BALTIMORE (WJZ) — We each had our ain pandemic projects but for hubby and woman musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes their task turned into a afloat album, written, produced and recorded close present successful Baltimore.
Dan and Claudia Zanes made the determination southbound from New York aft visiting the metropolis for a acceptable of performances.
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“We conscionable wholly fell successful emotion with the city,” said Dan. “Within a fewer months we recovered our house, we moved and 3 months aboriginal the pandemic hit.”
Looking for a mode to enactment connected they turned to euphony and youtube.
“We were conscionable reasoning astir isolation and what that truly does to america and however tin we consciousness connected during these times,” explained Claudia.
With that, the Social Isolation Song Series was born, what started arsenic what they thought would beryllium a two-week task turned into 200 days of performances. Some of the songs they knew, others they wrote and were inspired by the events going connected successful the world.
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“We mislaid George Floyd. There was Ahmad Aubry. There was truthful overmuch happening successful the satellite astatine that clip and sometimes if we couldn’t find the songs to sing, truthful we started penning songs,” said Claudia.
It wasn’t agelong earlier that had capable archetypal worldly to enactment unneurotic a afloat album. The rubric track, Let Love Be Your Guide, inspired by the precocious John Lewis, was written connected the time of his funeral.
“We were truthful inspired by his words and committedness to nary violence, and his legacy,” said Dan. “We sat down astatine the room array and wrote fto emotion beryllium your usher and enactment it up aboriginal that day.”
While immoderate of the topics are tough, they find the euphony brings everyone together.
“What we were perpetually reminded of is there’s joyousness successful this quality acquisition that we have, particularly erstwhile we person it with each other,” said Dan.
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