DEAN FRIEDMAN: 'Lucky Stars' hit-maker announces 40-date UK tour with new album 'American Lullaby'
Dean Friedman embarks on 40-City UK/Ireland tour to coincide with the release of his ninth studio album, ‘American Lullaby’
Dean Friedman, one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation, announces his return to touring, with the launch of a 40-City UK/Ireland concert tour to coincide with the release of his ninth studio album, ‘American Lullaby’. After a two-year, forced-hiatus, Friedman finally returns to the UK to promote the new album, as he traverses the United Kingdom and Ireland. The tour runs from April 21st thru August 22nd, 2022, including stops in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, I.O.W., Morecambe, Leicester, Aberdeen, Glasgow and finishing up with a five-day run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Friedman, best known to UK and Ireland audiences for his string of chart hits, Lucky Stars, Lydia, Woman of Mine, McDonald’s Girl and “Well, Well,” Said the Rocking Chair’, spent the recent lockdown immersed in his home studio working on the new album, ‘American Lullaby’. The crowdfunded album touches on a broad range of topics including: the calamitous pandemic, looming environmental disaster, racism, sexism, our fractured politics, and an intractable culture war. The title track ‘American Lullaby’, a moving account of America’s original sins abetted by its 400-year love affair with guns; ‘Halfway Normal World’, a poignant yearning for release from perpetual lockdown; ‘The Russians Are Coming!’, a 100% factual narrative based on the ‘Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election’ (and prescient warning); ‘Welcome to Stupid Town’ and ‘On a Summer’s Night’. The album also offers up ‘Just Another Birthday Song’, Friedman’s hilarious contender to replace the ubiquitous ‘Happy Birthday’ song, written 125 years ago by the Hill sisters.
“The new album, ‘American Lullaby’,” Friedman explains, “reflects my personal take on all the crazy stuff that’s been happening in America – and around the world - for the last six years. Like all lullabies, it’s filled with tales of dark deeds and disaster, but couched in soft, gentle tones, meant to soothe and comfort the listener, while gently bracing them for the potential terrors that await.”
View the newly released music-video of the title-track, ‘American Lullaby’:
Listening Link to ‘American Lullaby’ the Full Album:
The album will be available in stores and digitally on all the main streaming/download outlets as well as www.DeanFriedman.com
Friedman will be performing selections from the new album along with chart hits and fan favorites drawn from his four-decade career.
Tickets to all of Friedman’s concerts, as well as his new album, can be purchased via his website: www.DeanFriedman.com
Dean Friedman 2022 UK/Ireland ‘American Lullaby’ Tour
April
21 Caernarfon Galeri Caernarfon
22 Sale (Manchester) Waterside Arts Centre
23 Selby Selby Town Hall
24 Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre
26 Farsley (Leeds) The Constitutional
27 Morecambe The Alhambra Theatre
28 Shrewsbury Henry Tudor House
29 Birmingham Pizza Express
30 Hull Wrecking Ball Arts Centre
May
1 Horbury (Wakefield) di Bosco Coffee and Champagne Bar
5 Leicester Y Theatre
6 Harpenden ECM / Eric Morecambe Centre
7 Teddington The Landmark Arts Centre
8 Northampton The Deco Theatre
9 & 10 Henley-on-Thames Crooked Billet
12 Swansea Elysium Gallery
13 Pentyrch (nr Cardiff) Acapela Studios
14 Reading Rising Sun Arts Centre
15 Bath Mission Theatre
18 Farncombe St John's Church
19 Eastleigh The Concorde Club
20 Ryde I.O.W. Retro Staycations / Hazel Grove Farm
21 Carshalton CryerArts
22 London Bloomsbury Theatre
July
15 Belfast Accidental Theatre
16 Dublin Arthur's Pub
23 Brighton Brighton Unitarian Church
24 Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre
25 East Hagbourne Fleur de Lys
27 Liverpool Royal Philharmonic
28 Nottingham The Running Horse
29 Cirencester Sundial Theatre
30 Thame SongFest
31 Stourbridge Katies Secret Garden
August
4 Dundee The Little Theatre
5 Glasgow Oran Mor
6 Hawick Hawick RFC
7 Stirling MacRoberts Arts Centre
13 Aberdeen Aberdeen Arts Centre
17 thru 21 Edinburgh Fringe St Andrew's & St George's West
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