(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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, any parent this side of the moon who has welcomed a dimpled, diaper-clad cutie to the world since the dawn of the millenium has heard of Dan Zanes, a wild and ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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, ...