Listen "203: Dan and Claudia Zanes"
Episode Synopsis
Family musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes had just moved to Baltimore from Brooklyn when Covid came on. In an effort to be useful, creative, and connected, they decided to record a video of a new song every day until it was over. They called it their "Social Isolation Song Series." They imagined it would continue for a month or two. Two hundred musical days later we wrapped it up. As they tell it, something happened during that experience. Our thoughts about music became bigger and broader. We started to realize more clearly what folk singers have always known: songs are here to inspire and uplift but they're also here to tell the stories and reflect the times." We spoke recently about their new record, and their new life in Baltimore, about their individual journeys that led them to this moment, about what they see as their responsibility as folk singers, artists and advocates, what they describe as the "racial pandemic in America", how to practice productive antiracism, coming from "two different worlds", the work-life balance in a creative partnership, and what artisanal soaps have to do with any of it. www.third-story.com www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast https://www.danandclaudia.com/
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