Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The question always hangs in the air on how Lydia understands, perhaps she is tune with the moment in which Dean Friedman plays to the receptive and knowing audiences in which ever city he finds himself performing, playing to crowds who do more than understand the appeal of geniality and genius in equal measure, they recognise and identify with the common touch held in the hands of the musician, and the soul of the poet.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are some people on this planet to whom the gift of a smile in their direction is not enough to display the gratitude we owe them for making us happy, for giving us a gift of happiness that can never be fully repaid; some artists, family and friends deserve the longest of hugs and the full appreciation of a room of warm and loving applause, some will never perhaps know just how the simple act of a single song written means the world to thousands.
Dean Friedman at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. October 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The city that doesn’t know how to stop singing is always enhanced by a visitor of repute from beyond its natural domain. Many of the greats from across the seas, from beyond the realms in which the Atlantic Ocean divides and sometimes conquers as it crashes into the cliffs and harbours and steals moment after moment of time and crumbling portions of land, have made their way to Liverpool to remind the city that America and the musical empire of Britain are forever linked and entwined.
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The applause could have rung out all night inside the Epstein Theatre; Dean Friedman can have also performed well into the small hours of the following day if time deemed it possible. However, even the sight of the American music maker on stage for two sets was more than enough in the end to placate the crowd who had sat thrilled and elated by the sound of the man, his melody and his music.