Taylor Hanson
Artist
Hanson

Over their first 28 years as the band HANSON, brothers Taylor, Isaac and Zac Hanson have made a significant mark in music. Starting in 1992, they spent their first five years building a fanbase as an independent band in Tulsa, OK. They saw a meteoric rise with the 1997 international smash single “MMMBop” from their debut album Middle Of Nowhere followed by consecutive top 40 singles. Over their second decade, the band charted their own course, running an independent label while maintaining a coveted connection with their global fanbase. In 2007, they launched a grassroots campaign to support poverty and HIV/AIDS relief in Africa (TakeTheWalk.net).

The Evolving Landscape of Record Labels for Artists at Austin Convention Center Room 17AB

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SLOT

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. 

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’

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)

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