“Well, it’s up to you,” Dan Zanes explained to the crowd who packed the dance floor into front of the stage at The Egg on Saturday afternoon. “We can have a concert, or we could have a wild party. A foot-stomping, sing-along kind of party.”
The crowd – most members were under three feet tall – roared back their answer. Zanes just smiled and launched into the rousing “The Fine Friends Are Here,” which immediately set to crowd to dancing. OK, well, maybe not exactly “dancing,” as Arthur Murray would know it. More like jumping around in wild abandon. Let’s call it a matinee mosh-pit for the mini-set.
Zanes has been doing the kids-music thing for more than a decade now, and he’s got it down cold. He and his band – drummer Colin Brooks, stand-up bassist Saskia Sunshine Lane, guitarist-vocalist Sonia de los Santos and violinist-trumpeter Elena Moon Park – know they’ve got to keep it interesting and fast-paced.
“Yeah, it was either ‘American Pie’ or Cat Stevens’ ‘Teaser and the Firecat.’ It was one of those two. I really liked both of those records.
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