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Take The Walk South Africa
To date, six hostings of Take The Walk have been held in South Africa.
In 2009, Genevieve Wilton came back to her country of birth to host five walks in five cities, each representing one of the five causes that Take The Walk supports.
On March 15 last year, the campaign returned to South Africa, being hosted on the University of Cape Town's middle campus. The walk, which was covered for articles in the community newspaper as well as the Varsity paper, attracted 32 walkers, and was covered by the university's film, radio and newspaper medias.
We are in the process of planning a 13 walk Take The Walk series around the country for 2017 and 2018. The walk series starts on the tenth anniversary of the first walk, and will be hosted in Rondebosch. The other host cities are one in each province except Limpopo. In the interim, however, Melanie will be hosting a walk this year on World Water Day, 22 March, in Johannesburg. Specific venue and time will follow.
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
Future Plans
And ahead for 2015 – a tour, recording of a new album (actually their announcement just says “New Album” but we presume it has to be recorded first), Hanson Day and Hop Jam, and preparations for Back To The Island 2016.
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
Fools Banquet / New Members EP
Hanson busied themselves with deconstruction, reconstruction and painting of the 3CG studios before heading off to Fool’s Banquet, which is a song-writing retreat. Fool’s Banquet has generated songs like Watch Over Me, Go, and many member kit songs.
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
BTTI 2015
2015 started with the Back To The Island event, which moved from Jamaica to Cancun, Mexico this year. The venue was the Golden Parnassus Resort and Spa, and the event dates were 7-11 January, 2015. The five day event comprised three full band shows (including a Christmas show set), solo sets by each brother and special guests David Ryan Harris and Nick Santino, and the individual activities hosted by each brother: Mixology (drink making) with Isaac, Mexican pottery painting with Zac, and the after party deejayed by Taylor.
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
ICON BOOK
The long-awaited release of the ICON book in October 2014 came with three extra songs which were initially recorded for Anthem. The songs are Nothing On Me, All I Ever Needed and Get So Low, meaning that Pleasure With the Pain is only featured at current on the Condor Sessions album. The Condor sessions saw the recording of rough drafts of the songs on Anthem. ICON is available for purchase here
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
Super Digital Pants.
An addition for Super Digital Pants, the follow-up to Digital Pants, was released. The full Super Digital Pants album will be available for download purchase in May for HNET members only! Currently one can purchase individual songs, of which 6 are currently available. exclusive to HNET only!
09 FEB 2015 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
HNET Revamp.
In very late September of 2014, the new hanson.net website was launched. Although initially scheduled for July, the site finally went public… One of the most captivating features of the new site are the pins, which are like (quote Zac) X-Box achievement points. Pins are awarded for viewing forum posts, posting in forums, viewing multimedia on HNET, sending Private Messages, etc.
09 Feb 2014 l HANSON SOUTH AFRICA
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