Dan Zanes Comes to The Ware Center Today

Grammy award winner Dan Zanes will present "Gusto Hour" today, October 31, 11 am, at the Ware Center located at 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster. From thrift shop basements to Carnegie hall, from Brooklyn to Bahrain and beyond, Zanes has been introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there. Referred to as "the family-music genre's most outspoken and eloquent advocate" by Time Magazine, his widely-acclaimed music has been featured on Sesame Street, Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon, HBO Family, and Sprout. He occupies a truly unique place in American music where sea shanties, English music hall, North American and West Indian folk music, party songs, the spirit of early rock-and-roll, and soulful originals collide.

Starting one hour before his sensory-friendly performance, at 10 a.m., children are welcome to participate in free, creative, hands-on activities. Kids are also encouraged to come dressed in costume for safe, family-oriented trick or treating fun in the lobby of the Ware Center.

Zanes was a member of the Del Fuegos from the beginning to the end of the eighties and with them made The Longest Day (1984), Boston, Mass (1985), Stand Up (1987), Smoking in the Fields (1989), and the hit single, "Don't Run Wild." In 1994, he released a solo CD, Cool Down Time, shortly after which he moved to Brooklyn, New York with his family, where he then released the kids' album Rocket Ship Beach (2000). It became an immediate hit with families around America as well as with The New York Times Magazine, which said, "Zanes' kids music works because it is not kids music; it's just music-music that's unsanitized, unpasteurized, that's organic even."

Tickets are $10 adults and $5 children (age 10 and under), reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online by visiting ArtsMU.com or by calling 717-871-7600. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Ticket Office located in the Student Memorial Center on Millersville's campus, or the Ware Center, located at 42 N. Prince Street, in Lancaster. Doors open one hour before each show for ticket sales, subject to availability.

The Millersville University Visual and Performing Arts Season is made possible by support from Season Platinum Partner Rodgers & Associates and Gold Season Sponsors Aussie and the Fox and Hagelgans & Veronis, and Silver Season Sponsors Clipper Magazine, The Hotel Lancaster, 12:34 MicroTechnologies, and Weber Advertising. First Friday Music Stage is sponsored by Fine Living Lancaster. This season's Luminary Donors include Ann Barshinger, John & Susan Garofola, Mary Burton & Laurent Horne, Linda Holman Marcks, William McIlwaine, Peggy Neff, Mary Kearns & Jon Walker, and Paul & Judy Ware.

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