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Jazz Duo Salon Concert

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Lua Hadar and Jason Martineau
Sunday, June 12, 4pm.
Studio NPG, 1695 18th Street, Studio 317, San Francisco

Pure voice and elegant jazz piano are in store as the new Studio NPG presents its first Salon Concert. Lua Hadar, multilingual world jazz vocalist (Founder / Creative Director of Studio NPG), in a duo concert with Jason Martineau: pianist, composer, and music director of Hadar’s high-octane band, TWIST.

At the performance, the audience helps to choose the set list for TWIST's upcoming live CD/DVD recording.
Wine and audience talk-back at intermission. 2 sets.

SOLSTICE PARTY PRESS RELEASE

Sunday, June 20, at 7pm: Summer Solstice Party. Music director and pianist Jason Martineau leads the band with Dan Feiszli on bass, Jim Zimmerman on drums, Jaz Sawyer on latin percussion, Tony Malfatti on reeds and Dave Baioni on jazz accordion. Celebrate Lua's birthday and party in the Solstice.

Summer Solstice Party is presented as part of Tomorrow! Productions’ 2010 Something C.O.O.L. Summer Cabaret Festival at the Eureka Theater, 215 Jackson Street, San Francisco.

http://somethingcoolcabaret.com/

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Press release for Cultural Exchange in Lille & Lomme

Saturday May 22, 2010
Lille (Lomme), France

Lua Hadar in concert with The French TWIST. A collaboration
with the Ville de Lomme, Ecole Municipale de Musique et de Dance de Lomme, theater company Les Chantiers de L’Indédit de Lille, and the Musiconoclast’ Orchestra, under the direction of Albin Suffys.

Bilingual Master Class
on the Great American Songbook
at 10:00
Concert at 19:30

"Théâtre les Tisserands"
60 rue Victor Hugo
59160 Lomme (Lille)

Thursday, June 3 at 7 pm: Lua stopped off on her way back from France to perform a set of her “jazz without borders” with the Karen Hernandez Trio at the Professional Vocalists Showcase, curated by Dolores Petersen.
Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill
6122 Sunset Blvd
(in Hollywood’s historic Gower Gulch)

Cornelia Street Café Press Release

Lua Hadar with TWIST returns to New York for a debut at the Cornelia Street Café prior to the May concert tour in France, performing French Connection, which sold out San Francisco's Rrazz Room. "...superb… creates the sound and atmosphere of a Paris music hall…” - Cabaret Scenes, San Francisco. Proclaimed “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark” by the City of New York, the Cornelia Street Café has become a cultural and intellectual focal point since its establishment in 1977.

Piano: Jason Martineau
Bass: Tom Hubbard
Drums & Percussion: Vince Cherico
Reeds: Dave Riekenberg
Jazz Accordion: Ron Oswanski

Saturday April 24, 2010 at 9 pm and 10:30 pm
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village
New York City 10014

Sunday, Sept 13, 2009 at 3pm
Lua Hadar with TWIST debut their new show,
French Connection

Headliner Lua Hadar on vocals
Music Director Jason Martineau on piano
Daniel Fabricant on bass
Jim Zimmerman on drums
Patricio Angulo on Latin percussion
Tony Malfatti on reeds
Dave Miotke on jazz accordion

The Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko, Union Square
222 Mason St 
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.therrazzroom.com
French Connection on Facebook

July 25, 2009 – Paris, France
Lua Hadar with New York pianist Sheldon Forrest in a featured concert of American jazz and international favorites at Paris’ swank Swan Bar.
Showtime: 9:30 PM

Swan Bar
165, Bld du Montparnasse
75006 Paris
http://www.swanbar.fr/
http://www.myspace.com/swanbar
Lua in Paris on Facebook

Saturday, December 6, 2008,
two shows, at 7:30 and 9:15 pm
Angelica’s Bistro
863 Main Street, Redwood City

Lua Hadar with TWIST onstage at their international debut - Main Hall, Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok 10th International Festival of Dance & Music, October 2008. www.bangkokfestivals.com

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Lua Hadar with TWIST
in the West Coast release
of their new CD following their critically acclaimed appearance at New York's Iridium Jazz Club.

May 29th, 2008, Jazz at Pearl's
256 Columbus, San Francisco
www.jazzatpearls.com

“World jazz” vocalist LUA HADAR with her band, TWIST, debut their new self-titled CD - a cosmopolitan mix of original, international and standard jazz tunes "twisted" in a surprising fusion by Hadar and her musical director, jazz pianist and arranger, Jason Martineau. TWIST, a sophisticated high-energy band, is comprised of piano, bass, drums, congas and reeds, headlined by the passionate Lua Hadar on vocals. Presented in association with Scott Barbarino.

Iridium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway @ 51st Street
New York City
Saturday, May 10, 2008
7 PM – one show only
www.iridiumjazzclub.com

Lua Hadar with TWIST
Friday, October 12, 2007
3 sets beginning at 8 pm
2120 Allston Way, BERKELEY
www.annasjazzisland.com

Lua Hadar with TWIST
Thursday, October 18, 2007
The Octavia Lounge
3 sets begin at 7:30 PM
1772 Market St. @ Octavia
SAN FRANCISCO
www.octavialounge.com

Hear Lua on the Number One Radio Station in Northern California.
Tune your AM radio to 810 from 10 am to 12 noon, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 2007, or online at www.kgo.com.

Lua performs live with Jason Martineau (and maybe even the band!) on the 27th ANNUAL KGO CURE-A- THON, benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

The CURE-A-THON features KGO Radio personalities, special guests and live bands. It is a live, commercial- free pledge event and auction airing on KGO Radio.

Listeners call in their pledges and bid on exciting auction items. Every dollar raised goes directly to fund leukemia and lymphoma research. The full broadcast is from 7 p.m. Friday, March 30th to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 31st.
Over the past 26 years, KGO Radio has raised over $14 million to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Last year over 200,000 people tuned in to the CURE-A-THON. Be one of them this year, and hear a selection during each half hour from 10 am to 12 noon on March 31st from the "Jazz Without Borders" set list. Lua and Jason will also be interviewed.

Stay tuned!

Lua Hadar with the Jason Martineau Jazz Trio:
The Great American Songbook & International Standards
Saturday, February 17, 2007
3 sets beginning at 8 pm
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley CA
Cover: $10 + 1-drink min.
Reservations: (510) 841-JAZZ (5299)

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Directions, parking: www.annasjazzisland.com
(a 2-minute walk from The Jazz School and Berkeley Rep)

Sexy Italian ballads, funk à la Français, and the Great American Songbook: Following her sold-out November success, vocalist Lua Hadar returns to deliver her unique “jazz without borders” sound, backed by Jason Martineau on piano, Eugene Warren on bass and Randy Odell on drums.
SF Bay Times “10 Best Shows of 2006.”