MP3 DOWNLOADS: Dan Zanes - Family Dance

Dan Zanes: Family Dance CD

What is family dance? Hello lovers of trains, guitars, ferris wheels, thrift shops, fiddle tunes, rhyming songs, days at the beach, human beatboxers, animal sounds, drum sounds, drum sets, sing-alongs, ackee, and everything else that might go into a rollicking dance party.

All around the kitchen cock-a-doodle-doodle-do. It's a crazy sound that echoes through the neighborhood as we waltz across a dusty parlor floor, walk the dog through the bedroom, do the bump out in the yard, the swim up on the stoop, and the mashed potato out in the autumn leaves. It's a throw down at the hoe down. We're insisting on some twisting. There's a sidewalk jamboree, walk and wobble your knees. Skip, flip, slip and slide, reach and wave the clouds goodbye.

We dance because it's a chance. A chance to be a tiptoeing wombat, a howling thunderstorm, a link in the chain, a splinter of winter sunlight, a swooping airplane, or a laughing palm tree, and we can do it together. Anywhere, anyhow. there's a dance party whenever we say so. Well, how about now?

Full-album download coming soon