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Family Dance Artist: Dan Zanes
Dan Zanes effortlessly combines folk and world music influences to create a sound that's all his own. Family Dance was Dan Zanes' follow up to the critically acclaimed Rocket Ship Beach. Fortunately, Dan didn't suffer from the sophomore slump. Family Dance includes a healthy dose of reinterpreted classics and a variety of musical styles. Highlights include Jump Up, Rock Island Line and All Around the Kitchen. Includes celebrity appearances by Rosanne Cash and Sandra Bernhard. Details, details - Artist: Dan Zanes - Ages: 2 - 4 years - Genre: Folk - Original Release Date: November 8, 2001 - Running Time: 44:32Click to listen to a free Dan Zanes PodcastTrack Listing1. Jump Up Listen 2. Rock Island Line with the Rocket Ship Revue Listen 3. Malti With Barbara Brousal4. The Hokey Pokey with Father Goose a.k.a. Rankin' Don and the Dandelion Chorus5. Water For the Elephants with Donald Saaf6. Linstead Market with the Sandy Girls7. Fooba Wooba John with Rosanne Cash8. Wonder Wheel with the Rocket Ship Revue Listen 9. Yo-Yo Sweet Yo-Yo with the Rubi Theatre Co.10. All Around the Kitchen with Loudon Wainwright III11. In the Evening with the Rocket Ship Revue and the Dandelion Chorus12. Flowers Of Edinburgh13. Thrift Shop with Sandra Bernhard14. Skip To My Lou with Father Goose a.k.a Rankin' Don15. The Good Night Waltz with Donald Saaf and Lyris HungShipping info - Free Shipping
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Customer Reviews for Family Dance Artist: Dan Zanes
Family Dance: Dan Zanes
Date - June 4, 2008
"Family Dance is billed as being by "Dan Zanes and Friends." By inserting the "and Friends" part in there, the listener gets the impression that he or she, too, could gather their own friends round the piano in the living room, drag in a small amp and guitar, and record a really hip version of, say, "Skip To My Lou."
That listener, of course, would be completely and utterly wrong.
The reason they would be wrong is that Dan Zanes has a whole bunch of really talented friends who can actually sing and play their instruments. On Family Dance, for example, Rosanne Cash turns in a nice duet with Zanes on the obscure (for me) kids' song "Fooba Wooba John," Loudon Wainright III helps in a raucous version of "All Around the Kitchen," and Sandra Bernhard "sings" (sort of) on a Dan Zanes original, "Thrift Shop." The less famous of Zanes' friends are no less talented -- Barbara Brousal sings one of her songs, "Malti," while Rankin' Don puts some life into those most tired of kids' songs "The Hokey Pokey" and, yes, "Skip To My Lou."
There's not much difference between this album and, say, Zanes' later House Party. The later album is perhaps ever so slightly more diverse (there's not much bluegrass in Family Dance), but however you felt about House Party, you'll likely feel the same way about Family Dance. It draws from the same well of kids' classics, American songbook classics, some foreign nuggets, and a few solid Zanes originals.
The CD is appropriate for, well, just about anybody. Kids age 3 and older might appreciate it more, but more than any other kids' artist out there right now, Zanes is a practitioner of "family music," meant for the whole family. Definitely recommended.
(And Zanes would definitely recommend that you get your family and friends together to sing and play music -- it's one of his attitudes that I find most refreshing. But hold off pressing that CD, OK?)"
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Review 2 for Family Dance Artist: Dan Zanes
My Kid's Favorite
Date - April 12, 2008
"This one is well-played in our house! It is definitely an enduring favorite (particularly the first two tracks "Jump Up" and "Rock Island Line") . Definitely a good choice for families who want to enjoy their kid's music as much as their kids!"
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Review 3 for Family Dance Artist: Dan Zanes
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Would you recommend? Yes
jadybug
Location - California
Number of Kids - 1
Age of youngest child - 2-4
Age - 22-29
excellent kid music
Date - April 10, 2008
"If your sick of everyday kids music blaring from your cd player these songs are for you. Dan Zanes is colorful & creative. My two year old daughter highly recomends this one. Kick off your shoes and dance along!"
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