LadyLau

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LadyLau visits France

In May and June, LadyLau is touring Holland, in juli she is crossing the borders! On July 10th she'll be performing a living room concert with a summer touch near the town of Hesdin, in the lovely region known as "the seven valleys" (Les Sept Vallées) in the North of France. This region will bring out the vacation mood in everyone! 

This special concert will take place in French style, with the cozy, intimate and warm feel LadyLau is known for, The Dutch hosts welcome you in to their home with regional stories and products to heighten the summer sense.

Tickets for this concert (€10 p.p.) can be ordered through the webshop, or send an email to contact [at] ladylau.com.

In the area of Hesdin you can find a lot of places to stay for the night and places to enjoy the specialties of France. Look for "Les Sept Vallées", or the town of Hesdin, France to find everything you need to make it a little vacation!

Living room concert Gorinchem cancelled

The living room concert in Gorinchem (24th June) will be rescheduled to September/October. We will keep you informed of the new date. If you don't feel like waiting, we welcome you to the living room concert in IJsselstein on July 1st, including a special Indonesian dinner. Buy your tickets here! 

Three more dates added to "Back in Touch" living room concert tour 

The tour has started! After the first concert on May 1st in Schiedam, LadyLau will travel to these living rooms in the next months: 

Want to be there? Book your seats now by sending an e-mail to contact [at[ ladylau.com. Tickets are €10,- p.p., except the last concert. July 1st will be a very special closing concert, a so called "rice table concert". You will not only be able to enjoy a live performance by LadyLau, you will also be treated to a complete Indonesian rice table dinner. Tickets for this special concert are €25,- p.p. Be sure to book your tickets on time, because seats are limited! You will receive your entry ticket through the e-mail, as well as additional info. 

See you there! 

LadyLau “Back in Touch”
Announcing the first dates for the living room concert tour

It’s almost May, time for the “Back in Touch” living room concert tour by LadyLau! LadyLau will travel around the country, from living room to living room. Every living room is different, every concert is different, every location is special in its own way. Apart from the songs from her first album “Sense”, LadyLau will also play some new songs that she hasn’t played live yet.

This “Back in Touch” tour is all about meetings. Seeing old friends, or meeting new ones, sharing and making stories, or just being there. Sit back and enjoy the lovely live sound of LadyLau and the hospitality of the hosts and hostesses.

Be there!

The first living rooms LadyLau will be playing, are:

- Sunday afternoon 1st of May Schiedam
- Sunday evening  22nd of May Uden
- Sunday afternoon 12th of June Nieuwegein

Book your seats (€10,- p.p.) now by sending an e-mail to contact [at] ladylau.com and you will receive your ticket(s) and additional information back. There is no entry without a ticket, so be sure to order soon!

More concerts will be announced, so keep checking the website!

Would you like to host such a wonderful party as well, and can your living room hold at least 10 people? You can! Send an e-mail to contact [at] ladylau.com and we will contact you shortly. Also, if you would like to receive more information  on hosting a living room concert, feel free to contact us!

Introducing upcoming tour “Back in Touch” and tour manager Jolanda Peverelli

Spring is coming, high time for some fresh new music! LadyLau will be back in your living rooms with songs to touch your senses and some new songs that are in the running for an upcoming new album.

This special living room concert tour “Back in Touch” will take place in May and June in living rooms all over Holland. For this tour, LadyLau has teamed up with Jolanda Peverelli, the new tour manager, who will be her spokeswoman and in charge of organisation.

LadyLau: I am glad to have Jolanda on the team! We have worked together in other situations (as some of you might recall), which has always been a pleasure. Thanks to Jolanda, I will be able to spend all my time and energy on the music and the performance. Combining both our strengths and passions will enable us, and hopefully the hosts and guests even more, to enjoy this tour to the fullest!

Jolanda: I can’t wait to go on the road with LadyLau! I’ve seen LadyLau perform before and also joined her on stage several times as sign language interpreter, but this really adds something different to working together. I really think this tour will show you all our strength, our passion and both our talents in full blossom. So: “don’t hold you breath, but breathe in deep…”.

Do you want to host one of the special “Back in Touch” living room concerts, and have LadyLau play live in your own living room? Send a message to contact [at] ladylau.com or contact Jolanda via our brandnew "LadyLau Management" Twitter account: @LadyLauLive

Spring is coming, it’s time for a new chapter
Spread the word, VocalEyes!

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News 2010

Twedding! 20th October

The first Twitter-wedding ever:

Organised by, with and for tweeps.

The biggest crowd-sourcing event in the history of Holland started the moment @hoks (René Hoksbergen) asked his love @JanDor (Jannetta Dorsman) to marry him, during the #Tweist meetup via Twitter and she @-replyed with an enthousiastic "Yess!!".

 

Working on a new album, 11th August

LadyLau is busy writing new songs for an upcoming new album. Following the concept album Sense (February 2009), this will again be an album with a specific theme. The subject this time will be “voice”, about how your voice is both a connection to others, as well as a connection with your inner self. The working title is “VocalEyes”.

Want to hear a sample? Be sure to check the calendar for live performances and be there!

News 2009

Livingroomconcert Twitter Auction for Marco Borsato, 24th December

On the 23rd of December 2009 the time was there: the livingroomconcert for the Twitter Auction for Marco Borsato! In the afternoon I got in the car to the Borsato residence, where I was received in a very friendly and hospitable way by Marco and his family. De ambiance was relaxed, cozy and comfortable. Proudly Marco told me his daughter had just started piano lessons, and of course she showed me her first lesson booklet.

When the whole family sat down on the comfy couches, with something to drink and to eat for everyone, I got seated behind the piano and played. One by one I played songs from Sense: See and Taste, Choice, Sensation and Bittersweet. For all the members of the family that just celebrated their birthday that month, I played the song “Your heart will know mine”, especially now in this time where you can just enjoy each others company. Without words, without signs, purely by sense. Closing off the first part was “Senses”, the song in which all the senses come together to one experience, one moment.

And then there was time for a little break, and to get some new drinks. The kids decided to put on warm clothes and enjoy the snow in the back yard. In the mean time, Marco, Leontien and their friends once again settled on the couches to enjoy the second half. From Hear and Feel to Voices of the Past, a song that is still very intriguing in the acoustic version as opposed to the studio version. A song that can, at the same time, give you the feeling that is described by Won’t you come back: pain, loss and a sort of melancholy that somehow also includes hope. Hope for something better. That same bit of hope that is expressed in Strange, in honour of the loved ones that passed away from us this past year or before that, family or friends. How strange that the world just keeps on moving, without them. A feeling that many will recognise and be reminded of in these upcoming Christmas Days. A feeling which hopefully Rainbow Thoughts can enlighten a bit: the power of positive thinking and how those thoughts can be transformed into tangible things: a touch, a hug, a get together with friends, like this afternoon.

The closing song was Zweven, a song that is my wish for the Borsato family as much as it is for everyone else for the upcoming holidays and the new year: the feeling that everything is a little lighter, a little more energetic and that you can look into the world with a positive gaze and think: today I’m floating!

That feeling was exactly what I had this day, and with a lot of pleasure and joy I look back on a beautiful afternoon, a cozy get together, and I want to thank the Borsato family for their hospitality and openness. I wish you all happy holidays and an inspiring, energetic and marvellous 2010!

Twitter auction: LadyLau will be playing live in the livingroom of... Marco Borsato! 23rd of December

Today is the day: LadyLau will be performing Live in the Livingroom of the Borsato-family! 

For those of you who have been following LadyLau on Twitter, the "Twitter Auction" will not have passed unnoticed. This initiative was started by Jessica de Kok to support a charity in Afghanistan (also supported by her husband's Task Force, which was stationed there), that works hard to enhance the quality of primairy education for the Afghanistan children.

So she started the "Twitter Auction", for which supporters could offer products and services for other to place a bid on. The money raised by collecting the highest biddings per lot, is donated fully to Schoolsupport4Afghanistan and Het Vrouwenhuis van Kabul.

LadyLau decided to support this wonderful charity by offering a livingroom-concert for the highest bidder. To her surprise, the highest bidder turned out to be none other than Marco Borsato, a famous Dutch singer! When the auction was closed, Marco told LadyLau he is very delighted to hear her play live. LadyLau is very much looking forward to this concert and will keep you updated!

Willems Wondere Weiland

LadyLau hit the stage this summer! On the 4th of July, she was on stage at Willems Wondere Weiland!

LadyLau on RTV9

On April 6th Laura was guest performer at the 100th show of "Kunstvormen" on RTV9. During the show she played several live songs for the small audience of celebrators and the listeners of Ed Kieckens, the deejay. For an impression, please visit www.unieuws.nl, photo's kan be found at the photopage of this site.

 

Video "Strange" (live) online!

A new live video is online for you all to watch. The song "Strange", recorded at the Feel-Sation, 20th of February 2009 at Seats2Meet.com in Utrecht. Click here to view the video!

Review online: www.progwereld.org!

This welknown Dutch progressive rock website has also reviewed the newest LadyLau album, the result (in Dutch) can be read at www.progwereld.org!

 

Review online: www.ze.nl

The online magazine www.ze.nl interviewed Laura about her work as artist, music therapist, trainer and coach and ofcourse also about the new album. This article is available in dutch only, read it at: www.ze.nl

Launched!

"Sense" is released! With already two shows down, "Sense" was launched with true Sensation! You can now order your own (signed) copy through the orderpage on this site.

For those of you who can't wait to get the album in your mailbox, there's also the option to download the album under a Creative Commons license: in low quality (free) or high quality (max. €10,-). Go to ladylau.bandcamp.com to listen to the songs of the album directly and get your downloads going!

I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

See you on stage..

Background and storyline

While the ‘physical form’ of the album is taking shape, the story behind the album has been developing and forming for a while. About a year ago the idea to write an album about the senses started growing on Laura. In her daily practise as therapist, (mental) trainer and coach, she noticed every day again how important it is to be in contact with your senses.

During the writing process, she noticed how difficult it is to split the different sensations, because it was so easy to interpret the senses and ‘colour’ them with own opinions, preconceptions and memories. And even more, big confusion and misinterpretations aroused when the five senses and common ‘sense’ started talking at the same time.

From that confusion the story sets of. The miracle of how people think they understand each other perfectly, whilst talking about completely different things. But it appears that the eyes, ears, nose, taste, smell and feel all tell their own story. If we listen to all five of them and the story they tell together, who knows, we might be able to make real ‘sense’ out of it.

The story is told following these chapters:
The Difference
See: Choice
Taste: Bittersweet
Smell: Sensation
Hear: Voices of the Past
Feel: Rainbow Thoughts
Senses
Your Heart Will Know Mine

News 2008

Tension - live

The live video of Tension, taken at the Ayreon Fanmeet 2008, is online!

With special thanks to Jolanda Peverelli-Houx for joining me on stage as signlanguage translator, giving an amazing impression of the song!

Check it out here!

LadyLau - Zweven

Some of you may have noticed already, that a new video has appeared on my profile sites. And this is not just some video, but the first, shiny, new LadyLau videoclip! From the first demo "EP1" this is "Zweven". Take a look at Myspace or Youtube!

LadyLau @ Ayreon Fanmeet

The second edition of the Ayreon Fanmeet will take place at October 11th in P3 Purmerend. This yearly event is organised by fans, for fans of Ayreon / Arjen Lucassen. During this day (1 till 7 pm) both Galanor and LadyLau will get on stage to each play a set of their own songs as well as Ayreon covers. LadyLau is really looking forward to this day and she has some suprises waiting for you all... So be sure to check www.ayreonfanmeet.com and order your tickets (€10) asap!

On stage with Dial @ IJsselpop

On September 20th there will be a local festival in IJsselstein (Netherlands) called "IJsselpop". At this festival the band Dial, featuring Liselotte Hegt (Ayreon) and Kristoffer Gildenlöw (ex-Pain of Salvation), will be performing on stage. And to her joy, Laura will be joining the band on stage behind the keys! Come see this great show!

Check the Dial Myspace
More info on the festival: www.ijsselpop.nl

Escapedia ft. LadyLau - War

Another new project! Fresh from the presses, Escapedia (Norway) is now in the air! Best described by the man behind the music himself, Andreas Ravnestadt:

"Escapedia is my pet project which I have been working on these last few months. Today I release one song called "War" featuring the esteemed artist LadyLau, and also announce the availability of a website for this project.

This song deals with the ongoing conflicts in the academic area of theoretical physics — in particular, string theories vs. other possible unifications of gravity and quantum physics. Also, this song depicts an intervowen story of two lovers travelling to a distant black hole to engage in quantum physics research.

I would like to thank LadyLau for her high level of professionalism, and for contributing her beautiful voice and words to this song. In fact, without LadyLau this song would never have existed! Please support her work!"

Download Escapedia's debut song: War
Visit the Escapedia website

This music is released free of charge in high-quality MP3, and will also be available as lossless better-than-CD-quality at a later time. This music is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license.

 

Blackorchidx ft. LadyLau - Tides of Faith

A little while ago, Laura got contacted by UK composer Ali Campbell to join in on his project "Cupboard Under". She wrote and recorded vocals for the song "Tides of Faith", of which a first mix has been published. Go check it out at: www.myspace.com/blackorchidxmetal.

Surprise acoustic performance with Arjen/Ayreon and Marjan Welman

January 26th, Laura joined Arjen Lucassen and Marjan Welman on stage for a unique acoustic performance to promote the new Ayreon album "01011001". Visitors of the Velvet Music Store in Delft, Holland, were surprised with this unexpected guest performance, for which Marjan and Arjen had invited Laura this same day.