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Hanson Announces Lineup For Third-Annual Hop Jam

By Katie | March 15, 2016

Photo of Hanson performing, from the band's web site.

TULSA, Oklahoma –Hanson announced the lineup for its 3rd annual Hop Jam Craft Beer and Music Festival Monday.

The 2016 event will take place on Sunday, May 22 in the Brady Arts District. According to the event’s web site, more than 60 breweries will be on site, representing at least 20 states and 10 countries.

The main stage will be feature Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Albert Hammond Jr., X Ambassadors, Tulsa’s own John Moreland, Chase Kerby + The Villains.

Hanson itself will present the main stage music lineup.

Visit the Hop Jam web site.

The group says it wants to create a richer event experience by offering a broader ticket selection this year. The plan includes new premium Craft Beer VIP tickets with even earlier access, special Hop Talks featuring a panel of craft brewers and access to a special indoor space including all-day food and beverages.

The Main Street-centered craft beer area will double in size and the band will add a beer garden and games lawn. It will also expand the all-ages area of the festival to include the Guthrie Green.

Hanson will also raise funds to support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma through the raffle of a custom-made Hop Guitar, crafted after the festival logo, and signed by brewers and artists taking part in the event.

The Hop Jam Beer & Music Festival 2016

By Katie | March 14, 2016

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THE HOP JAM 2016

HANSON ANNOUNCES 3^rdANNUAL HOP JAM BEER AND MUSIC FESTIVAL MAY 22^nd

EXPANDED SITE FEATURES:
TWICE THE BREWERIES, MORE ALL-AGES ACTIVITIES, NEW TICKETING OPTIONS

CONCERT FEATURES:
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS,
ALBERT HAMMOND JR., X AMBASSADORS & MORE

TICKETS ON SALE TODAY, MARCH 14^TH AT THEHOPJAM.COM

HANSON is excited to announce their 3^rd annual Hop Jam Craft Beer and Music Festival for Sunday May 22^nd, with tickets going on sale today at TheHopJam.com. After record attendance two years running, the celebrated downtown festival set in Tulsa’s thriving Brady Arts District is focused on providing a richer experience for festival-goers, with more family activities and twice as many attending breweries as last year. More than 60 breweries will be on site, representing 20 states and more than 10 countries. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros will headline the main stage, which will also feature performances from a diverse lineup including Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes), X Ambassadors, John Moreland, Chase Kerby + The Villains and more.

“We’re really proud of the awesome lineup of artists and brewers joining the festival, all of whom will help to make it the best Hop Jam yet”, said co-founder Taylor Hanson. “Headlining the first two years was exhilarating, but playing a different role this year is equally exciting for us.”

The Hop Jam is also offering a more extensive ticket selection to all guests this year. The new premium Hop Head VIP beer ticket includes even earlier access, special Hop Talks featuring a panel of craft brewers, and access to a special indoor space including all day food and beverages. The new premium Hop Jam Music VIP tickets include reserved seating in the festival main stage area, with all day food and beverages in an indoor space available to all ages.

The festival site is also expanding significantly, with the craft beer area doubling in size, and also adding a beer garden and games lawn, while the all-ages area of the festival is expanding to encompass the new Hop Jam Park, at Guthrie Green, catering to family friendly activities and entertainment.

The popular statewide opening band contest will continue to be hosted in partnership with theTulsa World, providing an opportunity for the winning artist to perform the opening set on the festival main stage. Extending the opportunity to local musicians, the top runners up will also win the opportunity to perform at the new Park Stage at Guthrie Green.

The Hop Jam will again raise funds to support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma through the raffle of a custom-made Hop Guitar, crafted after the festival logo, and signed by brewers and artists taking part in the event. The family activities and a special auction in the Hop Jam Park area will also help support another Tulsa non-profit, Emergency Infant Services, who work to provide for the needs of infants and children whose families are in crisis.

For The Hop Jam 2016, HANSON are again partnering with Oklahoma favorite the McNellie’s Group to host the beer festival. These two organizations have a shared interest in cultivating the craft beer community and fostering world-class events in the state.

Hop Jam Tickets On Sale Now

By Katie | March 14, 2016

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The Hop Jam Beer & Music Festival is still a free event. If you’d like to purchase a VIP Upgrade, tickets are available now at TicketStorm

TICKET DETAILS:

Unlimited Craft Beer Ticket (21+) – $35.00
-Unlimited Beer Tasting
-Commemorative Hop Jam Tasting Cup
-Event Lanyard

Hop Head Ticket (21+) – $50.00
-Early Entry To The Festival (1 hour early)
-Limited Edition Hop Head Hat
-Unlimited Beer Tasting
-Commemorative Hop Jam Tasting Cup
-Event Lanyard

Hop Snob Ticket (21+) – $65.00
-Hop Talks featuring exclusive panels of attending Brewmasters
-Early Entry To The Festival (2 hours early)
-Limited Edition Hop Head Hat
-Unlimited Beer Tasting
-Commemorative Hop Jam Tasting Cup
-Event Lanyard

Craft Beer VIP Ticket (21+) – $150.00
-Craft Beer VIP Lounge Access (Indoor lounge with air conditioning, seating, real bathrooms, food, unlimited water, soft drinks & featured craft beers)
-Hop Talks featuring exclusive panels of attending Brewmasters
-Early Entry To The Festival (2 hours early)
-Limited Edition Hop Head Hat
-Unlimited Beer Tasting
-Commemorative Hop Jam Tasting Cup
-Event Lanyard

Music VIP Ticket (All-Ages) – $65.00
-Reserved concert seating area
-Music VIP Lounge Access (Indoor lounge with air conditioning, seating, real bathrooms, food, unlimited water, soft drinks & featured craft beers)

Happy Birthday Taylor!

By Katie | March 14, 2016

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Today Taylor turns 33. Happy Birthday Taylor!

Hanson announces lineup for third Hop Jam, start of the opening band contest

By Katie | March 14, 2016

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Tulsa World

Zac, Isaac, and Taylor Hanson in their office to promote Hop Jam. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

The brothers of Hanson are looking forward to a different experience this year at their third Hop Jam Beer and Music Festival.

It will be the first year that Hanson is not headlining its event. The 2016 Hop Jam will be bigger than ever, with more music and more beer than previous years, but the Hanson brothers will be watching from the audience.

“It’s like this: It’s not an annual Hanson show. It’s an annual Hanson party,” said Zac Hanson last week from their studio in the Brady Arts District. “That means we want to take the stage a lot, but we want to be able to mix it up and add variety. You don’t want people to take it for granted. New beer, new bands, bigger footprint.”

Headlining the 2016 Hop Jam will be indie folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The lineup will also feature The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., alt rock band X Ambassadors and Tulsa singer-songwriter John Moreland.

Like the previous two years, Hanson and the Tulsa World will host an Opening Band Contest, soliciting submissions from Oklahoma bands that want to open the Hop Jam festival.

The event is set for May 22 in the Brady Arts District. Admission is once again free. Tickets can be purchased for beer sales, and VIP packages will be available.

And speaking of beer, this year will see the number of brewers more than tripled from the first event.

“We had 15 breweries the first year. We’ll have 60 this year,” Taylor Hanson said.

It will include brewers from 20 states and more than 10 countries, including most if not all of the brewers in Oklahoma.

Last year’s festival saw the beer section, limited to those age 21 and older, expand north on Main Street past Cameron Street. But this year, the festival is expanding east.

The Guthrie Green will be incorporated into this year’s festival, creating an all-ages family area with kids activities throughout the downtown park.

It will also be a place to hear even more live, local music. Of the submissions to the Opening Band Contest, which is now open, five will be chosen as finalists by Hanson. Voting by the public will commence, and the winning band will open the show on the main stage of the festival. The other four bands will play on the Guthrie Green stage.

“If you’re one of the top bands, you’re going to play the festival,” Taylor Hanson said. “There will be a real balance between set changeover so people can catch more shows throughout the day.”

Submissions may be made starting at 9 a.m. Monday at tulsaworld.com/hopjam. Submissions will close at 11:59 p.m. April 18. Once the finalists are chosen, voting will begin April 25 and close May 6.

Fans will get a preview of the festival with the five bands in the running will play Fassler Hall for the Hop Jam Pub Crawl, set for May 2. More details on the Pub Crawl will be announced.

As Hanson steps aside this year, the band hopes to lay the groundwork for future Hop Jam festivals where the band is not the headline attraction, but still plays a big role in putting on a festival that reaches a broad audience.

“The thing we’re building is not Hanson, it’s not Edward Sharpe, it’s not Robert Randolph. It’s Hop Jam,” Taylor Hanson said.

“The first reason that you’re going is because you know that event is at a quality level and you’re going to go. It’s still a one-day event. It’s a tight group of really engaging performers. They’re a part of something … the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

Taylor, Zac and Isaac Hanson promote Hop Jam, which is slated for May 22. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

Zac (left), Isaac, and Taylor Hanson are looking forward to hosting the third Hop Jam Beer and Music Festival on May 22. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

Taylor, Zac and Isaac Hanson are looking forward to the third Hop Jam music and beer festival in Tulsa. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

Hop Jam 2016

By Katie | March 14, 2016

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We’re excited to announce the 3rd annual Hop Jam Craft Beer and Music Festival on Sunday May 22nd. After record attendance for two years running, the celebrated downtown festival will again take place in Tulsa’s thriving Brady Arts District, and we’re focused on providing a richer experience for you, with a new 2nd stage, family activities and double last year’s attending breweries. Event tickets are available now for purchase here.

More than 60 breweries will be on site, representing 20+ states and 10+ countries. The diverse craft offering reflects our mission to feature a wide variety of breweries, while also establishing a platform for new craft breweries to enter the Oklahoma market for the first time, helping to draw attention to the thriving local scene.

The main stage will be headlined by a dynamic live performance from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, as well as Albert Hammond Jr., X Ambassadors, Tulsa’s own John Moreland, Chase Kerby + The Villains and more. HANSON will continue to curate and present the main stage music lineup.

We’re also hoping to create a richer event experience by offering a broader ticket selection this year. New premium Craft Beer VIP tickets include even earlier access, special Hop Talks featuring a panel of craft brewers, and access to a special indoor space including all day food and beverages. Premium Hop Jam Music VIP tickets include reserved seating in the festival main stage area, with all day food and beverages in an indoor space available to all ages.

We’re excited to bring back the hugely popular state-wide opening band contest in partnership with the Tulsa World, which will provide an opportunity for an Oklahoma artist to perform the opening set on the festival main stage. We’ve also added a new Park Stage at Guthrie Green, so we can extend more opportunities for local bands – the top runners in the contest will win the chance to perform on that second stage.

Our site is expanding dramatically, with the Main Street-centered craft beer area doubling in size, and also adding a beer garden and games lawn. The all-ages area of the festival is expanding to encompass the Guthrie Green, to provide space for more family oriented activities and entertainment.

We are excited to partner with you again to raise funds to support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma through the raffle of a custom-made Hop Guitar, crafted after the festival logo, and signed by brewers and artists taking part in the event. The family activities and a special auction in the Hop Jam Park area will also help support another Tulsa non-profit, Emergency Infant Services, who work to provide for the needs of infants and children whose families are in crisis.

HNET Newsletter Mar 11, 2016

By Katie | March 11, 2016

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WEEKLY PIC

Here’s Zac painting for the gallery for HANSON Day. Excited to share what he’s working on with you all. Who’s joining us?

MESSAGE FROM THE BAND

This week we released a new collaboration we did with some friends here in Tulsa at Dead Armadillo Brewing: The Inland Porter. It is a limited release only available in Oklahoma, but we are really excited to see how people respond to it and it only seems appropriate to be sharing new beer with the announcement of The Hop Jam 2016 line up on Monday. Like a big birthday present for Taylor, Monday we will be announcing the list of breweries and the lineup of bands taking the stage at this year’s Hop Jam. Beer + Music = Awesome and in 2016 we plan to have more of both than ever.

HANSON Day continues to take shape. We have been pulling together all the tracks for Karaoke, working on the paintings for the HANSON Day Gallery and maybe most exciting, finalizing plans to record the 2016 members EP at the end of this month. All week we have been talking about music, and how we want to make more of it. It sounds like a funny thing coming from a band, but it’s something we talk about all the time and with a little luck we will make it happen in 2016. More to come next week.

Isaac, Taylor and Zac

HANSON DAY 2016

FAN CLUB EXCLUSIVE!

“We look forward to HANSON Day every year. In a way it is the start of our year, and really who wouldn’t want to start their year sharing new music, paintings and stories from the past 20 years”-Zac Hanson

All Hanson.net fan club members get free admission to the HANSON Day concert, State of The Band talk and the HANSON Day Art Gallery. There are also special ticketed events like the I Heart 2 Bowl Tournament, Dance Party, the HANSON Day Lectures, and More…

For details, CLICK HERE

HANSON BROTHERS BEER

Try Hanson Brothers Beer Companies newest collaboration: Inland Porter.

Event
Inland Porter Release Party
Fassler Hall
Tulsa, OK
March 21st at 7pm

Event
Inland Porter Release Party
Fassler Hall
Oklahoma City, OK
March 22nd at 7pm

2013 – 2014 PICTURES BOOK ON SALE

Get 25% off of the 2013-2014 Pictures book today through March 18th.

Discount Code: 25OFF

BACK TO THE ISLAND 2017

Back To The Island Returns to Jamaica in 2017!

After an incredible event in Jamaica to start off 2016, we are thrilled to announce plans to do it all again, January 4th – 8th, 2017! We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from guests saying Back To The Island 2016 was the best ever, from the location in Jamaica to the amenities at the Jewel Paradise Cove, so we’re happy to announce we are planning to return, and we hope you will, too!

We plan to maintain all of the elements that everyone loved while continuing to add more fun for return Islanders, so no matter whether it’s your first or your fifth time to join us, it will be an incredible experience.

For all the details, click here.

And don’t forget to check out videos from this year’s trip here!

Hanson brothers refuse to be one-hit wonder in brewery world, release limited new brew

By Katie | March 10, 2016

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Fox 23

ULSA, Okla. —

Quick facts:

The Hanson brothers released a new beer.
The Inland Porter was made by the brothers’ brewery and the Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing.
The beer is named after the Port of Catoosa.

The Hanson brothers refuse to be a one-hit wonder in the brewery world, and they have released a follow-up to their Mmmhops brew.

Hanson Brothers Beer partnered with Tulsa’s Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing for a new beer.

FOX23 Cailey Dougherty talked to the Hanson brothers about the new brew

The Hanson brothers say they wanted to lift up Tulsa beer and the great brewers we have. They partnered with a Tulsa brewery to bring a new craft beer to store shelves this week. FOX23 at 10:15.

Posted by FOX23 Cailey Doughertyon Wednesday, March 9, 2016

The new craft beer, called the Inland Porter, hit shelves this week. The beer is named after the Port of Catoosa.

Wholesalers began picking up the beer Monday, and it is now on shelves. Only 75 cases of the beer have been brewed at this time.

A launch party for the new brew will be held March 21 at Fassler Hall in downtown Tulsa at 7. Another launch will take place the next day at Fassler Hall in Oklahoma City.

The Hanson brothers said they wanted to bring the world a light Tulsa beer from the brewers in town.

What the Ale: Hanson Brothers Beer Co., Dead Armadillo collaborate on beer

By Katie | March 8, 2016

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Tulsa World

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Isaac Hanson (left), Zac Hanson, Mason Beecroft and Taylor Hanson pose with their new beer at Dead Armadillo Brewery Co.’s brewhouse at 1004 E. Fourth St. on Monday. Hanson Brothers Beer Co. and Dead Armadillo Brewing Co. have teamed up with a collaboration beer called Inland Porter, named after Tulsa’s Port of Catoosa. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

Beer brings a lot of people together, even rock stars and former Lutheran pastors.

Hanson Brothers Beer Co. and Dead Armadillo Brewing Co. are teaming up for a beer that will be on store shelves by the end of this week.

The Hanson brothers have sold millions of records and started a beer company because they are passionate about craft beer. The same is true of Dead Armadillo’s brewmaster Mason Beecroft. The former Lutheran pastor turned brewmaster knows his beers.

The collaboration between the companies means one thing for consumers: great craft beers. The beer they came up with is called Inland Porter, named after Tulsa’s Port of Catoosa, the most inland river port in the United States.

“Really the collaboration started with saying, ‘How can we start brewing with these guys? How can we bring in some more beer?’” Taylor Hanson said.

“The next conversation was let’s do something together. It’s a way of saying hey we are brewing together, we’re working together, we are both proud of Tulsa. This beer was born out of those conversations,” Hanson said.

There is a reason they chose a porter for their collaboration brew.

“I have a special affection for porters; it was the first beer that turned me on to craft beer,” Beecroft said. “It’s an American version of a traditional English session beer that comes in a 6.5 percent alcohol by volume. I think it hit the mark for being a nice seasonable porter.”

Isaac Hanson has another way of knowing if a beer is a hit. “My wife said, ‘You are going to make a dark beer?’ Then I poured it for her and she went, ‘Oh, pour me another.’ That is a good problem to have,” he said.

This limited-release beer is scheduled to be shipped out this week and should be in liquor stores soon. But there is another way to try it. The Hansons and Dead Armadillo crew will be at Fassler Hall, 304 S. Elgin Ave., on March 21 for a pint night to celebrate Inland Porter, and on March 22 in Oklahoma City’s Fassler Hall, 421 N.W. 10th St., they will do it again.

If you don’t get to the liquor store or to Fassler Hall, you will have other opportunities to try some beers from the collaboration. Both companies plan on more collaboration beers in the future.

“We are excited for people to just try it. With Hanson Brothers, we are going to start introducing a lot of seasonable beers and are really excited about turning people on to new flavors. This is just a little bit of a taste of that from us and the Dead Armadillo guys,” Taylor Hanson said.

Tuesday Trivia

By Katie | March 8, 2016

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TuesdayTrivia

The Jurassic Park line Hanson tried to write into “Unbelievable” is “Hold onto your butts”

What inspired the 2015 Hanson Day gallery?