We’re proud to announce another
contest! Hosted by Twilighters Anonymous,

And before I forget, we have a special “gift” for everyone who completes their registration by subscribing to our MHB VIP List after entering the contest–a FREE RINGTONE!

Below are the prizes:First Prize:
One (1) first prize winner will receive:

• A personalized Phone Greeting from
  Mitch
• A copy of the Limited Edition Endless Day CD
• A personally signed poster of
  Mitch Hansen and Brent Cook
• And a personally designed “one of a kind” T-Shirt from the band exclusively for the winner!

Second Prize:
One (1) second prize winner will receive:

• A signed poster and limited edition Endless Day CD

Third Prize:
One (1) third prize winner will receive:

• An Endless Day CD

Contest Instructions:

• Winning is easy! In 200 words or less, write an essay telling us which Mitch Hansen Band song is your favorite and and why the song should be on the
  New Moon soundtrack!
• To enter, follow these steps:
  1. Click on the ENTER
  CONTEST link below or CLICK HERE2. Fill out the form completely with your contact information and make sure to include your essay submission.
  • FULL NAME
  • EMAIL
  • LOCATION (CITY, STATE)
  • ESSAY

  3. Hit SUBMIT ESSAY

  4. Then click on the SIGN UP FOR

  MITCH HANSEN’S NEWSLETTER

  Rules:Deadline: All entries must be submitted by Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 12pm PST.

We know you are a creative bunch so we can’t wait to receive the submissions and see what you all come up with.

Also, be sure to check out Mitch Hansen Band at Forks Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium! Join us at the real Forks High School June 25-28, 2009. Be sure to stay tuned to TwilightersAnonymous.com as TA will be broadcasting their live performance! (We will be posting more information about the live event here as well!)

For more information about the Twilight Symposium, visit http://www.litfanevents.org/summerinforks/

In the meantime, make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed (the orange button in the upper right corner of this page) to keep up on events, fun stuff, new music and see what else the band is up to.

GOOD LUCK!

ENTER CONTEST

PS. you MUST enter this contest on the TA site to be eligible for these prizes–and we have a special ringtone for you for FREE just for “playing” with us!

PPS. Make sure to share this opportunity with your friends!

Be the only one to have a personalized phone message from Mitch AND a one- of- a –kind T-shirt made just for you.

50 Word Contest

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By You and a World Without You, songs from the Endless Day CD are being pitched for the movie soundtrack for New Moon. Winning is easy. In 50 words or less, tell us which song is your favorite and/or why both songs or one of these songs should be on the New Moon soundtrack! Contest ends on June 30th. Must be over 13 to enter.

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Top Prize: Personalized Phone Greeting from Mitch

Copy of the Limited Edition CD

Personally signed Poster of Mitch and Brent

And a Personally designed “one of a kind” T-Shirt just for you from the Band

Value: Priceless

Second: A signed poster and limited edition CD – value $24.95

Third: An Endless Day CD – value $16.95

What you need to do:

1. SUBSCRIBE to this blog–all contestants MUST be subscribed to the RSS feed to be considered eligible to win. You do this by clicking on the ORANGE icon in the upper right corner of this page. OR you can subscribe via email in the bottom of the right column on this page.

2. POST YOUR RESPONSE: Simply include, in 50 words or less, which song is your favorite and why it should be included in the New Moon Soundtrack

3. SHARE: make sure to Share This blog post with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or whichever social networking site you have the most friends!

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Check out the Mitch’s video here, then be sure to watch The Mitch Hansen Band on Wednesday, May 27th at 9p EST

And visit www.TheMitchHansenBand.com to hear all the music and see what the band is doing.

Here’s a copy of the post from Twilighters Anonymous. Wednesday evening, they will interview me AND we will be announcing some exciting news!

We have super exciting news to bring you TA’ers! The Twilight-inspired group, Mitch Hansen Band, will be joining us on May 27th for an exclusive video chat interview! Not only are they going to grant us a live video chat interview, but they will also be performing a few lives songs for us!

You may know the Mitch Hansen Band from their super-popular song “Jacob Black” on YouTube. If you haven’t heard the song click here.Mitch Hansen and Brent Cook make up the Mitch Hansen Band.

Mitch has been writing songs since the age of 12. He explains how he began writing Twilight related music:

“My day job put me in the path of an unknown book around August of 2007. That book was Twilight. I had never heard of it or anything about, so I turned it over and checked out the back. “Vampires!” I thought, “Cool!” I decided to give it a try and I was hooked instantly. I read all three books in about a week, which is a lot of reading for someone who doesn’t read a ton.

After finishing Eclipse I was playing guitar and messing around with a little finger-picking riff I wrote. My wife walked by and said, “Hey, that sounds cool. Does it have any words yet?” I told her, “No,” and she suggested that I write some lyrics about Bella and Edward. The books were very fresh in my mind and I thought that was a pretty sweet idea! That’s how the song Twilight Hour was born.

I was interested to see how the public would react to such a crazy idea, so I created a MySpace music page for fun and posted the song. It was very well-received, so I figured another song was in order. The reactions continued to be positive, so I just kept on writing Twilight songs. After a while I it became apparent that I needed to make these songs available to everyone. I went to work in my studio (a walk-in closet) and after nearly a month of work, the CD was done and Twilight Hour the album was released on December 21, 2007. By January it was available on iTunes and to my complete shock, people started buying it!”

Mitch on playing the songs live:

“I needed another guitar player to recreate the sounds from the CD. The search began, and luckily I didn’t have to look too far to find the right man for the job.

A coworker of mine told me that her son played guitar and that he was very good. “Riiiiiiiight,” I thought. I’ve heard that from plenty of doting mothers before. I decided to see if he was the real deal or not, though. To my amazement, he wasn’t just good, he was awesome, and he was a nice guy, too! So, not long after that Brent and I made our stage debut with the help of our friend, Taylor, on the bass guitar. Though we still weren’t an official “band” yet, we continued to play small clubs and acoustic-style shows for a while. Brent became an official member of the Mitch Hansen Band in May of 2008 and we just kept on doing our thing for the next few months.”

Endless Day was released in December 2008 - a collection of 10 songs from Twilight Hour fully re-recorded and remastered in a recording studio.

Read more about the Mitch Hansen Band here.

Listen to their music on MHB’s MySpace Page.

The Mitch Hansen Band will be at Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium June 25-28th where they will again be performing LIVE just for us! (More info on Summer School in Forks.)

Make sure to tune into the chat because we will be releasing details on a Mitch Hansen Band-sponsored, TA Exclusive Contest that will run next month! They are contributing some HUGE prize packages to the TA winners, and during the interview, the Mitch Hansen Band will reveal the great prizes.

Please sign up/register for UStream account before the event (it’s free to sign up!) You will need your user name and password to participate in the live interview/chat.

Interview will happen at: May 27, 2009 @ 6 p.m. Pacific (9 p.m. Eastern)

Until then, enjoy a short video message from Mitch:

Mitch Hansen Band Teaser for Chat & Performance from TWILIGHTERSANONYMOUS.COM on Vimeo

http://twilightersanonymous.com/video/mitch-hansen-band-live-chat.html