Dan Zanes

Our tribute poster to Dan Zanes. We love that he is all about including people and his music makes us all happy. If you don't know of him, we hope you'll get to know him. From his bio on his website : "Here are two things you should know right off about Dan Zanes, two things that set him apart from the huge and festive field of people who have in the past few years begun making music for families and people of all ages in a way that is, frankly, changing the face of America, or the sound of it, at least. First, he is making homemade family music and encouraging similar behaviors in friends and neighbors. Second, he is the guy who is always interested in singing along with people, people everywhere. Which brings us to his mission, if you can call it a mission: Zanes is introducing his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and then showing everybody not just that they, yes, can play together but that they can also feel pretty good while doing so. In this sense, Zanes is a twenty-first century version of the guy who in the old days used to conduct the town band from the gazebo, though in lieu of a gazebo he's playing places like Carnegie Hall and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, where no matter how you say it good music is good. He is a ringmaster, introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there, and still are— it's just that people forgot about them. " We think of this line often from his song "Hello" off the album "Rocket Ship Beach" Silkscreen Printed in Magenta & Yellow Ink on White Paper 12 1/2 x 19 inches, Edition of 120, Five artist's proofs.