The venue that Isaac finds is always a great show – probably because of the Neville Brothers is the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA.
In a stream, Zac mentioned that there is a song that he and Isaac sometimes sing different lyrics for during live performances. What is the song?
Wedneday Jan 4
All Day – Arrivals
10pm – HANSON Live Show
Thursday Jan 5
10am GREEN pass – Side Excursions
11am RED – Tie Dye
4:30pm ISAAC solo
8pm HANSON show
10:30pm Cards Against Humanity with ZAC
After- Late Night Bonfire
Friday Jan 6
10am RED pass – Side Excursions
11am GREEN – Tie Dye
4:30pm TAYLOR solo
8pm John Fullbright & Andrew Ripp
10:30pm Family Feud with ISAAC
After – Late Night Bonfire
Saturday Jan 7
12:30pm PHOTOS w/ the Band
4:30pm ZAC solo
6pm Grand Beach Banquet
8pm HANSON show
10:30pm Afterparty with TAYLOR
Sunday Jan 8
All Day – Depatures
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TULSA, Okla. – Quick Facts:
The Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, OKPOP, will be located across from Cain’s Ballroom
David Sharp donated the land near Main and Easton
Planning begins in 2017, groundbreaking happens in 2018
The museum will open in late 2019
An underground parking lot will offer 100 spaces
350 collections from Oklahoma artists were donated, including Leon Russell’s last piano
The OKPop Museum will call the Brady District home thanks to a land donation.
The location of the museum was part of debate as organizers looked at different areas across Green Country. The home will be across from Cain’s Ballroom, near Main and Easton.
With Zac’s tweets last night including some videos from Snowed In and the new Christmas album, many news outlets have picked up on it. We’ve already posted a couple of articles in full, but here are a few more that popped up overnight.
Hanson Releases Epic Songs From New Christmas Album ‘Wintery Mix’ — Watch Videos (Hollywood Life)
Hanson hoping for festive success with Christmas album (Xpose)
Hanson to Release New Christmas Album in 2017 (CBS 8)
Hanson will release a Christmas album in 2017 (Sunday World)
Hanson Will Release New Christmas Album Next Year, Drops New Videos to Celebrate! (Just Jared)
Taylor Hanson speaks during a news conference announcing the location of the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Oklahoma Museum of Pop Culture, known as OKPOP, across from Cain’s Ballroom. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
With the OKPOP Museum looking at several “good” locations in the Brady Arts District earlier this year but struggling to find the “ideal” spot, one of Tulsa’s most famous musicians quietly met with organizers to suggest a new possibility — a site so seemingly perfect that it left people wondering why they hadn’t thought of it before.
The project bounced around to several potential locations after the idea was broached in 2007 to build an Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture. Officials first considered a parking lot west of the Brady Theater, then focused on property owned by the Bank of Oklahoma near the Boston Avenue pedestrian bridge, where construction would have included a large parking garage for bank employees. By last summer, OKPOP seemed destined for a site near ONEOK Field, where the Tulsa Development Authority was seeking proposals for redevelopment.
“All of those sites were good,” said Bob Blackburn, the executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society. “But all of them had drawbacks.”
Taylor Hanson had another idea. Across the street from the landmark Cain’s Ballroom, at 423 N. Main St., sat a vacant lot with high visibility from Interstate 244 — all the better for helping tourists find the museum. And its proximity to Cain’s — “the home of Bob Wills” and one of the most famous music venues in the state — already made the location what Blackburn described Thursday as “sacred ground for artists and the creative community” in Oklahoma.
“It’s the perfect location,” he said. “We had other possibilities, but this was the right one.”
If possible, “perfect” got even better when David Sharp, one of the largest property owners in downtown Tulsa, agreed to donate the land — valued at roughly $1 million. Taking up a quarter of a city block, the land currently provides paid parking for Cain’s.
Expected to break ground in early 2018 and open by the end of 2019, the 40,000-square-foot museum hopes to become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Oklahoma by featuring exhibits on some of the biggest stars in the country, including Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood and Kristin Chenoweth. And OKPOP will include underground parking, with fees helping to fund the museum’s daily operations, officials said. Design and construction will be funded by $25 million in state bonds, while daily operations will be offset by parking fees in an underground garage that will serve the museum and other nearby attractions in the Brady Arts District, officials said.
Officials announced Thursday that the museum will hold the personal collection of Leon Russell, who helped create and popularize the mix of rockabilly and country music known as the Tulsa Sound. Russell died in November, but with a grant from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, OKPOP was already negotiating to buy his collection, including his most recent piano as well as more than 2,500 master recordings.
“We’re building a place where creativity can come home” to Oklahoma, said Taylor Hanson, a Tulsa-bred musician who — along with brothers Isaac and Zac — has sold more than 16 million records worldwide.
Mayor G.T. Bynum hopes the museum will inspire a new generation of Oklahoma musicians and artists.
“They will do great things,” Bynum said, “because they came to this museum and realized what is possible.”
About OKPOP
What: The museum is a place to “collect, preserve and share” Oklahoma’s cultural assets. Emphasis will be placed on how those assets have influenced pop culture as a whole. Collections include artifacts, photographs, manuscripts, archival material, film, video and interviews.
Construction will also include building a 100-space parking garage to go beneath the museum and serve nearby businesses.
Where: 422 N. Main St., directly across the street from Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District
Timeline: Plans for the museum were first announced in 2007. The Oklahoma Legislature approved the museum’s $25 million bond issue in May 2015. Construction will begin in early 2018. Museum will likely open by the end of 2019.
It’s not even Dec. 25, but we already know what we want for Christmas next year: Hanson’s new Christmas album.
Zac Hanson took to the band’s Twitter Thursday to reveal the title of the previously announced album: Ooh Christmas. He told fans that the band “just finished” recording and that “Winter Wonderland” will be among the tracks.
The boy band released a veritable bounty of video goodies in tandem with the announcement, including footage of the recording session. Don’t miss the genesis for the album title: Taylor Hanson sings a groovy version of “Blue Christmas” and really puts the “Ooh” in “Blue.”
Their production partner Mark Hudson objects, saying “You know that’s supposed to be a ‘blue’ and not an ‘ooh.’ You can ‘ooh’ if you want to, but it’s the title of the song.” “I think ‘ooh’ Christmas might really take off. Welcome to an ‘ooh’ Christmas,” replies Taylor. “I”m recutting a song called ‘OOHBop.’ It’s coming out next week,” jokes Hudson, before saying, “I think it should be the title.”
Hanson released two more videos featuring never-before-seen vintage footage from the recording of their first Christmas album, 1997’s Snowed In. There’s no release date for the album yet.
See the tweets and videos below:
20 years ago we made Snowed In. Just finished a new Christmas album for 2017 -Z https://youtu.be/ueRMiD-busY via @YouTube
HANSON’s New Christmas Album: Ooh Christmas -Z https://youtu.be/1ZvBr3bJZgQ via @YouTube
Live version of Winter Wonderland, studio version will be on the new Christmas album in 2017 -Z https://youtu.be/86kfYFNDtNA via @YouTube
Hansonstage Note: This article mentions that the album is going to be titled “Ooh Christmas”, as far as we can tell, this is just the name of one of the videos that the band posted and the working title for the album is still “Wintry Mix”
Consider your holiday dreams fulfilled. Something big has hit the airwaves for every boy band fan out there. (That’s every living person, right?) I’m talking about Hanson’s new Christmas Album. On Thursday, the band tweeted the album’s title: Ooh Christmas. (Mmm Christmas was taken, I guess?) They also revealed one of the album’s tracks — “Winter Wonderland” — and even shared a live recording of it. Following that, they gifted us with a behind the scenes video featuring two thirds of the three Hanson brothers singing and playing piano for “Blue Christmas.” Naturally, it’s in falsetto. Taylor Hanson belts out Blue-oo-oo-ooh Christmas. Oh. Now I get the title.
What makes the release of this album so good, besides all the obvious reasons, is that it’s been 20 years since Hanson put out their first Christmas album: 1997’s Snowed In. “MMMBop” was recorded in 1996, and Hanson’s album Middle of Nowhere went platinum four times, so it’s fair to say Snowed In came out during the peak of their career. As one of the most iconic musical trios from that time, the Christmas album became a success. (The Hanson bros were inescapable in ’97.)
Snowed In was also probably one of the most played Christmas albums of your youth. If that’s the case, then, here, the following never-before-seen footage from that album’s recording will mean something to you:
20 years ago we made Snowed In. Just finished a new Christmas album for 2017 -Z https://youtu.be/ueRMiD-busY via @YouTube
The hearts that beat inside children of the ’90s are fluttering everywhere. But check out just how far they’ve come — and be prepared to feel some nostalgia when you see how they’ve grown up.
HANSON’s New Christmas Album: Ooh Christmas -Z https://youtu.be/1ZvBr3bJZgQ via @YouTube
Lastly, give your ears a treat with the live version of “Winter Wonderland.” (The studio version of which, will be on the album.)
Live version of Winter Wonderland, studio version will be on the new Christmas album in 2017 -Z https://youtu.be/86kfYFNDtNA via @YouTube
The highly anticipated album doesn’t have an official release date, so stay tuned. In the meantime, pop in Snowed In for old time’s sake, yeah?
The concert that Taylor said was the beginning of another era was the Carnegie Hall concert in 2003.
What city/venue does Isaac find is always a great show every time they play there and credits its to The Neville Brotheres?
If you frequent the Hanson.net forums, you may be familiar with Laura or her username Lautje85. In the past, she has hosted 4 walks in the Netherlands for the Take The Walk Campaign and is active in other parts of the community as well. In January, she will be taking the trip to Jamaica for Hanson’s Back to the Island event. She had been looking for ways to help out and give back while in Jamaica and has made contact with an orphanage in Montego Bay. If you are attending BTTI and have some room to spare in your suitcase, please consider bringing some of the following supplies for Laura to collect and bring. Laura is hoping to visit on Wednesday during BTTI but will be bringing more supplies on Monday when she flies back and there is also a concierge at the hotel that volunteers at a school so any other supplies that don’t make it to the orphanage will still be getting good use by the children of Jamaica.
For the babies:
Stuffed animals & soft toys
For the pre-schoolers:
Coloring & art books
Markers & crayons (any size)
pens & pencils
erasers
arts & crafts materials (great need)
large print story books
For the teens:
art books & journals
pens & pencils
stationery (rulers, erasers, etc.)
school bags
black, blue or brown socks
The donations will be split between two homes. One houses 38 children aged birth to 9 years. The other home houses 30 children.
If you’re going to BTTI but would rather donate than bring supplies or are not going to BTTI at all but would still like to help Laura and the orphanage out, donations can be made via her gofundme page. Donations made via gofundme will be used for additional supplies as well as to help fund her $150 roundtrip transport to deliver the supplies. Any money left over will be directly donated.
