Dan Zanes sings out against the Atlantic Yards development project. He is headlining an anti-project next month (details to come). "My opposition is about saving the soul of Brooklyn," he told Gersh Kuntzman at the Brooklyn Papers. "Everything I do is about community—in my case the spirit that comes from making music. That’s what Brooklyn means right now."

SUMMER WIND BY DAN ZANES

Take a left on Kane Street
Another one on Henry
Take a look around us
Up the hill and down again
Hand in hand
We’ll be feeling grand
When we wander in the summer wind

I’ll take you to the river
Maybe down to Red Hook
Eat a few tamales
Over by the soccer games
Basketballs are flyng
over by the schoolyard
I hear the breeze
Call your name

High and low
People tht we know
They say "Hey there"
and "How’ve you been?"
Good, good, good
And do you think you would
Like to wander in the summer wind
We can take the F train
Right up on Ninth Street
Walk to the Park
To where the steel drums play
Dance around in circles
With anyone that we meet
All this could happen
on a summer Saturday

Pix of Dan Zanes and a young fan by EMWI