To my readers: I wrote this piece purely for your amusement. In no way is it meant to diminish the gravity of world events. Sometimes, when ...

Dan Zanes was on the June 17 CBS Early Show. After the commercials, you can see a little interview and listen to the band perform "Cola...

This is a pretty good interview with Dan Zanes on PlumTV , intersperced with recent concert footage: You'll note the part in the Dan Zan...

Blurry photo taken with Bede's phone as we didn't want to carry around the old clunker Dan Zanes and Friends opened with Water for t...

Dan Zanes is returning to Seattle , and once more, we're going to see him . Last year, it was as much fun watching Lucia dance with the ...

... or at least, he used to. Back when Dan Zanes was in The Del Fuegos, the band made a commercial for Miller beer. The most prophetic quote...

Today's post shall be brief, as we're all busy reading MotherReader's Carnival of Children's Literature: the Tips Edition . ...

I just got word that Dan Zanes and Rankin Don a.k.a. Father Goose are working on an album they hope to release on October 23, 2007. I'...

Dan Zanes and the Gleefuls We had front row center seats at the Dan Zanes concert yesterday, but Lucia did not sit in her seat at all. She ...

Artwork by Donald Saaf Tomorrow, Bede, Lucia and I will attend the 1 pm show of Dan Zanes and Friends . We have front row seats. Maybe we...

Dan Zanes and Father Goose Photo by REUTERS/Mike Blake "Catch That Train!" by Dan Zanes and Friends won the 2007 Grammy award for...

The new DZ Flea ukulele arrived today. After some initial protestation over the necessity of tuning the wee instrument, Lucia started to st...

Snow days and sick days have kept Lucia out of school for a week. She is too young and I am too old to enjoy time off from school. Despite t...

Happy New Year! Here is the 2007 Grammy nominees list for Best Musical Album for Children: "Baby Einstein Meet The Orchestra"-- Va...

Dan Zanes with his daughter Anna Photo by Anna Williams Pomegranate Arts Project gallery Back in October, Dan Zanes recorded a "Nodcast...

"Hey Little Red Bird" is an original song by Dan Zanes. Zanes has the song chords published in the key of F, with regular A flats...

I've been working on "Water for the Elephants," my song for Sunday's Coffee Shop Jam. Here is my version, with some diffe...

Lucia came into the bedroom early this morning, dragging the tray from her old high-chair. We had brought up the high-chair because of a rec...

Yesterday evening, I informed Bede that Dan Zanes was my new non-romantic crush. I taped on our refrigerator a small photo of Dan Zanes wea...

I'm doing some young toddler (12-24 months old) programs tomorrow and next Tuesday. It's been awhile since I've actively worked ...