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,'" ...

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," ...

The cover of "Pieces of Home" by Dan and Claudia Zanes. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways) This album doesn’t feature Santa or elves, but it does blend cultures, genres, collaborations with other ...

[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, ...

Dan Zanes is on a mission to show everybody that they can play music together and feel “pretty good” while doing it. This Sunday, Zanes and Friends will bring to the Napa Valley Opera House what ...

NEW YORK (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 ...

Dan Zanes, former frontman of the ’80s garage-pop band the Del Fuegos, now heads the group Dan Zanes and Friends, which secured a Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children with its 2006 release ...

Discover "the gold standard in kids' music" (NPR) when Grammy Award-winning children's performer Dan Zanes and Haitian-American jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes present a fun-filled afternoon at Nassau ...

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 ...

It’s been a while since the Rialto hosted a good kiddie show. The last one I went to with my own kid was almost three years ago, when we went to the music palace in the middle of the day to see Justin ...

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 ...