Beware The Ides Of March! Beloved singer-songwriter Dean Friedman, from Paramus in Bergen County, will play the legendary Stanhope House, built in 1794, in Sussex County. He’s touring in support of his new More Words & Music compilation, a two-disc 30-track compendium that’s a companion volume to his previously-released Words & Music best-of. No band this time around as he will alternate between piano and guitar on his songs (which have been covered by Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Ariel Pink, The Tone Rangers and The Blenders). And, yeah, he’s almost forced to do “Ariel,” his timeless 1977 classic about a high Jewish girl he met at the mall. And, yes, he’s so much more.
