It is a challenge after all!)
Can Hanson still MMMBop?
By the time you finish reading this article, Isaac, Taylor and Zac, or collectively known as Hanson, have just wrapped up another concert in Canada. Maybe they’re on their way back in the US to prepare for another tour.
The band that popularized the catchy bubblegum “MMMBop” visited the country last week for a two-night concert in Manila and Cebu. The Philippine visit is part of the Shout It Out World Tour that kicked off sometime in 2010 and was resumed in September 2011. The main goal of the tour is to promote Shout It Out, Hanson’s 8th studio album, originally released in June 2010.
For the Manila concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Hanson failed to fill up the venue. By estimate, the crowd occupied just 30 to 40 percent of the venue.
Hanson is still a good act, great act if you will. It’s only awkward for the audience to hear “MMMbop,” the band’s most popular and most successful single to date, sang a pitch or two lower. That is because Isaac, Zac, and more particularly Taylor (the band’s main vocalist) have all grown up and developed deeper voices.
Shout It Out tour is aimed to woe more fans but it seems unlikely in the Philippines.
Flop
It’s a gamble for concert promoters to bring foreign acts in the country most especially if the artists were popular in the past decades.
Case in point, 58-year-old Cyndi Lauper, who was at the Big Dome on March 17. The show was a big disappointment. But we believe the feeling was mutual because Cyndi’s entourage was expecting a big crowd but they were surprised to see Araneta Coliseum looking like a velodrome.
One good thing about it, Cyndi performed like she used to do when she was younger. She jumped up and down the stage and even went down reach out to her loyal followers.
Cyndi is a great artist. Although we can only count her hits with the fingers in one hand, poor publicity did the concert in. The concert producer focused more on radio advertising to promote Cyndi’s concert when in fact aggressive television, print and new media promotion can make a big difference to reach a target audience.
(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/April/11)