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BIO
MINDI HADAN, a rising star on the San Francisco music scene, has been playing to Standing Room Only audiences at the popular nightclub, "Jazz At Pearl's" with her unique blend of
R & B influenced, country flavored, jazz standards.
Born in Nebraska and raised in Texas, Mindi had a true musical education from the Heartland. The youngest of eight children, Mindi grew up singing in the church choir. She spent every Sunday night watching Lawrence Welk, which lead to forming an Acapella four part harmony singing group with her sisters. During these formative years, Mindi's mother introduced her to Big Band music, Polkas and Yodeling.
A turning point of "living in the sticks" was when Mindi discovered the discount cassette bin at the local gas station with $1.99 collections of Patsy Cline, Connie Francis, Judy Garland, and surprisingly, Marilyn Monroe. This eclectic treasure chest was the beginning of Mindi's musical alchemy of combining styles and bringing new interpretations to vintage classics.
Mindi is currently living in San Francisco and working on her first CD.
Calendar
Saturday June 5, 2010 8-9:30pm
MBAR IN HOLLYWOOD
1253 VINE STREET (SW CORNER OF FOUNTAIN AND VINE)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED 323-856-0036
"ELLIS AND ALYSON" AND FRIENDS
BRAD ELLIS, FROM THE TV'S "GLEE" AND BROADWAY'S EYDIE ALYSON WELCOME MINDI HADAN AND JUDY BUTTERFIELD.
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Friday July 16, 2010 7:30-10:30
Fivepointsarthouse
72 Tehema St.
San Francisco, Ca
Underground Roots Series Presents "One Night in Paris"
Our opening show, One Night in Paris, features a killer musical lineup with performances by gypsy funksters, "Gaucho", old school country chanteuse, Mindi Hadan", and power alt-rockers, "The Scot Sier Band".
Brad Ellis and Eydie Alyson
M Bar
Hollywood, CA
The love-fest between Brad Ellis and wife Eydie Alyson was a given going in, and while many in the audience came to see the couple as the evenings main course, it was their two featured guests Judy Butterfield and Mindi Hadan that provided unexpectedly rich desserts.
Butterfield is a twenty-year-old with the mature voice of a young Judy Garland and the innocence of a girl on the brink of womanhood who has yet to fully realize the full range of power she has on stage; while Hadan is a young woman in full control of a powerful vocal instrument who knows her strengths and demonstrates them full blast.
Grounding the evening were the couple that bills itself as Ellis and Alyson, performing a stunning array of standards from the Great American Songbook with an easy rapport that puts an audience at ease. Ellis cherub-faced and tossing quips verbal and instrumental is an accomplished pianist and arranger currently seen on TVs Glee, while Alyson a compact bundle of energy and talent is a singer-actress who can break your heart or your funny-bone with the turn of a lyric.
What Ellis's voice lacks in power or range it more than makes up for in his expressive piano-playing and the sincerity of his on-stage persona, whether singing-speaking the lyrics to "No One But Me" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein) from Show Boat or "Lady Be Good "(George and Ira Gershwin), both in tribute to his wife.
Alyson was especially effective in recreating the emotional finale of Seesaw with "I'm Way Ahead" (Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields) in a small tour-de-force while also showing a softer side cooing love songs to Ellis, including a couple of Rodgers and Hart valentines- "My Funny Valentine" and "This Cant Be Love".
The couple were also moving in their duets, including Ellis's "Love Nest: (with lyrics by Peter Morris) and "To Know You Is to Love You" (Robert Allen/Allan Roberts).
In her set, Butterfield showed off a voice thats magnificent and pure, along with superb phrasing and an utterly charming manner. From the first notes of "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein), you know you're in the presence of someone special-a suspicion that was simply confirmed as she moved into "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George and Ira Gershwin).
Butterfield has the ability to give old songs fresh-sounding interpretations possibly because of the still-girlish timbre in her voice notably in her take on "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer); and an irresistibly beautiful "A Sleepin Bee" (Arlen/Truman Capote). She also showed off her acting chops on Christine Lavins clever "Good Thing He Can Read My Mind" and her fun side in an Ellis-arranged duet of "I Got Rhythm "(the Gershwins), which she sang with the pianist. With a bit more life experience to back up the emotions in her lyrics, Butterfield has the potential to inherit the throne of todays top cabaret singers.
While Butterfield is still maturing, Hadan is a bonafide bombshell out of San Francisco with a versatile style and a definite "wow" factor in her performance. She sings blues "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn) like Peggy Lee; country-and-western a medley of "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend/Irving Mills), yodeling included, and a twangy "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe) like Patsy Cline; and jazz an uptempo "I Wish You Love "(Leo Chauliac/Albert A. Beach) and does all of them equally well, though her jazz phrasing sacrificed some of the emotion of the lyrics in favor of singing the notes.
The performers were backed by Nate Light on bass and Tom Bowe on drums, under the musical direction of Clifford Bell.
Elliot Zwiebach
Cabaret Scenes
June 5, 2010
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News and Updates
Mindi is in the studio working on her debut CD release.
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