This Holiday Sing Along with Grammy Award® winner Dan Zanes and his musical wife, Claudia Zanes, (family to greenarrowradio), is a multicultural all-ages wintertime celebration based on the Christmas gatherings Dan experienced as a child growing up in New Hampshire, in which friends and neighbors came together to sing carols around the piano. This event is/was an ideal Sensory Friendly performance.
But it’s the 21st century!
And now the singers are from a variety of traditions and the songs are from here and there, near and far—Christmas and Hanukah classics in English, Hebrew, and Ladino; as well as holiday songs from Korea, Tunisia, Puerto Rico, Wales, and Haiti. Instead of a piano there are the sounds of guitar, mandolin, harmonica, flute, trombone, tambourine, melodica, ukulele, and anything else that happens to make it in the door. Songbooks are distributed and the audience becomes a part of the festivities. I have to thank the Kennedy Center for having another great thing for me (and you) to be a part of wherever we are around the globe – innovation means INclusion.
The Dan + Claudia Zanes Holiday Sing Along offers a chance for people to experience some of the best of life’s possibilities… while singing with wild abandon! Watch the entire performance here.
Enjoy!!
