I'm happy to be making my performing debut in 2012 (after my hand injury) with Lucia. It should be an amazing show. She is a super soulful and passionate singer. Here's the blurb from the Lincoln Center website:

Lucia Pulido @ David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
19|Jan|12 | 8:30 pm
New York

Lucia Pulido is a Colombian singer with one of the richest voices on the international Latin American musical scene today. She has an experimental style marked by a distinct vocal sophistication, and has participated in various projects, ranging from traditional Colombian music to jazz and world music. Traditional genres such as cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos from the Colombian Eastern Plains are the point of departure for her musical creativity. Lucia's vocal sophistication is enhanced in genres such as herding songs (cantos de vaqueria), funeral laments (alabaos) and harvest chants (cantos de zafra), which give the singer the liberty to explore her voice fully.

For this special celebration and a commemoration of 30 years of creation Lucia Pulido will perform music from her old and new repertoire accompanied by some of the greatest musicians she has played with in NY since moving here in 1994.

Listen to our show from 92YTribeca last Teusday night.

Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times

"His partners, as on the album, were Doug Wamble on acoustic guitar, Trevor Dunn on bass and Mike Sarin on drums. They sounded very much like a working band and not much like any others you could name. With cello and guitar at the forefront, the sound skewed rustic-cosmopolitan, lean and springy, often sweetened with a touch of twang. [read more]" --Nate Chinen

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"Cellist Erik Friedlander brings more than just unique instrumentation to his album Bonebridge. Although the freshness of a cello, guitar, bass and drums collective hooks the ear immediately, it is Friedlander's compositional skills and his gifted band that keeps the interest going throughout. [read more]"

Erik Friedlander (Thursday) Mr. Friedlander, an ingenious cellist who makes an art of soulful rusticity, celebrates the release of "Bonebridge" (Skipstone), his fine and lilting new album, by assembling its complete cast of collaborators: the guitarist Doug Wamble, the bassist Trevor Dunn and the drummer Mike Sarin. At 9:30 p.m., Joe's Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village , (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $14. (Chinen)

Josh Jackson introduces my new cd over at NPR's First Listen where you can hear the whole cd (streaming)!

Grayson Currin interview me and gets me to admit, "It's a long-lost infatuation that I finally acted on,"

You can download the New Single:Beaufain Street

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Beaufain Street gets its name from Charleston, SC where Friedlander spent a few weeks performing last summer, and where he put the finishing touches on the music for the Bonebridge CD. The tune itself gets its inspiration further south -- a rolling, New Orlean's style groove drives this track as Friedlander and Doug Wamble exchange solos and then bring the tune to a close together with Trevor Dunn on bass and Mike Sarin on drums.