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This past week Taylor journeyed west to represent the Texas and Oklahoma members of the Recording Academy, connecting with an amazing music music community, and taking in the open road.
Slot Festival’s new artist releases: Aqua, Hanson, Paloma Faith and Titiyo
The Slot Festival, which was successfully launched in December, brings international star artists as well as domestic top performers to Turku Linnanpuisto in July. Aqua, Hanson, Paloma Faith and Titiyo X Sunnan will be seen alongside the previously announced headliners The Cardigans and Sugababes.
July 19–20 on the day in Turku’s historical Linnanpuisto, the Slot Festival will be organized for the first time. In addition to the previously announced headliners The Cardigans and Sugababes , four new international star artists are announced for the Slot Festival program: Aqua , Hanson , Paloma Faith and Titiyo X Sunnan .
The Danish eurodance group Aqua, which rocketed to new mega-popularity with the success of the Barbie movie, will arrive at Slot Festival. Aqua, who dominated disco dance floors in the 90s with her huge hit Barbie Girl, will be seen in Turku with a multi-talented live band. Also, Hanson, who was responsible for one of the biggest generational experiences of the late 90s with his MMMbop hit, will perform at Slot Festival, where the band made up of three brothers will play their first festival gig in Finland.
Slot Festival’s Friday program features soulful pop music superstar Paloma Faith. The artist known for his hits “Stone Cold Sober” and “Only Love Can Hurt Like This” was last seen in Finland in the summer of 2015 as one of the main performers of Pori Jazz. Saturday’s program features the Swedish artist Titiyo, known for the hit song Come Along, who has released six albums during his long career. Titiyo brings his 7-member band Sunnan to his gig at Slot Festival.
At the end of December, Slot Festival announced, in addition to The Cardigans and Sugababes, four high-level domestic artists: Egotrippi, Don Huonot, Kwan and Vesterinen Yhtyeinene. With today’s announcements, the day division of Slot Festival’s software is clear and the sale of one-day tickets has started.
The Slot Festival is organized by Sunborn Live from Turku, known for e.g. As the organizer of the Kesärauha festival. The Slot Festival is organized in Turku at the same time as the Tall Ships Races sailing event, which is expected to bring several thousand tourists to the city.
An Update on the Log In Issues
Good News and Bad News…
Good News is that I think I’ve (finally) corrected the issue that has been causing some accounts to be unable to log in.
The Bad News is that in order to implement it I am going to have to take the site down for a bit.
Tests I’ve done on a test database have been successful so I just need to do some tests on the actual site database and get the same results.
Expect the site to be down probably later this week and into the weekend
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but with any luck this will allow all users to actually log in again!
THE BIG SHOW OFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY FAITH GREEN
Beyond Perennial
What songs are you hoping Hanson plays during the Beyond Perennial concert at Hanson Day this year? The Hanson Day page says, “Hear rarely performed songs from their 2020 album Perennial, as well as many more from the massive archive of members only music.”
Perennial was released in 2020 and is a public collection of 20 previously released Hanson.net Members Only songs as well as the new song, “Nothing Like a Love Song”. There is quite a skew in the number of times the songs have been performed live ranging from 1 to 55. Which ones are you most hoping for as part of the Beyond Perennial setlist? How many songs do you think will end up being on the setlist? (For reference, 2022’s Storyteller’s set had 20 songs while 2023’s Underneath Acoustic revisited had 15.)
| Better Days | 1 |
| I Lift You Up | 1 |
| Bad For Me | 2 |
| Gold Miner | 4 |
| Panic in the Streets | 4 |
| Young and Dumb | 6 |
| Nothing Like a Love Song | 6 |
| Grace Unknown | 7 |
| Stop Me In My Tracks | 8 |
| Up All Night | 9 |
| The Ballad of Seymour Better Times | 13 |
| Leave the Light On | 15 |
| Ooh La La La | 18 |
| Be My Own | 19 |
| White Collar Crime | 23 |
| Down | 30 |
| Sunny Day | 32 |
| Never Let Go | 44 |
| Best of Times | 45 |
| I Don’t Want To Go Home | 50 |
| Roller Coaster Love | 55 |
Then of course there are several Members Only tracks that have *never* been performed live:
I Can’t Wait (2009)
All I Have To Give (2009)
Take My Time (2009)
Don’t Hide Your Tears (2015)
Miss You Like Crazy (2020)
All I Know (2020)
Strange World (2022)
Happy (2022)
And the following have been played 5 times or less:
End of the Line (2003) – 1
I Am (2007) – 5
Watershed (2007) – 2
Letters in the Mailbox (2009) – 3
Wait Here For You (2009) – 1
Devil’s Nachos (2009) – 2
This is the Jam (2010) -1
Bad Solution (2010) – 2
Ordinary Words (2010) -2
Too Young To Kill (2010) – 1
Live Forever (2010) – 4
Sonny Get Your Gun (2011) – 4
Show Me The Way (2014) – 1
What’s Your Name (2014) – 3
Panic in the Streets (2014) – 4
Give Me Your Best Shot (2015) – 2
Something Loud (2016) – 4
I Lift You Up (2017) – 1
Working (2018) – 2
Bad For Me (2018) – 2
Gold Miner (20128) – 4
Sophia (2018) – 1
Worth The Wait (2019) – 1
Reading Your Mind (2019) – 3
Better Days (2019) – 1
Change (2020) – 1
Begin Again (2020) – 4
Muscle Shoals (2021) – 1
Undivided Attention (2021) – 1
Come Over (2021) – 1
Missing, Needing, Wanting You (2021) – 3
Trembling (2022) – 1
Your Eyes (2022) – 2
Climb (2022) – 1
I’m Ready (2023) – 1
The Weight Of Emotion (2023) – 2
For You (2023) – 1
Where You Come From (2023) – 2
Meet at the Hotel Bar S2Ep8: Zac from Hanson
In today’s episode, we met up with the multi-instrumentalist talent that is Zac from the American pop rock band HANSON, in a hotel bar in The Westminster Hotel in London. Hanson, probably best known for their smash hit song MMMbop, have been nominated for 3 Grammys, and sold over 16 million records worldwide…May 6th has even been declared ‘Hanson Day’ in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Listening back to this episode had us in stitches laughing and we hope it does the same for you too, Zac had so much energy, and with 3 decades worth of tour stories we somehow managed to cram them into this episode, we couldn’t think of a better way to finish Series 2!
Stay tuned to hear stories of surviving stage invasions, what happens when 6000 people turn up to a small performance in a mall, how to act when the legs of your drum kit break mid-song forcing your kick drum to literally roll off stage, and what to do when presented with a decaying rotten apple in a glass cage which you apparently took a bite out of several years earlier!
This is Zac from HANSON coming up on ‘Meet At The Hotel Bar’
EXTRA: ZAC HANSON, DANNY BOY O’CONNOR, & OLIVIA JORDAN CAN’T WAIT TO SEE TULSA’S TALENT
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The Big Show Off is Tulsa’s most anticipated talent show; a benefit for the Tulsa Day Center happening February 3 at the Cox Business Center. Tess Maune is joined by the celebrity judges: Zac Hanson, Danny Boy O’Connor, and Olivia Jordan.
The Big Show Off is big talent for a big cause. It’s Tulsa’s most anticipated talent show; a benefit for the Tulsa Day Center happening February 3 at the Cox Business Center.
On the Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages Porch at 6 a.m., Tess Maune is joined by the celebrity judges who will determine which acts will walk away in first place with $10,000 and in second with $5,000.
2024 Recording Academy Honors Presented By The Black Music Collective
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 01: Taylor Hanson attends the 2024 Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective at Fairmont Century Plaza on February 01, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
HANSON: Making Plans
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Excited to return to Cain’s Ballroom for our 32nd Anniversary during HANSON Day weekend.
HANSON DAY: Tickets On-Sale February 8th
HANSON DAY 2024
HANSON Day is the premiere annual event for all things HANSON. The long weekend includes world premiere music, multiple concerts and a whole lot more, and every Hanson.net member is invited to join the celebration.
Over the years HANSON Day has evolved from a ceremonial marking of our bands birthday, to a bonafied multi-day festival. What once was only about a day, now acts as a gathering place for HANSON fans from around the country and the world, bringing our community together both literally and digitally to kick off yet another year of creativity. -Zac Hanson
Today we are excited to share the full schedule of events for our 2024 HANSON Day weekend. Starting today, head over to the HANSON Day page on Hanson.net to view details for concerts, painting classes, karaoke, HANSON Time Podcast Live and a whole lot more. HANSON Day weekend includes a wide variety of ticketed and free events, so it’s a good idea to plan ahead before tickets go on-sale Thursday, February 8th.
Not traveling to Tulsa this year? With both Online and In-person events all weekend, there is something for everyone. Streaming concerts, online scavenger hunts, be sure to check the schedule and join in on the festivities with thousands of members as HANSON share new music, stories, art, and a whole lot more during HANSON Day 2024.