By: Alkelda,
on 6/19/2008
This is a pretty good interview with Dan Zanes on PlumTV, intersperced with recent concert footage: You'll note the part in the Dan Zanes interview where DZ recommends you don't invite a stranger into your house to perform for your kids' birthdays, but have friends work on three songs and perform them at the party as a birthday present. In general, that's good advice. Specifically, though,
By: Alkelda,
on 4/26/2008
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 the Elephants: "Circus came to town and to the circus I went Didn't have a ticket didn't have a cent, Circus man said, "To see the show without a cent, You gotta carry water for the elephants." Of DZAF, Colin Brooks, the drummer, was the only original member on
By: Alkelda,
on 4/25/2008
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 other children as it was to listen to the music taking place on-stage. In honor of the concert, this Song of the Week is an original composition by Dan Zanes called "Hey Little Red Bird." The song is in the key of F, and silly man, Zanes has the chords actually
By: Kirsty,
on 10/18/2007
By Kirsty OUP-UK
All of us here at OUP-UK were saddened to hear of Ned Sherrin’s death on October 1, from throat cancer, at the age of 76. He was familiar to virtually everyone in the country as the presenter of the Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, but during his many years in showbusiness he was also a theatre director, film producer, restaurant critic, and brought us the early 1960s revolutionary satirical television series That Was The Week That Was.
Ned was also a writer and, among his many publications, he compiled three editions of The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (first published in 1995, with the most recent paperback being published in the UK last month), as well as two editions of I Wish I’d Said That.
Everyone at OUP sends their condolences and best wishes to Ned’s friends and family. (more…)
Those are exactly the qualifiers I put in your mix notes! But you're right. So right about the need to stop. Finally. Whew. Thanks to people like Ms. Mitchell and such.
Jules: Ha ha! I've put them in my notes, too. But truly, I was not directing my comments at you, but in response to all the interviews with musicians these days in which the reviewers reassure the potential listeners that the music won't drive them crazy. Eric Herman has a good point about the idea that children' music is stuff that the grownups must also like:http://cooltunesforkids.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-rules-for-good-kids-music.html
I'm still not going to play Raffi for Lucia! But I get his point anyway.
Aw - I like Raffi. And he has a song with your name in it.
Hey I just finished a book that I only realized in the middle was written by one of your commentors - Robin Brande. Really good book. The LSG is reading it now.
LSM: I actually got that book with the song used because of my name! I feel the way about Raffi the way I feel about Bob Dylan: good songs, but I can't really deal with his voice.
This is one of the many reasons I love your blog. I've been introduced (or reintroduced) to so many musicians that are just simply good musicians that everyone in the family can enjoy.
I am (at this very moment) listening to my daughter sing "It's Only Little Charlie Just Off the Pickle Boat" while playing with her stuffed animals, courtesy of one of the Ella Jenkins CDs.