New Performance Group’s education department is called Studio NPG, through which master classes for adults and education services for youth are delivered. With the coming of 2025, Lua is excited to have found a great base for Studio NPG Lisboa.
Lua begins - or really continues - her LISBON PROJECT, with an upcoming birthday concert on June 21, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal, at Fado Bar Duque da Rua, which you can find in the Chiado section of town on Rua do Duque. (Duke of the Road on Road of the Dukes). Read the backstory.
Friday, June 21, 2024 @ 20:00 (doors @ 19:30) (8:00pm, doors 7:30)
Sexta -feira, 21 de junho
Club Duque da Rua @ Rua do Duque 23, Lisbon.
Lua Hadar and Sheldon Forrest perform short sets of international vocal jazz
as guests enjoy full bar, wine and tapas in an intimate acoustic music bar.
Reservations can be made with: info@duquedarua.pt
OR TEXT whatsapp +351 917 216 761
facebook.com/duquedarua
Save the Date Nov 7, 2023
FROM SHELDON FORREST, Paris, France:
SAVE THE DATE—I am giving a special concert with Lua Hadar at Osmoz Café, 33 rue de l’Ouest, 14eme, Metro Gaite-Josephine Baker, Tuesday November 7, 8-11pm…guest singers welcomed last hour.
Lua Hadar's signature brand of cosmopolitan jazz brings songs from several genres and languages into the jazz idiom. Lua has charmed audiences at the finest venues and international festivals from San Francisco to Hollywood to New York to Paris to Bangkok.
Her full-length Concert Film, Like A Bridge, appears on iTunes and Google Play and she has produced three albums and two original music videos with her band. Lua’s recordings appear on iTunes, Youtube, Google Play, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify, and most digital services.
Héritière d’une tradition artistique familiale, son père saxophoniste lui donne un don pour la musique et de sa mère écrivaine, un talent pour la poésie des mots, et de tous les deux, une vision d’un rapprochement des peuples du monde. The Great American Songbook était la bande sonore de son enfance à New York. Ses nombreux échanges culturels l’ont formée et ont inspiré chez elle une vision globale du monde. Celle-ci s’impose à travers la chanson qui traite essentiellement notre humanité commune.
STAY TUNED! 2023
Lua is at work on a new MUSIC VIDEO, the third to complete her trilogy of original music videos with an Earth Mother protagonist.
Our Common Humanity
The story of the first video of the series, OUR COMMON HUMANITY, was told by a Desert Priestess who reminds us that all humanity are equal in that they all need and deserve water, food, and shelter, the basics of survival.
In the second music video, SAUDADE, a Sea Priestess wonders if her youth really was simpler or was it just the shelter she received that protected her from humanity’s harsh realities?
The third original music video of the trilogy will be a video set to an updated version of Lua’s song NO BORDERS, recorded in 2008 on her band’s first album, Lua Hadar with Twist. Stay tuned for a video release this year!
The Wild Women Collaborative of San Francisco
had a blast on APRIL 14, 2022, LIVE ON STAGE at The Drawing Room in San Francisco.
Here’s a video clip and please SUBSCRIBE at our Best Bad Things Youtube Channel and we’ll keep you in the loop.
LIVESTREAM October 17, 2020 at 5pm Pacific
WHO: The Wild Women Collaborative of San Francisco presents:
WHAT: Livestream Launch Party for our original musical, The Best Bad Things, with music by Allison Lovejoy and Candace Forest
WHEN: Saturday, October 17, at 5pm Pacific.
WHERE: Youtube Channel - SUBSCRIBE for free
HOW: Livestream Link
WHY: Backstage Sneak Peek with Music, Video and Conversations with Wild Women
NEW WEBSITE: bestbadthingssf.com
The Best Bad Things: Hear the Siren Songs of San Francisco’s Brave, Bawdy & Beautiful Women! Songs of heroism and hedonism, romance and real estate - from the Gold Rush to the Fifties. Bad girls, Crusaders and High-Living Women! A Modular Musical Made by Women! 10 Years in the Making!
Come backstage with the show’s creators, The Wild Women Collaborative: Candace Forest, Allison Lovejoy, Natalie Greene, Beth Wilmurt, and Lua Hadar, as they give a sneak peek at some of the characters, stories and original songs they have been working on. Join us for the Youtube Livestream Sneak Peek at The Best Bad Things, on Saturday, October 17, 5pm Pacific! LIVE from San Francisco!
“Saudade” Original Bossa Nova Music Video with English Lyrics by Lua Hadar (2020)
American vocalist and songwriter Lua Hadar releases the second original music video of her Voyager Project with the YouTube debut of her new song “Saudade”.
“Saudade” is a Portuguese word describing a profound emotional state of yearning for happiness that has passed. Although production on the song was begun in 2018, the feeling of “saudade” seems particularly pertinent in “The Time of Corona.”
Digging deep into her archives, her past, and her own spirit, Lua asks herself questions about the innocence of childhood, aroused by a sense memory.
“I was raised on Long Island, New York, and we went to the Atlantic Ocean beaches frequently. Walking on an Atlantic beach decades later, my feet remembered the specific feel and temperature of the sand, and the lyrics came pouring out of me.”
The 4:40 minute song and 5:45 minute music video were produced in collaboration with Hadar’s longtime music partner, Dr. Jason Martineau, whose skills in music production, photography, and video production are on display in this new piece.
“Saudade” ready for debut
Lua has been in Production with artistic partner Jason Martineau for a brand new project in short form video. Lua performs her new original song and directs, while Martineau uses his skills in Music Production and Video Editing.
2018 HIGHLIGHT
In concert with her 7-piece band and in 7 languages, Lua Hadar premiered a new original music video, Our Common Humanity, at Fort Mason's San Francisco International Arts Festival
MUSIC VIDEO CREDITS
our common humanity
Director: Lua Hadar
Editor: Jason Martineau
Videography: Kingmond Young, Hamilton Everts, Jason Martineau, Lua Hadar
Photography: Jason Martineau, Kingmond Young
Music Production: Jason Martineau
Music & Lyrics: Lua Hadar
Cloak: Toni Matthies
Makeup/Hair: Peggy Lucas
New Performance Group © 2018
LIVE SHOW CREDITS
Producer: Lua Hadar
Music Director: Jason Martineau
Band Personnel: Vocals: Lua Hadar; Piano: Jason Martineau; Bass: Sascha Jacobsen; Drums: Celso Alberti; Percussion: Ian Dogole; Reeds: Sheldon Brown, Backup Vocals: Claudia Landivar and Candace Forest.
Videography: Hamilton Everts
Makeup/Hair: Rebeca Flores
Sound/Lights: Taylor Gonzalez
AUDIENCE COMMENTS
- ...marvelous, music and message-laden production... it was felt deeply by the audience. Everyone on the stage was a part of the harmonious whole and you radiated such love and energy throughout.
- We loved the concert tonight; you really got us thinking about a lot of things. Yes, as you said tonight, we're all in this together.
- Inspiring, fun and moving. And the band - WOW! What talent!
- I was moved throughout by the power and passion and joy and compassion in your voice and the mastery of your presence and connection with the audience! The band of course was KILLER FAB! Wow!!!
- I enjoyed, especially the Yiddish Tango, which moved me to tears.
- Your message of tolerance and inclusion came across loud and clear.
- What I was not prepared for, though, was your rendition of the Japanese song - done with heart and subtlety which showed the your vocal range and strength. Very moving.