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June 2, 2006
DDDB Media Alert: Dan Zanes and Brooklyn Friends
Benefit Concert for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
WHO: Dan Zanes and Brooklyn Friends
WHAT: Benefit Concert for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
WHERE: Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church
144 St. Felix Street at Hanson Place, Brooklyn (Enter on Hanson)
(Catch these trains: 2/3/4/5/B/Q to Atlantic Avenue, N/R/D to Pacific Street) [MAP]WHEN: Saturday, June 3rd. 11 AM. Doors Open at 10:15
(If coming with camera crew please come early if you need to set up)BROOKLYN, NEW YORK–– A Brooklyn bard and icon of the children’s/family music world makes a rare appearance in his home borough on June 3. In Fort Greene, Dan Zanes and Brooklyn Friends will headline a benefit concert for the community group opposing Forest City Ratner’s proposed skyscraper-city, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB). Dan Zanes and Brooklyn Friends have extolled the virtues of Kings County in song and are lending support to DDDB’s efforts in protecting and promoting the character of Brooklyn neighborhoods through responsible and respectful development.
Dan Zanes, formerly of the band the Del Fuegos, has been recording family music for almost a decade, since the birth of his daughter Anna. His handmade all-ages twenty-first century folk sound has gone from neighborhood entertainment to a national success story. There have been six CD releases with guests including Sheryl Crow, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega and Debbie Harry. His ensemble has toured the country extensively and has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, People, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly, as well as NPR. Their latest album, Catch That Train!, was released on May 16th.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.dddb.net, until Friday night, and can be purchased at the door. Tickets: $12 for children (13 and under) and seniors, $15 for adults. All ages welcome, babies in arms enter free.
Posted by lumi at June 2, 2006 1:29 PM