Slim Hanson & The Poor Choices at The Ruin
August 24 | Doors at 6 | Music at 8
$15 per person
Tickets Here
Bring your lawn chair!
Kansas City country and western band Slim Hanson & The Poor Choices perform classic and original honky-tonk tunes at the Ruin!
The Ruin becomes a dance floor for a boot stompin’ good time!
The five-man group formed from a shared love of classic country music. That surely shows in the
Poor Choices, featuring Beau Bledsoe on electric guitar and vocals, John Currey on drums, Slim Hanson on guitar and vocals, Jeff Freling on electric bass, and Marco Pascalini on the steel pedal guitar.
Dressed in cowboy boots and suits,
Slim Hanson & The Poor Choices share songs of love, loss and life. The group has a longstanding gig at
The Ship in Kansas City and regularly collaborates with other musicians to infuse different sounds into their work. One such example is their recent partnership with
Los Texmaniacs and Mireya Ramos, Latin Grammy Award winner and past Volland exhibitor, for a program that shares the history of music along the United States-Mexican border.
Local chef Adam Waechter is serving pulled pork, potato salad, and cowboy beans!
$14 | cash is preferred, but check or credit card work too –
MHK Caravan Co. will be serving beverages and
Flint Hills Pints is bringing homemade ice cream!
Please bring a lawn chair for the concert, and
join us on August 24th for a fun summer night of classic country!
Tickets here
Inside the gallery, Hong Chun Zhang’s Hair of the Dragon exhibit will be up for viewing, along with her 90ft Prairie Dragon installation on our grounds.

