Andy Friedman

Andy Friedman began in the wonderful world of artwork and illustration, and later on moved into music. Created in Brooklyn, he graduated from your Rhode Island College of Design having a B.F.A. in painting. He began function in the mailroom of THE BRAND NEW Yorker in August 1998 and started slipping his personal cartoons in among the submissions; ultimately, the magazine began buying them, plus they had been published beneath the pseudonym Larry Hat. Friedman developed a career like a freelance illustrator. In the springtime of 2002, he remaining THE BRAND NEW Yorker and started performing on-stage using a present that mixed his spoken phrase poetry and his artwork shown by a glide projector. Meanwhile, he previously begun carrying out illustrations for albums by such performers as Debbie Friedman, Natalia Zuckerman, Devon Sproule, and Paul Curreri. He documented his very own debut record, Live on the Bowery Poetry Membership, in July 2005, and it had been released by Town Salvage on Feb 15, 2006. Taking on your guitar and performing, he then documented his first studio room album, Taken Guy, released on June 4, 2007. Weary Stuff implemented on January 27, 2009.