About the DVD 'De nacht van de Maisfrou':

Meanwhile it's already more than three years ago that we for the first time got acquainted with Nynke Laverman; a young Frisian musician who surprised us with the birth of the “Frisian fado”. Traditional Portuguese fado music, provided with Frisian lyrics and surprisingly wonderfully instrumented with a leading part for the cello. Laverman’s début Sielesâlt already was wondrously beautiful, but the successor De Maisfrou that appeared last year was if possible even more beautiful. A splendid and versatile record on which Nynke Laverman not only once more took the fado to Friesland, but on which she also succeeded in working influences out of the Spanish, Mexican and South American music into it. De Nacht Van De Maisfrou reports on the tour that followed on the release of De Maisfrou and shows that on stage Nynke Laverman is even a lot better than on the record. De Nacht Van de Maisfrou brims over with passion and temper and adds something to the records of Nynke Laverman that have been released so far. You can choose between a CD and a DVD. Because the passion not only bursts out of the speakers, but also splashes from the screen and because moreover the DVD contains a very nice documentary, we prefer the DVD, but without a doubt the CD is wonderful too!

Erwin Zijleman
Velvet Music.nl, 17th of November 2007

About the theatre-show 'De Maisfrou':

When the last notes have sounded the audience massively gets up from their pillows to give a deafening standing ovation for minutes. What a singer. What a band. Breathtaking.

Paul Lips
Haarlems Dagblad, 8th of August 2006

Here is standing a singer with a beautiful voice, with willpower ánd a program that exceeds Sielesâlt. Shameless with her legs wide-open she expresses her anger about a broken heart and immediately after that she cries out her loneliness in a quiet ballad. She is flirting zestful with the samba, she lets the unmighty heart speak in the tango, puts her despair in a flamenco and whispers of longing in the fado. The strongest point perhaps is that she not a moment tries to be different than a Frisian singer who tastes of life in total. In that way she will never get lost in a dictated idiom. Nynke Laverman might not be a phenomenon yet, she will become one! Surely when she keeps letting these three musicians accompany her, who give her exactly enough counterbalance.

Dick Laning
De Stentor, the 31st of October 2005

(...) she sings, with a marvellous voice that varies of warm to tender, of lonely to hard and loud. But that never is cold or raw. Together with the musicians she creates spheres of sizzling deserts with a sunset until the party-swet in the night.

Coromandel Brombacher
Sp!ts, the 21st of November 2005

FRISIAN PASSION OF NYNKE LAVERMAN

(...) with a paean on the orgasm (De Lytse Dea), she lits the fire that the show was missing until then. The exciting Por Mi Pasión - 'the bed has got a hundred corners today and your hand is a vulcano' - the despair in Kear and Swarte Ierde and the melancholy in Syn Brief fire the passion even further. In De Maisfrou Laverman shows that she is a beautiful and passionate singer.

Alexander Nijeboer
De Volkskrant, the 21st of November 2005

THE NETHERLANDS TOO SMALL FOR NYNKE LAVERMAN

(...) With her fabulous singing the Frisian Fado Phenomenon keeps 't Voorhuys one hour long completely silent. It doesn't matter if you can understand her or not; this music speaks to the heart.

Amazing but still a fact: Nynke Laverman is only 25 years old. One wouldn't say that the way she stands on the stage. Full of self-confidence she opens the show. She lives her songs; her broken heart and longing is almost tangible.

(...) Nynke uses all the aspects of her voice and she does it very easily. From high to low, dark to light, loud to soft: it sounds wonderful. She leaves the audience breathless. In Friesland they only can be 'grutsk' (proud) of such a singer, because even the Netherlands are too small for her.

Engelien van der Molen-Schotanus
De Noordoostpolder, the 1st of November 2005

Nynke Laverman just does it. She sings fado's yes, in Frisian. And she changes, tastes the life-experience as the salt tears of love but also the desire and new hope. That she becomes just as wise as de maize-woman from Mexico.

De arrangements are playful and subtle and very surprising in the musical and theatrical passages, like for example between the lively song 'Praat fan de wyn' and the intense 'Leafdesbang'.

Nynke Laverman takes you with her clear voice inevitable with her in commemoration, longing and hope, while the musicians accompany her perfectly.

(...) at the end I felt the presence of the 'maize-woman'. In a maize-yellow, warm southern sphere she rose in the landscape and she got figure in one's mind by a beautiful melody, subtlely bedded in the great percussion-art of Sytze Pruiksma. That makes you want more.

Ingrid Metz
De Leeuwarder Courant, the 28th of October 2005

(...) in Sytze Pruiksma she has a percussionist backing her who makes a little jewel of musicality of every song.

Hessel Fluitman
Het Friesch Dagblad, the 28th of October 2005