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Take That Wonderland tour setlist: What songs will they sing in Newcastle?

Take That kicked off their Wonderland tour in Birmingham and will head to Newcastle for two shows at Metro Radio Arena

• 10:33, 6 MAY 2017
• Updated 13:03, 6 MAY 2017

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So the wait is finally over... Take That have kicked off their Wonderland tour meaning now there are just a few sleeps until Gary Barlow , Mark Owen and Howard Donald arrive in Newcastle for two shows at the Metro Radio Arena.

The trio kicked off their nationwide jaunt at Birmingham’s Genting Arena in front of a capacity crowd and with Gary throwing things back to the early 90s by sporting a new blonde hair do.

There had been plenty of speculation about what songs the lads would sing on the tour. Given that it’s named after new album Wonderland, the general consensus was that there’d be plenty of new album tracks given an airing.

But with so many classic hits in their locker, hopes were high that some old fan favourites would be given a share of the spotlight.

Well *SPOILER ALERT* as here is the setlist from Birmingham:

Greatest Day

Get Ready For It

Underground Machine

Relight My Fire

Beautiful World

How Deep is Your Love

Back For Good

It’s All For You

Never Forget

Rule the World

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Ticketmaster / 3 November 2016

Take That announce their Wonderland Live tour

Take that fans get ready… because gary, mark and howard are set to hit the road in may 2017 with their wonderland live tour. and this is going to be one unmissable live experience.

The tour will follow the March 2017 release of the band’s brand new album, Wonderland . Take That are performing 22 dates across the UK and Ireland – and for the first time ever, their main stage will be in the centre of the arena floor. This means fans (like us!) will get a truly unique experience in the round.

Take That are one of the UK’s most successful acts with a career spanning three decades. They’ve achieved seven UK No.1 albums and 15 UK No.1 singles, while internationally they’ve scored an incredible 35 No.1 albums and 54 No.1 hits. Their last album, 2014’s III , went straight to No.1 upon its release with the first single, These Days , also hitting the top spot.

Take That are renowned for putting on incredible shows and this upcoming tour will also include special guests All Saints.

They’ve also now confirmed a second Norwich show for Thursday 15 June 2017, which has been added due to phenomenal demand! It’s on sale this Friday 4 November at 09:30.

Full details of Take That’s Wonderland Live 2017 tour are below:

What are the dates?

Mon 8, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

Tues 9, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

Thurs 11, The SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Fri 12, The SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Thurs 18, Manchester Arena

Fri 19, Manchester Arena

Sat 20, Manchester Arena

Fri 26,  Manchester Arena

Mon 22, Echo Arena, Liverpool

Tues 23, Echo Arena, Liverpool

Mon 29, Sheffield Arena

Tues 30, Sheffield Arena

Thurs 01, Genting Arena, Birmingham

Fri 02, Genting Arena, Birmingham

Sat 03, Genting Arena, Birmingham

Tues 06, The O2, London

Wed 07, The O2, London

Fri 09, The O2, London

Sat 10, The O2, London

Wed 14, Liberty Stadium, Swansea

Thurs 15, Carrow Road Stadium, Norwich

Fri 16, Carrow Road Stadium, Norwich

When are tickets on sale?

Tickets went on general sale on 09:30 Friday 28 October 2016; the second Norwich on Thursday 15 June goes on sale Friday at 09:30.

How much are tickets?

The ticket prices will be from £55-£95 for seats. £59 for standing tickets (at time of writing).

VIP tickets have been confirmed. At time of writing, we understand these to include (in addition to your ticket):

Exclusive VIP Take That Wonderland Tour gift Signed VIP tour program Exclusive VIP tote bag Exclusive Wonderland VIP Tour laminate + lanyard

Hospitality packages will be available.

With such comprehensive VIP tickets available, we will not have any Platinum tickets.

Prices are subject to change.

*All prices exclude a per transaction delivery fee, which will be added to the total amount due. Tickets will be limited to 6 per person.

The stage set up is in-the-round, illustrated below 🙂

How do I improve my chances of bagging tickets?

We’re expecting Friday morning to be exceptionally busy for this tour. So, here are some tips on how to best prepare and increase your chances of securing tickets. Notepads at the ready!

• Open your account and log in now

Get the details out of the way before tickets go on sale by logging in and checking your Ticketmaster account ahead of time. We recommend checking passwords, delivery address and billing information now, to reduce any stress when processing your order later on. Head to  Ticketmaster.co.uk  and log in to your account to get started. If you do this earlier enough and add Take That as a favourite artist, you’ll hear first about key info if/when it is released before On Sale day (in this case 28 October).

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Stick to one window when you’re being pushed through the virtual queue and always resist the urge to refresh. Hitting the refresh button means you’ll lose your place in the queue and, as frustrating as it can get, patience is the only way to win this game.

Ticketmaster is equipped with sophisticated systems that are designed to manage and process ticket purchases as quickly as possible. The queuing system that appears on your screen is actually doing something and will place you at the front of the line as soon as possible.

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Keep up-to-date with news at  Twitter.com/TicketmasterUK  . If anything changes with Take That tickets – anything at all, even new dates – our social followers will be the first to know about it!

We send real time updates as the general sales happen, including any technical difficulties that might occur, and alerts when new tickets and shows come available. When we have popular tours come on sale, we try our very best behind the scenes to secure as many tickets for you as possible and here’s where you’ll know if we’ve been successful.

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New tickets for Take That’s Wonderland Live tour go on sale at 09:30 on Friday 4 November. Get yours at  Ticketmaster.co.uk .

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Take That Wonderland Tour at O2 Arena: How to still get tickets, what's the setlist and who's the support act

The band is performing six shows at the O2 Arena this June and here's everything you need to know if you're heading to see the Wonderland Tour

• 11:16, 18 MAY 2017
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Take That are heading to London with their Wonderland Tour this June.

The current lineup, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, are playing a total of six shows at the O2 Arena kicking off on June 6-7 and then June 9-12.

They recently performed in Birmingham where the show was described as "bonkers but beautiful" by Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News said they've "never sounded better".

The group is one of the most successful British bands of all time selling more than 45 million records worldwide.

However since 2005 when the group reunited they have gone on to become one of the biggest touring artists.

Their hugely successful tours including 'The Circus Live' and 'Progress Live', the latter with Robbie Williams, broke ticket records and received rave review from fans and critics alike.

In 2015 the current trio played 10 dates at the O2 Arena for one of their most visually spectacular shows to date.

If previous concerts are anything to go by their 'Wonderland Tour' is not one to be missed when it comes to London in June.

Are tickets still available?

Yes, the majority of shows at the O2 are sold out but the best availability is Monday June 12.

A number of options are available including standard seated and standing as well as VIP packages.

You can purchase them from Ticketmaster here .

Prices start from £62.25 and go up to £201.70 for some packages.

Meanwhile sites like Get Me In and Viagogo are selling standard tickets at hiked prices.

Who's the support act?

For the 'Wonderland Live Tour' the group will be joined by fellow 90s popstars All Saints.

The girl group recently reunited for a UK tour performing their biggest hits and Take That fans can expect a great warm-up at the O2 Arena shows when they play the likes of 'Pure Shores' and 'Never Ever'.

What will the setlist be?

According to setlist.fm Take That have been performing the following setlist during their recent UK shows including Newcastle and Birmingham.

Fans can expect to hear these songs at the O2 Arena but there may be a few surprises.

Greatest Day

Get Ready for It

Underground Machine

Relight My Fire

Beautiful World

How Deep Is Your Love? ( Bee Gees cover)

Back for Good

It's All for You

Rule the World

What merchandise is on sale?

This tour features everything from t-shirts, mugs, posters, pyjamas and caps all featuring the classic Take That logo. Plus fans can get their hands on Gary, Mark and Howard masks for £10.

Other useful information:

Cash machines: There are ATMs near The O2 main entrance. When you come in, head to the left. They’re next to merchandise.

WiFi: The O2 has hotspots for both O2 WiFi and The Cloud

The O2 is a no smoking venue. The smoking area is just outside The O2’s main entrance.

Lost property on site (will hold items for up to seven days). Open every day from 12pm or call 0208 4632030.

First aid on site

Free tap water available from the bars inside the arena

No bottle tops allowed on drinks. These will be removed at security when you walk in

Fast food and drink stalls are located inside the arena

No cloakrooms on site

Cinema screening

For those not lucky enough to get tickets to the show, it will be broadcast live at nearly 500 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Friday June 9 at 8pm.

It's said cinema audiences will be able to experience the full concert from “the best seat in the house”.

You can find out your closest cinema where it's showing and get tickets here.

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The boys kicked off their Wonderland tour at the Genting Arena in Birmingham

• 12:00, 1 JUN 2017

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Take That’s latest tour has kicked off in Birmingham with a bonkers, beautiful and, at times, brilliant show.

It’s called Wonderland, which seems to be an excuse to throw anything they fancy into a weird melting pot of ideas.

Previous tours have had much clearer themes. Circus had, well, a circus, while Progress had a giant robot.

But what’s Wonderland then? Whatever they feel like.

It’s a sitar player on a magic carpet, it’s men dressed like Poldark on stilts, it’s a flying swan, it’s a Roman gladiator with a very funky helmet.

Take That have pushed the boat out on staging spectacular shows in the past and sometimes I felt this didn’t really measure up to a mechanical elephant, a flying machine and a 70ft man.

I did like the round stage in the centre of the Genting Arena though, which felt like they were closer to us.

A general mystical feel surrounds everything, with a narrator talking about a traveller and a great master.

Frankly, we don’t really care about that – we’ve come for the music.

And that is mostly wonderful, partly thanks to their musical director, talented Brummie Mike Stevens who was also behind ELO’s tour and plays the saxophone, flute and guitar.

Highlights included a joyful Shine, Hope from the new album, and all of them, Gary included, doing the original dance moves to Pray.

There were quite a few less well-known songs – six from the new album and even one track, Satisfied, from their debut 1992 album Take That and Party, which Gary admitted they hadn’t played for years. This is a good show for the diehard fan who knows all their tracks well.

We could have perhaps done without them leaving the stage so often, for no fewer than SEVEN costume changes.

It would seem that fringing, embroidery, sparkly sequins and zebra jackets are in. Oh, and Gary has a new bleached blond and quiffed hairdo.

They didn’t talk much, a bit more banter would have been nice.

Mark said: “It’s amazing, being in the middle of you all.”

And Gary said: “We can’t believe after all these years that you guys are here to see us. Thank you so much.”

If you keep up this form, I’m sure we’ll be around for quite a few years to come.

Take That are back on Saturday night at the Genting Arena before heading off round the rest of the UK, then returning to the Genting for four nights from June 1.

Greatest Day

Get Ready For It

Underground Machine

Relight My Fire

Beautiful World

How Deep Is Your Love

Back For Good

It’s All For You

Never Forget

Rule The World

*Take That's gig at London's 02 will be broadcast live in cinemas across the country on June 9. To find out where it will be screened near you, take a look at the Live Cinema website here.

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Take That at the Etihad Stadium: setlist, stage times, support act for the Wonderland Tour 2017

Everything you need to know as the Manchester manband return home for the final date of their UK tour

• 20:19, 17 JUN 2017
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Manchester manband Take That are heading back to their home city to close their Wonderland tour this weekend.

With a career spanning 27 years under their belts, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen return to Manchester on Sunday for the last UK date of their 10th tour.

The now sold out concert at the Etihad Stadium combines the band’s three remaining Manchester Arena shows which were postponed following the bomb attack at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena on May 22.

Gary, Howard Donald and Mark played the first three of their Manchester concerts at the arena the week before the devastating attack in which 22 people lost their lives and more than 120 were injured.

They had been due to play again on Thursday May 25, Friday 26 and Saturday 27, but announced that these dates would be rescheduled to one gig at the Etihad, where the audience capacity is 60,000.

The Rule The World hitmakers dedicated their rescheduled Liverpool Echo Arena concert to those bereaved or injured in the arena bombing - and revealed that all profits from that show would be going to the We Love Manchester emergency fund.

Howard said on stage: “As you know I was born and raised in Manchester and I’ve never been so proud to be Mancunian. The spirit of Manchester, the spirit of the North-West, the UK and the world over, it’s absolutely incredible.”

The trio performed alongside Ariana Grande at her One Love Manchester benefit concert on June 4 at the Emirates Old Trafford stadium joining an all-star line-up that included Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Little Mix - and they were joined on stage briefly by their friend and former bandmate Robbie Williams.

What to expect from Wonderland

After a thrilling trip to the Circus and introducing us to a giant robot on the Progress tour, Take That have taken us to Wonderland on their latest tour, which kicked off last month in Birmingham.

Where their previous 2015 III tour gave us flying machines and tea parties, Wonderland tour picks up the fun with a mysterious flying carpet.

It is more stripped back than previous tours, but they still bring out the dancers and acrobats (look out for a giant floating swan) and as well as showcasing all their biggest hits they joyously dig deep into the unexpected album track archives, as demonstrated on a souped-up and rhythmic Beautiful World from 2006 and Satisfied from their 1992 debut album Take That and Party.

Who is the support act?

Nineties girlband All Saints. Get ready to wave your arms in the air to hits including Pure Shores, Never Ever and an irresistible mash-up of Lady Marmalade and Push It.

Stage Times

This has yet to be confirmed but at previous shows All Saints were on at 7.25pm to 8pm and Take That came on stage at 8.25pm. The show ended at 10.30pm and doors opened at 6pm.

Greatest Day

Get Ready For It

Underground Machine

Relight My Fire

Beautiful World

How Deep is Your Love

Back For Good

It’s All For You

Never Forget

Rule the World

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Gary Barlow bleaches hair in nod to Take That heyday as band kick off their Wonderland Tour

• From Dan Wootton's Bizarre column
• Published : 22:32, 5 May 2017
• Updated : 4:51, 7 May 2017

GARY BARLOW is clearly embracing his hair in 2017.

Three months after revealing he washed his locks for the first time in 14 years, he has now gone peroxide blond, sparking calls from his own wife, Dawn, that he’s having a mid-life crisis.

Gary has claimed it’s his unique way of celebrating 25 years of Take That by reverting back to his original pop style.

But speaking backstage in Birmingham ahead of TAKE THAT ’s amazing new Wonderland Tour , which kicked off last night, he also told me of Dawn’s concerns.

He said: “I did say to her, ‘Do you really like my hair?’ and she said, ‘It’s not the hair I’ve got the problem with, it’s your mid-life crisis’, and I was like, ‘Thanks very much’.”

Gary insists his new look was further prompted by the fact the band was “due for an image change”.

He added: “Vinyl’s back and I thought, ‘You know what? I’m taking it back to ’92.’ It was ’92 since I was blond and I thought, ‘It’s Wonderland. I can’t just walk on-stage with me old hairdo,’ so I’ve gone blond for this tour.”

The lads — Gary, HOWARD DONALD and MARK OWEN — will be performing the show 32 times over the next two months in the UK.

Can’t wait.

First night review

TAKE THAT have been Britain’s ­best live act for the past decade, with every tour breaking new ground. So how on earth can they continue to top their phenomenal previous shows?

Well, they’ve done it with Wonderland, creating a totally immersive experience – positioning the stage smack bang in the middle of the arena.

This “in the round” set-up – which I witnessed at Genting Arena in Birmingham – means Gary, Mark and Howard are always exposed, often going solo to perform to different parts of the crowd.

And there’s no ADELE -style wheeled boxes to get them to ­different parts of the arena – the lads just charge through the crowd.

The visuals are a feast for the eyes, with light shows, circus-style acrobatics from the dancers and outfits that make the lads look like psychedelic cowboys.

At different points there are stilt walkers, giant inflatable flowers and a carousel of dancers with the band dangling from the air.

During a ­soaring performance of The Flood, there is a water show where 1,000 litres of liquid pours from the ceiling, creating the Take That logo and the shapes of the lads.

It’s great to see the move to a trio has finally given Howard his chance to properly shine.

He takes ROBBIE ­WILLIAMS ’ lead vocals on Underground Machine and gives a tour de force ­performance that ends with him singing while being winched to the roof.

TT’s latest dance hits Cry and These Days are great moments – they feel like they are becoming staples.

The emotional It’s All For You from the Wonderland album is a highlight too, with Howard and Mark ­playing the piano as Gary takes centre stage.

And the emotional highlight is the double whammy of Back For Good into Patience, where Gary’s vocals are spine-tingling.

But perhaps the best thing is to ­witness just how much fun these three continue to have. On Pray they share a microphone and fool about with impish charm and banter.

Yet again, the Take That boys have ­produced the tour of the year.

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• Underground Machine
• Relight My Fire
• Medley: Beautiful World/Wait/Satisfied/Love Life/How Deep Is Your Love
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• It's All For You
• Never Forget
• Rule the World

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16 years after her first time playing in London, Taylor Swift sells out eight shows at Wembley Stadium for a tour that celebrates all of the music, memories, and moments between then and now.

All photography by Sofia Jain ( @sofiajain ).

The first time I saw Taylor Swift live, I was eleven years old. It was 2010, and the country popstar made her way to my home state of Massachusetts for the final night on her Fearless tour. A ’13’ on my hand, a new concert tee layered over the yellow Rolling Stone shirt I carefully picked out weeks prior, and face paint proudly denoting “I Speak Now , Red , 1989 , Reputation ), I make my way to the Eras Tour in London, where I now reside, with the same butterflies and anticipation of my elementary school self.

Every tour of Taylor’s has sprinkled magical memories into my life, but the Eras Tour is something else entirely. Making her way through 18 years of music, Taylor goes album by album — taking us back to childhood crushes, high school drama, first loves, quarantine fixations, and everything in between. For three and a half hours, my emotions take on a life of their own — and I let them go wherever they want.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Swift’s voice cascaded around Wembley Stadium, before a sparkly Lover ified Swift popped up on the largest stage I’ve ever seen to the loudest crowd I’ve ever heard. I think back to her 2010 documentary, Journey to Fearless , in which a young teenage Taylor jumps up and down backstage upon hearing the crowd chanting, exclaiming, “That’s my name they’re saying! That’s my name they’re saying!” She had no idea what was to come, though I’d like to say her fans always did.

The first time Swift performed in London, she was 17 and gracing a stage at King’s College. The second, she played Shepherd’s Bush Empire. “From there, you just continued to support me more and more,” she shared to the 88,446 people in the crowd. “The rooms got gradually bigger and bigger, and now you’ve done this. You’ve sold out three nights at Wembley in June and five more nights in August. That means we get to play Wembley Stadium eight times this summer because of you. It’s only because of you.”

“I always think about why it is that the Eras Tour is my favourite thing I’ve ever gotten to be a part of. Because I’ve been touring since I was 15. We’ve gotten to have a lot of fun memories, but this one just feels more special, more fun, more exciting than any tour I’ve ever done. And I think it’s because we get to take all the memories that we’ve made over the years, over the last, you know, 18 to 20 years that I’ve been playing shows, and we’ve put them all in one show. And plus, never in my life have I gotten to play for crowds as wonderfully generous as we’ve gotten to see here on the Eras Tour. And Wembley Stadium, night one, you are blowing our minds already.”

The show, which transitioned from the Lover set (which more than made up for the cancelled Loverfest I had tickets to before Covid-19) to Fearless to Red , went era by era. While I knew the Fearless section would bring me to tears, reminding me of fifth grade iMovie dances and my sixth grade alarm clock (the first few notes of the title track still make me think it’s time for school), it was the Red set that I keep coming back to. While everyone watches Swift dancing and skipping to “22,” my eyes go directly to the edge of the catwalk — where a young girl sits, plucked from the audience to receive Taylor’s signature hat. Much like watching a groom on the wedding day while the bride walks down the aisle, I see the girl, around the age I was at the Fearless tour, well up with excitement, shake with anticipation, and then become too stunned to speak as Taylor embraces her in a hug and places the hat on her head. I think about the new generation of girls growing up with Taylor’s music and influence and about how lucky I have been to do the same.

As Swift makes her way into the folklore/evermore segment of the show, I am reminded of a quarantine summer — of finding moments of joy and escapism through music and imagination. She talks of crafting the folklore cabin in her mind and of telling stories as a narrator versus her typical first person accounts. She sings the holy trinity (the teenage love affair — “Cardigan,” “Betty,” and “August”), a goosebump-inducing “Marjorie” with guests’ cell phone flashlights swaying in synchronicity with her grandmother’s backing vocals, and fan-favourite “champagne problems” — which sparked a several minute long standing ovation that may have gone on all night if Swift didn’t stop it herself.

During 1989 , I remember the first time Taylor released a song classified as pop. I think about her move to New York, her freshly cut bob, her early work with producer Jack Antonoff, and her nights connecting with fans on Tumblr. I remember her standing up for herself against the media’s dating speculation, veering into topics of feminism and equality she previously shied away from. I remember debates with classmates over how undervalued women’s lyrics are compared to their male counterparts – reduced to who songs are about instead of the craft and skillful storytelling.

With reputation , I think of the year she disappeared from the public eye — of the scrutiny and hate she got, and how that taught me that no matter how right you are, people are always going to believe what they want to believe. But, ultimately, that if you stay honest and kind, things have a way of coming back around.

The Tortured Poets Department set — the newest addition to the tour, added for the European leg — might be the most complex stage design of the show. Opening with black and white graphics featuring floating furniture and a deserted road, Swift appears in a custom Vivienne Westwood gown covered in song lyrics, a cross between a wedding dress and crumpled up piece of paper. From “But Daddy I Love Him” and “So High School,” she slides (literally) into “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” on a gliding podium swiftly moving her around the catwalk. A full bed frame moves onto the stage for “Fortnight,” a UFO appears on screen for “Down Bad,” and an entire marching band joins Swift for “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.” Besides belting the aforementioned song’s bridge, the highlight was certainly the closing number of the era — an old Hollywood, slightly meta performance of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” In front of a projected marquee of the “The Eras Tour”, a limp Swift gets dragged through the steps of preparing for a show. Her dancers strip her down to a matching set, struggle her arms into a shimmering jacket, put her heels on, and usher her forward despite her protests. When the music starts, she snaps into performance mode — just like the song describes.

The next segment — the acoustic section — is the only portion that isn’t dedicated to any singular album. Picking surprise songs for each show, Swift plays something different each night, whether tracks from her debut album or never-before-played TTPD songs. For London Night 1, she mashed up “Hits Different” and “Death By a Thousand Cuts” on the guitar — two of her favourite bridges, she explained halfway through, as she wanted to try to combine them into a “mega bridge” (she succeeded) — and “The Black Dog,” “Come Back… Be Here,” and “Maroon” on the piano. Even during a highly choreographed, organised production, she finds time to play around and try something new — and it’s one of her core fans’ favourite parts.

As Taylor starts Midnights , I can see the crowd counting the eras. It’s her last. I take a deep breath and forget everything going on in my life — the deadlines, the drama, the early mornings to come. The only thing I let myself focus on is the stadium. The dancers, the band, the set design, Taylor. The crowd, the twenty-something girl going through a heartbreak, the newly engaged couple who met through Swift, the teenage boy who came alone singing every word. The parents who made their kids’ dreams come true by scoring them tickets, the kids spinning around in sparkly dresses beside me. The people who grew up with Taylor, the people who watched them grow up, and the people who will never know a world without “(Taylor’s Version)”.

I think about the first time I saw Taylor live, how little I knew about the next decade and a half to come, and all the albums and eras and memories between then and now. To me, that’s what the Eras Tour felt like: pride and joy and bittersweet nostalgia for all the stages of my life, for all the lessons we’ve learned, and all the music that’s been by our side through it all. And, of course, all the memories to come.

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Join us for a family-friendly weekend in Wonderland to celebrate the end of the school year and summer’s kick-off! The Queen of Hearts and her Playing Cards, plus her court of Garden Explainers, guide you through hands-on crafts and activities, from potting up begonias to making a floral crown fit for royalty! Join the Queen for a meet-and-greet, and dive into lawn games and music, as well as scrumptious tea-to-go mini meals for purchase. Remember to pick up your Passport for Summer upon arrival to check off all your curious destinations at the Garden.

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Join our Teen Explainers for a variety of hands-on crafts and activities that engage young minds and inspire imagination! Pot up a plant, craft your own tea mix, and more.

“Off with their Heads” Red Begonias Nurture your green thumb and pot up your own hardy red begonia plant to watch grow this summer.

Magical Tea Blends Sample a taste of delightful herbal iced tea, then mix up your own fragrant tea blend using familiar and flavorful dried plant parts like thyme, chamomile, peppermint, hibiscus, catnip, and butterfly pea flower. Bring your mix home to host your own tea party!

Grow Your Own Mycelium Sculpture Learn all about mushroom life cycles, including parts you can’t see underground, like mycelium—the root-like structure that makes up most of the fungus. Then craft a mycelium egg sculpture to take home, inspired by artist Andre Kong’s Homegrown house made of mycelium bricks.

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Cap or Crown? Curious Crafts with Materials for the Arts 1–4 p.m. In this drop-in workshop, take your costume to a new level by creating a celebratory cap or flower crown with recycled materials from Materials for the Arts.

Off With Our Heads: Flower Crown Competition 2 p.m. The Playing Cards invite you to show off your best flower crowns and celebratory caps by leading you down the “runway.” Is your creation fit for a Queen? Winners will be chosen and given a token to take home!

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Over a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras tour , she has found ways to keep the show fresh and new for those who have been waiting since she opened in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2023 to see her. Since the tour began in the United States last year, Swift has released two rerecorded albums —  Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)  and  1989 (Taylor’s Version)  in addition to a brand-new double album,  The Tortured Poets Department. 

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Every show on the Eras Tour involves an acoustic set where Swift performs at least two songs custom to that night’s show. At first, she wouldn’t allow herself repeats unless she messed up the lyrics to a song, but now, she has done away with that rule and gotten more creative by combining songs in mashups and playing up to four in a segment. The first song or three take place on guitar, and then she shifts to piano for the second half before diving beneath the stage to resume the setlist – which has since contracted and expanded to include a  Tortured Poets Department  era and set .

Below you’ll find Taylor Swift’s surprise songs that she has played most recently in Europe as well as a record of all those she has played on the entire tour so far.

International Leg 2024

• February 6 — “Holy Ground” and “Dear Reader”
• February 7 — “Eyes Open” and “Electric Touch”
• February 8 — “Superman” and “The Outside”
• February 9 — “Come In With the Rain” and “You’re On Your Own Kid”
• February 16 in — “Red” and “You’re Losing Me”
• February 17 — Mashup of “Getaway Car”/”August”/”The Other Side of the Door” and “This Is Me Trying”
• February 18 — Mashup of “Come Back… Be Here”/”Daylight” and “Teardrops on My Guitar”February 23 in Sydney, Australia – “How You Get the Girl” and Mashup of “White Horse/Coney Island” with Sabrina Carpenter
• February 24 — “Should’ve Said No (Naur)” and Mashup of “New Year’s Day/Peace”
• February 25 — Mashup of “Is It Over Now/I Wish You Would” and Mashup of “Haunted/Exile”
• February 26 — Mashup of “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve/Ivy” and Mashup of “Forever & Always/Maroon”
• March 2  — Mashup of “long story short/The Story of Us” and Mashup of “Clean/evermore”
• March 3 — Mashup of “Mine/Starlight” and Mashup of “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever/Dress”
• March 4 — Mashup of “Foolish One/Tell Me Why” and Mashup of “This Love/Call It What You Want”
• March 7 — Mashup of “Death by a Thousand Cuts/Babe” and Mashup of “Fifteen/You’re On Your Own Kid”
• March 8 — Mashup of “Sparks Fly/gold rush” and “False God/Slut!”
• March 9 — Mashup of “Tim McGraw/Cowboy Like Me” and “Mirrorball/Epiphany”

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April 19 –  The Tortured Poets Department  release day

*Resuming her European tour in 2024 involved an additional set for the record-breaking   The Tortured Poets Department  complete with 7 staple songs. Most — “Fortnight (feat. Post Malone),” “Down Bad,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” from the first half and “So High School” from the second half. 

• May 9 — “Paris” and “loml”
• May 10 — Mashup of “Is It Over Now/Out of the Woods” and “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
• May 11 — “Hey Stephen” and “Maroon”
• May 12 — Mashup of “The Alchemy/Treacherous” and “Begin Again/Paris”
• May 17 — Mashup of “I Think He Knows/Gorgeous” and “Peter”
• May 18 — “Guilty as Sin” and Mashup of “Say Don’t Go/Welcome to New York/Clean”
• May 19 — Mashup of “Message in a Bottle/How You Get the Girl/New Romantics” and “How Did It End?”
• May 24 — Mashup of “Come Back…Be Here/The Way I Loved You/The Other Side of the Door” and Mashup of “Fresh Out the Slammer/High Infidelity”
• May 25 — Mashup of “Now That We Don’t Talk/The Tortured Poets Department” and Mashup of “You’re On Your Own Kid/Long Live”
• May 29 — Mashup of “Sparks Fly/I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” and Mashup of “I Look in People’s Windows/Snow on the Beach”
• May 30 – Mashup of “Our Song/Jump Then Fall” and “King of My Heart”
• June 2 – Mashup of “The Prophecy/Long Story Short” and Mashup of “Fifteen/You’re On Your Own Kid”
• June 3 – Mashup of “Glitch/Everything Has Changed” and “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”
• June 7 – Mashup of “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve/I Know Places” and Mashup of “‘Tis the Damn Season/Daylight”
• June 8 – Mashup of “The Bolter/Getaway Car” and Mashup of “All of the Girls You’ve Loved Before/Crazier”
• June 9 – Mashup of “It’s Nice to Have a Friend/Dorothea” and Mashup of “Haunted/Exile”
• June 13 – Mashup of “I Can See You/Mine” and Mashup of “Cornelia Street/Maroon”
• June 14 – “This Is What You Came For” and Mashup of “The Great War/You’re Losing Me”
• June 15 – “Carolina/No Body No Crime” and “The Manuscript/Red”
• June 18 – “I Forgot That You Existed/This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “I Hate It Here/The Lakes”
• June 21 – Mashup of “Hits Different/Death By a Thousand Cuts” and “The Black Dog/Come Back…Be Here/Maroon”

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• March 17 — Mirrorball” and “Tim McGraw”
• March 18— “State of Grace” and “This Is Me Trying”
• March 24 — “Our Song” and “Snow on the Beach” 
• March 25 — “Cowboy Like Me” with Marcus Mumford and “White Horse”
• March 31 — “Sad Beautiful Tragic” and “Ours”
• April 1 — “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and “Clean”
• April 2 — “Jump Then Fall” and “The Lucky One”
• April 13 — “Speak Now” and “Treacherous”
• April 14 — “The Great War” with Aaron Dessner and “You’re on Your Own, Kid”
• April 15— “Mad Woman” with Aaron Dessner and “Mean”
• April 21 — “Wonderland” and “You’re Not Sorry”
• April 22— “A Place in This World” and “Today Was a Fairytale” 
• April 23 — “Begin Again” and “Cold as You”
• April 28 — “The Other Side of the Door” and “Coney Island”
• April 29 — “High Infidelity” and “Gorgeous”
• April 30— “I Bet You Think About Me” and “How You Get the Girl”
• May 5 in — “Sparks Fly” +  Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Album Announcement  and “Teardrops on My Guitar”
• May 6 — “Out of the Woods” and “Fifteen”
• May 7— “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” with Aaron Dessner and “Mine”
• May 12 — “Gold Rush” and “Come Back…Be Here”
• May 13 — “Forever & Always” and “This Love”
• May 14 — “Hey Stephen” and “The Best Day”
• May 19  — “Should’ve Said No” and “Better Man” 
• May 20 — “Question…?” and “Invisible” 
• May 21 — “I Think He Knows” and “Red”
• May 26 — “Getaway Car” with Jack Antonoff and “Maroon” 
• May 27 — “Holy Ground” and “False God”
• May 28 — “Welcome to New York” and “Clean”
• June 2 in “I Wish You Would” and “The Lakes”
• June 3 in — “You All Over Me” with Maren Morris and “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
• June 4 Chicago, Ill. — “Hits Different” and “The Moment I Knew”
• June 9 — “Haunted” and “I Almost Do”
• June 10 — “All You Had to Do Was Stay” and “Breathe”
• June 16 — “Mr. Perfectly Fine” and “The Last Time”
• June 17 — “Seven” with Aaron Dessner and “The Story of Us”
• June 23 — “Paper Rings” and “If This Was a Movie”
• June 24 — “Dear John” and “Daylight”
• June 30 — “I’m Only Me When I’m With You” and “Evermore”
• July 1— “Ivy” with Aaron Dessner, “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” with Gracie Abrams and “Call It What You Want”
• July 7 — “Never Grow Up” and “When Emma Falls in Love”
• July 8  — “Last Kiss” and “Dorothea”
• July 14 — “Picture to Burn” and “Timeless”
• July 15 — “Starlight” and “Back to December”
• July 22 in — “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “Everything Has Changed”
• July 23 — “Message in a Bottle” and “Tied Together With a Smile”
• July 28 — “Right Where You Left Me” and “Castles Crumbling”
• July 29 — “Stay Stay Stay” and “All of the Girls You Loved Before”
• August 3 – “I Can See You” and “Maroon”
• August 4 — “Our Song” and “You Are in Love”
• August 5 — “Death By a Thousand Cuts” and “You’re On Your Own Kid”
• August 7 —“Exile” and “Dress”
• August 8 —“I Know Places” and “King of My Heart”
• August 9 — “New Romantics”  + “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”Album Announcement  and “New Year’s Day”

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International Leg 2023

• August 24 — “I Forgot That You Existed” and “Sweet Nothing”
• August 25 — “Tell Me Why” and “Snow on the Beach”
• August 26 — “Cornelia Street” and “You’re on Your Own, Kid”
• August 27 —“Afterglow” and “Maroon”
• November 9 —“The Very First Night” and “Labyrinth”
• November 10 — Cancelled Due to Rain
• November 11 — “End Game” and Mash-Up of “Out of the Woods” & “Is It Over Now?”
• November 12 — “Better Than Revenge” and “Slut!”
• November 17 — “Stay Beautiful” and “Suburban Legends”
• November 19 — “Dancing. With Our Hands Tied” and “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”
• November 20 — “Me!” and “So It Goes”
• Nov. 24 — “Now That We Don’t Talk” and “Innocent”
• Nov. 25— “Safe and Sound” and “Untouchable” 
• Nov. 25 — “Say Don’t Go” and “It’s Time to Go”

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Songs That Haven’t Been Played Yet:

From Taylor Swift (her debut album):

• “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)”
• “A Perfectly Good Heart”

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

• “Change”
• “Superstar”
• “We Were Happy”
• “That’s When (feat. Keith Urban)”
• “Don’t You”
• “Bye Bye Baby”

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

• “Foolish One”

Red (Taylor’s Version)

• “Girl at Home”
• “Forever Winter”
• “Run (feat. Ed Sheeran)”

1989 (Taylor’s Version)   –  All songs have been played at least once [except for “Sweeter Than Fiction (Taylor’s Version)]

Reputation  – One of two rerecorded albums awaiting release.

• “I Did Something Bad”
• “London Boy”
• “Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. The Chicks)”
• “It’s Nice to Have a Friend”
• “Epiphany”
• “Hoax”
• “Happiness”
• “Long Story Short”
• “Closure”

The Tortured Poets Department

• “So Long London”
• “Florida!!!”
• “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”
• “Clara Bow”
• “The Black Dog”
• “imgonnagetyouback”
• The Albatross
• “I Hate It Here”
• “thanK you aIMee”
• “The Prophecy”
• “Cassandra”
• “Peter”
• “Robin”

Grab-bag (songs not attached to specific albums):

• “I Heart ?”
• “Ronan”
• “Only the Young”
• “Renegade”
• “The Alcott”
• “Gasoline”
• “Beautiful Eyes”
• “Beautiful Ghosts”
• “Sweeter Than Fiction”

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Entertainment | see a play, take a hike — it’s all the same with arts in the open.

Each summer and fall, the Littleton-based theater group encourages thespians, hikers, and anyone looking to fulfill their daily Vitamin D exposure to join in on a trailside adventure merging performing arts with the great outdoors.

This summer, Arts in the Open is presenting an adaptation of Lewis Carrol’s classic, Alice in Wonderland.

The play unfolds over the course of an approximately two-mile-long loop hike on the trails of Chautauqua Park. During the hike, participants can expect to stop around five times to watch five different scenes unfold in sequence. By the end of the two miles, audiences will be satisfyingly entertained and 4,000 steps closer to their daily walking goals.

Hikers can opt to bring a picnic blanket, stand, or, for a truly luxurious experience, bring a portable camp chair.

Mary Schaugh, Arts in the Open board member and the show’s director, says the theater hikes perfectly epitomize Boulder life.

“Somebody once said to me, ‘This the most Boulder thing you could do.’ And I completely agree — it’s theater, it’s hiking, and it’s quintessential Boulder. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors will love this — even if they don’t necessarily enjoy theater. And vice versa — anyone who isn’t a big hiker will still have fun on our theater hike, because you’re so entertained, that you barely realize you’re hiking,” said Schaugh.

While the hike is extremely doable and pleasant for onlookers, the production’s cast and creative members face a bit more of a challenge when it comes to pulling off a seamless theater hike.

“After each scene, members of the cast have to run ahead of the audience to make it to the next set location in plenty of time to be ready for the next scene. Actors are running in full makeup, wigs, long skirts and heavy costumes, all under the full Colorado sun in the summer. And since the cast is so small, most cast members are playing multiple roles, which means there must be a quick costume change before the crowd gets there,” said Schaugh.

To help navigate the rocky terrain while wearing cumbersome costumes, actors oftentimes opt to wear their hiking boots.

As for members of the creative team, before each play goes into production, the play’s director must go out and scout scene locations on the trail that best fits the vibe and mood of the current play — sometimes hiking the same trail over and over to get the locations just right.

“One year, we did a show that was set in post-apocalyptic times, so I had to find places that were not that pretty and rather bleak,” Schaugh said. “This year, luckily, is set in wonderland, so all of the set locations are beautiful.”

Most theater hikes go off without a hitch, says Schaugh, but in some cases, Mother Nature can intervene.

“Some years, we’ve had it start raining out of the blue. Other times, we have had dogs hiking off-leash run up on a scene and start barking madly. Our actors are taught to have a level of flexibility so that when things inevitably happen, they can roll with the punches and keep things moving along,” Schaugh said.

Highlights of this summer’s Alice in Wonderland production include a lively script adaptation, a hair-raising swordfight, some innovative costume designs, and one big twist that we don’t want to spoil — you’ll just have to lace up your hiking boots in order to find out.

Be sure to catch the outdoor magic that is Arts in the Open’s production of Alice in Wonderland this summer at Chautauqua Park. Tickets cost $21 and can be purchased online at cca-internet.choicecrm.net/ChoiceCRM.NET/templates/CCA/index.php?prod=EAWTHALL#/events .

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By David A. Fahrenthold and Alexandra Berzon

• June 23, 2024 Updated 3:13 p.m. ET

In 2021, retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Donald J. Trump’s first national security adviser, became chairman of a 75-year-old nonprofit organization — the kind of small charity where chairmen typically work for free.

But Mr. Flynn received a salary of $40,000 , for working two hours per week.

The next year, he got a raise: $ 60,000 , for two hours.

Mr. Flynn’s charity also paid one of his brothers, two of his sisters, his niece and his sister-in-law. By the end of its second year, his nonprofit group, America’s Future Inc., was running in the red , burning through reserves — and still paying $518,000, or 29 percent of its budget, to Flynns.

Since leaving the Trump administration under an ethical cloud, Michael Flynn has converted his Trump-world celebrity into a lucrative and sprawling family business. He and his relatives have marketed the retired general as a martyr, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a legal-defense fund and then pocketing leftover money. Through a network of nonprofit and for-profit ventures, they have sold far-right conspiracy theories, ranging from lies about the 2020 election to warnings, embraced by followers of QAnon, about cabals of pedophiles and child traffickers.

“This is one that goes up to the highest levels of corporations, up to the highest levels of the government,” Mr. Flynn said recently at a meeting hosted by America’s Future in Kent, Ohio. “People that you know and that you think you respect.”

A New York Times investigation found Flynn family members had made at least $2.2 million monetizing Michael Flynn’s right-wing stardom in recent years, with more than half of that going to Mr. Flynn directly. That total includes several payments not previously reported, but it is still a low estimate, since not all financial records are public. The Times’s reporting also raised questions about whether America’s Future had properly disclosed its payments to Mr. Flynn’s relatives.

Many of Mr. Trump’s closest allies have tried to turn political fame into private income, hawking everything from T-shirts to coffee beans to podcasts. Other than Mr. Trump himself , few have done it on the scale of Mr. Flynn.

Mr. Flynn’s reinvention could lead to resurrection: In the last year, Mr. Trump has alluded several times to his intention to bring the retired general back into his administration should Mr. Trump win the White House in November.

Mr. Flynn and his relatives did not respond directly to questions. A lawyer for Mr. Flynn, Jesse Binnall, said in an interview that the Flynns had earned their payments from America’s Future and other groups and that any errors in their filings were unintentional.

“General Flynn’s dedication to the cause of American freedom is steadfast and resolute, especially as it relates to the freedom of children,” Mr. Binnall said in a statement, adding that the Flynn family’s “strength, unity and dedication to America should be celebrated, not attacked.”

A Pardon and a Windfall

This spring, Mr. Flynn traveled around the country on a bus with one of his sons, Michael Flynn Jr., and a collection of right-wing influencers, stopping in churches and other venues where V.I.P. ticket buyers paid as much as $200 to meet the retired general.

The occasion was the showing of a hagiographical movie about Mr. Flynn’s rise out of a large Irish American clan in Rhode Island to the pinnacle of power — and, in its telling, his unjust fall at the hands of enemies in the government.

One of the movie’s themes is Mr. Flynn’s financial strain after leaving the White House. He served less than a month on the job before resigning amid reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about phone calls with a Russian diplomat. He later twice pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about the communication but retracted the plea. The Justice Department ultimately dropped the case, and Mr. Flynn was pardoned by Mr. Trump in the final weeks of his term.

Paying for his legal morass took a financial toll. Mr. Flynn and his wife sold their Northern Virginia home. Mr. Flynn’s sister, Barbara Redgate, organized a fund to help pay for lawyers.

While the fund had few legal limits on its use, the money would be used “solely to defray attorneys’ fees and other costs related to legal representation,” the fund said on its website.

After Mr. Flynn’s legal troubles largely ended in 2020, there were hundreds of thousands of dollars left in the fund, unused. Ms. Redgate said in a deposition last year that she had received about $265,000 of that money for “all the time I put into running the account." Another sister, Clare Eckert, got an undisclosed amount for “writing and analyzing.”

Michael Flynn got the remainder — between $250,000 and $1 million, she said.

Mr. Binnall, the lawyer, said Ms. Redgate had worked more than full time on the project, raising money by speaking at events and making media appearances. He declined to say how much money Mr. Flynn had received but said Mr. Flynn considered the payment reimbursement for earlier legal bills.

A New Family Business

The legal fund was just part of a stable of interconnected committees, nonprofit groups and companies — all trading on Michael Flynn’s popularity in far-right circles and several of them earning income for his relatives.

Mr. Flynn kept a schedule of appearances, charging Republican groups and candidates up to $9,000 per speech and more for consulting, according to state and federal campaign records. He headlined the ReAwaken tour, a roadshow of Christian nationalist figures. He and his son Michael, with whom the elder Mr. Flynn had once started a consulting firm, began promoting T-shirts and other branded gear online. Mr. Flynn and his brother Joseph teamed up with Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com and a major backer of efforts to contest the 2020 election, to create a nonprofit group called the America Project.

In 2021 , that group paid a business controlled by Michael Flynn $200,000 for consulting and another controlled by Joseph Flynn around $150,000. (In 2022 , Joseph Flynn’s earnings from the group rose to about $260,000. He is no longer associated with it.)

More recently, Michael Flynn has also gotten into the media business, joining the board of a penny stock company behind an online video and podcast venture that frequently features him in its content. He received compensation of $375,000 in restricted stock for consulting work, records show.

But no venture has become a family affair quite like America’s Future.

The group was started as an anti-Communist effort in the 1940s and has cycled through conservative causes since. In the 1980s, its leading figure was Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-feminist crusader.

But the group was largely dormant when, in 2021, its entire board resigned and its $3 million in leftover assets passed to the control of Mr. Flynn.

The group’s previous leaders did not respond to requests for comment.

Before Mr. Flynn took over, tax filings show, the group’s chairmen and board members had been unpaid volunteers. That was typical. The nonprofit industry group BoardSource found that fewer than 1 percent of charities like this one paid their board members.

Under Mr. Flynn, that changed.

Besides the salary the group paid Mr. Flynn as chairman, it also paid his brother Joseph — a health care executive — $50,000 to be the group’s treasurer in 2021 . Like his brother, Joseph Flynn worked two hours per week, according to tax filings.

The group has also paid another Flynn sibling, Mary Flynn O’Neill, a former administrator at Catholic churches, $148,000 to be its executive director. A fourth Flynn — Valerie, Joseph’s wife — received $1,050 to work in a booth at a convention and to help with “decorating and office set-up,” according to court filings in a recent lawsuit.

The next year, the nonprofit group paid more Flynns. A company run by Michael Flynn’s sister, Ms. Eckert, was paid $128,000 for public relations work. And it paid $146,000 to a law firm run by Alicia Kutzer, Michael Flynn’s niece, according to tax filings.

(One Flynn not listed as a partner or vendor in any of the political ventures is Michael Flynn’s brother Charles, a general who commands U.S. Army Pacific.)

It is not illegal for nonprofit groups to pay their leaders’ relatives, as long as they disclose those transactions.

But in 2022, when an I.R.S. form asked if America’s Future had done business with companies controlled by Mr. Flynn’s relatives, America’s Future answered “no.” In fact, it had paid companies that appear to be controlled by Ms. Eckert and Ms. Kutzer. The group also omitted the payments to Valerie Flynn in its 2021 filing with the I.R.S. and left out its payments to Ms. Flynn O’Neill in state filings in Hawaii and California, records show. The America Project, the nonprofit group led by Joseph Flynn, also did not disclose its payments to family members to the I.R.S.

Mr. Binnall, the lawyer, said those appeared to be unintentional errors.

Under the law , the I.R.S. can fine nonprofit groups up to $50,000 for filing tax returns with false information. But tax-law experts said that provision was not often used, because the short-handed I.R.S. audits only a tiny fraction of nonprofit groups every year.

Tax law experts said they were struck by a disconnect in America’s Future’s finances: As its financial fortunes went down, payments to Flynns went up.

In 2022, donations to America’s Future dropped by 40 percent. Even its biggest fund-raiser was a bust: America’s Future spent so much to hold an event at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club that it lost $63,000 for the night.

The group ate into its savings, sold off assets and lost $637,000 for the year. But at the same time, it tripled the amount it paid to the Flynn family. And despite the financial problems, Mr. Flynn himself got his raise.

“For two hours a week, someone’s getting $60,000?” said Kelly Mathews, who advises charities as chief operating officer of the New York Council of Nonprofits. “At a time when you’re about to hit the wall financially, what is the rationale? They look to me like they’re not very sustainable over time, without a significant influx of cash.”

America’s Future declined to release details about its 2023 finances.

‘Where we go one, we go all’

The group’s first mission after the Flynn takeover was raising money for an election audit in Arizona — an extension of efforts by Mr. Flynn and other Trump allies to try to overturn the results of the election.

After that, Mr. Flynn tried to raise money by selling $99 memberships , complete with a signed copy of his book, a pocket Constitution and a T-shirt printed with “I’m a Champion for America’s Future.” But tax filings show that effort raised only $17,500 in 2022 (as a tax-exempt group, America’s Future is not required to identify its donors).

America’s Future then embraced a new cause: protecting children from sexual abuse and human trafficking.

In doing so, the group began to amplify a false conspiracy theory, similar to the one at the heart of the QAnon movement: that a global cabal of pedophiles controls the media and politics.

In a video on its website, members of the group’s board and advisory board echoed the false “ Pizzagate ” conspiracy theory, a QAnon precursor alleging that prominent Democrats were trafficking children at a Washington pizza parlor. Ms. Flynn O’Neill warned of an organized effort to use children’s body parts.

“They have organ harvesting,” she says in a video . “They have also found a way to take the blood, and use the blood, to make themselves youthful.”

It was not the first time the Flynns had shown signs of support for the QAnon movement. Michael Flynn had once filmed himself and family members reciting its motto “Where we go one, we go all.” His slogan — “Digital Soldiers” — became a QAnon rallying cry.

Privately, Mr. Flynn has expressed disdain for the conspiracy theory. In a recorded conversation leaked in 2021, he said he believed QAnon to be “total nonsense” and a disinformation campaign created by the left and the C.I.A.

Yet, the nonprofit group’s new messaging opened up a new stream of revenue: a series of traveling seminars called “Get in the Fight,” where attendees pay $40 to hear Mr. Flynn offer tips about spotting victims and traffickers.

On a recent Friday evening, Mr. Flynn spoke to a few dozen people sitting in pews at the Portage Community Chapel near Kent, Ohio. He described what he said was a sudden outbreak of child exploitation and spoke of a “moral decay” eroding the nation.

Approached by a Times reporter, Mr. Flynn declined to comment and ordered the reporter to leave.

Mr. Flynn’s niece followed his remarks with a slide presentation. His sister, Ms. Flynn O’Neill, watched from the front row.

Karen Yourish , Seamus Hughes , Kirsten Noyes contributed reporting.

David A. Fahrenthold is an investigative reporter writing about nonprofit organizations. He has been a reporter for two decades. More about David A. Fahrenthold

Alexandra Berzon is an investigative reporter covering American politics and elections for The Times. More about Alexandra Berzon

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