for immediate release
This Spring the glamorous and sultry Luna Tart is headed to Australia for her debut tour of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Byron Bay. Luna Tart is reminiscent of a chanteuse from the 1930's with a voice that goes from a shimmer to a growl and lyrics that will hit you right in your lonely little heart. She has been compared to Piaf, Dietrich and Madeline Khan: she's THAT soulful, THAT sexy, and THAT hilarious.
Luna is the creation of Laura Freeman who has performed all over the USA, Canada and Europe as both a folk singer and a children's entertainer. Luna emerged from Laura's psyche in 2004. As Luna Tart, she won best of the Austin Frontera Fest in 07 and with Rudy Ramirez, she wrote and produced the 2008 one woman show "Luna Tart Died (of a broken heart)". Luna emcees burlesque shows, drag king events and performs around Austin, TX, in various disreputable speakeasies with her band, "The Cocktails."
As a solo artist she has played Hot Springs. AR; the desert ghost town of Terlingua, TX; Manhattan at Joe's Pub and Vancouver Canada – at Slickety Jim's just before it burned to the ground (an event which Luna vehemently denies having anything to do with)-
"Laura Freeman's Luna Tart Died of a Broken Heart is a simultaneous composition of magnificence and desperation"
— Austin Chronicle
"A beautiful jazz voice and a perfect sense of timing to balance comedy and poignancy"
— Austin 360.com
"Her singing is ASTOUNDING. But there are plenty of gorgeous voices in this town. What sets Laura and her show apart is a wild imagination and an ability to get the audience
inside her head"
— Austinist
"Luna doesn't just ape the cabaret kittens of old, she remolds them
into a beautiful (and frequently hilarious) homage. Ms. Tart is everything we'd expect to find in a good (and sleazy) cabaret… If cosmos has any justice there's another reality where Luna Tart really
lived and these songs are American standards"
— www.sepiachord.com
"Sally Bowles and Lotte Lenya's long-lost love child."
— Austin Chronicle
"Freeman's performance is nothing less than jaw-dropping perfect timing, keen humor and seemingly infinite vocal inflections to reflect her character's myriad mood swings and personality disorders"
— Dirty Linen
"She pens charming cabaret-jazz songs and warps them in a delightful vintage sleeve."
— www.lunakafe.com
"Laura Freeman is channeling the ghost of our imagination on Luna
Tart Died, this is the music hall of the 20's and 30's as it exists in our
collective mind's eye."
— Sepiachord.com
"Laura Freeman's album Luna Tart Died is "a stunning theatrical
manifesto chronicling the life of Luna Tart."
—Dirty Linen
