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," ...

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 ...

While several of his albums have won Parents Choice Awards, Dan Zanes will readily admit that the music he's making these days isn't just for youngsters. "I never decided to make 'children's music,'" ...

(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 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 ...

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 ...

Dan Zanes, the Grammy-winning musician and one of the country's top family entertainers, returns to the Triangle this weekend for an outdoor concert at the N.C. Museum of Art. Dan Zanes, the ...

[Note from Dan Gibson: Stefan Shepherd has a day job like most of us, but on the side, he just happens to be an amateur expert in children’s music, with news outlets like NPR, the Wall Street Journal, ...

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 ...