Dan Zanes says there are advantages to performing music for children and families. "We can have a full-throttle dance party before lunchtime, and to me that's a step up from playing adult concerts," ...

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Dan Zanes is here for your children. While he's at it, he's happy to convert you, too, like some purple-clad pied piper carrying a ukulele instead of a flute. His mission? Well, it sounds a little ...

Smithsonian Folkways has released Pieces of Home by renowned musicians Dan + Claudia Zanes. For almost 25 years Dan Zanes has been known as a pioneer and a leader in family music, bringing people of ...

(AP) Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell had only been playing for about 10 minutes when the stage was invaded. The first to appear was a stuffed lamb. Then a cuddly dinosaur. Then all hell broke loose ...

Dan Zanes, the Grammy-award-winning, folksy kindie rock star, will return to the N.C. Museum of Art this summer. Zanes and and his band will play selections from their latest album, 76 Trombones, ...

Former Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes ditched his rock 'n' roll fantasy in the late 1990s and invested his musical energies and passions in children's music. The rock world's loss was a big coup for ...

A Feb. 11 Style article about Dan Zanes, a veteran rock musician who has become known for children's music, incorrectly attributed a quotation to Zanes. It was Jake Flack of the Rhodes Tavern ...

Former lead singer of the indie-rock band the Del Fuegos, Dan Zanes. When he became a father he realized he couldn stomach the music for kids so started writing his own. He also formed the Rocket Ship ...

After a seven-year absence, Grammy Award-winning family musician Dan Zanes is returning to Long Island May 27 — and this time, he’s bringing his wife, Claudia, a Haitian American jazz singer, along to ...