KINDIE LAND: Winners Announced & Recommended Weekend Shows

Family friendly live music can be fun for all ages...even the big kids (AKA:   adults).  Got little folk, rock tots, banger babies or punk kin?   ChiIL Mama's got the shows for YOU!   Check back early and often.   We have the scoop on the hottest tot rock spots and loads of free tickets for our readers including 4 tickets to ALL Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids, ALL Wilmette Theatre Kids' Series Shows and many Schubas Family Series Shows.

This weekend 2/16-17:

Beat Kitchen's got a big bonanza with our first back to back Sat AND Sun Concerts for Kids.   Our usual weekly Sundays at noon will continue, but we're adding in more windy kindie shows on select Saturdays at 3:30.   So, 21+ parents can suck down some of THE best bloody marys in Chi-town or kick back with a beer, and dance with your offspring.   Juice & soda are available for the under agers and drivers.  Shows are geared toward birth-10 year olds with parents.   Under 1 year olds are FREE.   All ages are welcome and adults & kids tickets are just $6 or FREE if you win 'em from me!   We pick new winners weekly.


Gracie Lou Review
Saturday at 3:30
Congrats Claudia-you have a free 4 pack of tickets!

Introducing Saturday Shows!! Gracie Lou Revue Saturday, Feb 16, 3:30
Chic-A-Go-Go described Gracie Lou as "Chicago's coolest new performer." Check the Gracie Lou Revue out at their Chic-A-Go-Go show last year. They are bluesy, jazzy, crazy kazooy, with a killer voice. We promise a great show. Join us for our first of many Saturday shows, new to the Concerts for Kids series. Concert begins at 3:30. Buy tickets here. Beat Kitchen is located at 2100 W. Belmont.

To keep up to date with Concerts for Kids, become our Facebook friend at  www.facebook.com/kidsshowschicago.

Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies
Sunday at noon

Congrats -Lincoln W.--you're our free 4 pack ticket winner!

Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies Sunday, Feb 17, noon
Perennial favorite Mr Singer & The Sharp Cookies return to Beat Kitchen this Sunday. Sing along, hop along and have a fantastic time. Beat Kitchen serves delicious pizza, brunch, burgers and Bloody Marys. Come make an afternoon of it! Buy tickets here. Beat Kitchen is located at 2100 W. Belmont.

To keep up to date with Concerts for Kids, become our Facebook friend at  www.facebook.com/kidsshowschicago.

Save the Dates...and enter to win 4 free tickets every week from ChiILMama.com (winners announced every Fri/ enter through Thurs midnight).
Sunday noon shows continue. Plus - new Saturday 3:30 shows!
Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, $6/person Feb 16: Gracie Lou Revue Feb 17: Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies Feb 24: Apples, Peaches, Lemonade March 2: Human-Tim + Robot-Tim March 3: The Wannabees March 10: Jeanie B! and the Jelly Beans March 16: Sarah Jayne Lane March 17: Mindy Hester & The Time Outs April 7: Future Hits

To keep up to date with Concerts for Kids, become our Facebook friend at  www.facebook.com/kidsshowschicago.

Little Miss Ann at Wilmette Theatre 10am on Saturday
Congrats -Lisa V.--you've won our free 4 pack of tickets!

Click here for more details on all of the above shows.

Escape From Planet Earth 
Movie-Goers Goody Bag Winner ($25 gift card/popcorn/candy):   Big congrats to Laura J who won out of 515 entries!!

Click here for our Escape From Planet Earth movie review and full details on the giveaway.   The movie opens TODAY.

We post winners first name/last initial here and notify them by e-mail.   If your name seems to match up, check your in box & filters.   We never sell, spam or share your info.

LAST CALL: 4 Great Giveaways Ending THIS Thursday Midnight

ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama this weekend with a nationwide Movie-Goers Goody Bag ($25 movie gift card/popcorn/candy) to celebrate Friday's opening of Escape From Planet Earth & FREE tickets to THREE Chi-town Kindie music concerts.  Enter like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often.   Click the links below to enter any or all four!

Open to anyone in the USA:

*Sneak Peek--Escape From Planet Earth Opening 2/15 #review #giveaway

Chicago Area Tickets (live family friendly concerts):

*KINDIE LAND: Win A Family 4 Pack of Tickets To Little Miss Ann at Wilmette Theatre (also enter for 4 Super Stolie tickets for next month)

*KINDIE LAND FREE TICKETS: All February Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids

Beat Kitchen's Kid's Shows are rockin' this weekend with TWO shows and we have 4 free tickets for one lucky reader.   LOW ENTRIES!!!!   You've got a great shot at winning.   Check her tunes out here.

Feb 16: Gracie Lou Revue

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Gracie Lou Revue is relatively new, so we haven't had a chance to catch them for a video interview or live show footage.  We were super stoked, though, to find out Gracie Lou was the student of one of my best friends.   And I have it on good authority that she's one amazing girl with talent to spare.   Come on out to the show and you can say you saw them back when....

Feb 17: Mr. Singer & The Sharp 

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Mr Singer's one of our windy kindie favs.   Check out our 

past, original photo and video filled Mr. Singer coverage by 

clicking here.

Sneak Peek--Escape From Planet Earth Opening 2/15 #review #giveaway

Family movie night can be a great escape.   And we just saw one that's out of this world!    With major name power on the voices, a witty script, and sweet visuals, Escape from Planet Earth is just the ticket to beat the winter blahs and have some family fun.

ChiIL Mama caught a sneak peek at Escape from Planet Earth, the Weinstein Company's latest animated 3D feature, opening nationwide on February 15th.  I took a set of reviewers with me who are 9, 10 & 11 respectively and included boys and girls.   They all thought the movie was hilarious and they had a blast!   It's action packed, has character and characters, and has a great overall message.

It's refreshing when the smart and peaceful prevail over megalomaniacs with revenge fantasies.  I though the social media quips, and creative black and white retro clips were fresh and fun.  And the insinuation that search engines, social networks, cell phones, and more were alien technology we stole, is an amusing premise.

We love that the stay at home mom IS a rocket scientist, and kicks some serious booty, the nerd has the girl, and kids are not underestimated.   Sometimes even superheroes need to be team players.   Brains can trump arms.   And the scrawny can rescue the brawny.  Check it out yourself.

ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama--WIN a rockin' Movie-Goers goodie bag

which includes popcorn, candy and a $25 gift card for our winner to use towards a movie night out at Escape from Planet Earth!  

Goody bag sweet treats

Thanks to The Weinstein Co, for providing this sweet giveaway to our readers and for comping us press tickets to review an advanced screening.

Click Rafflecopter below to enter to win:

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Escape From Planet Earth

The 3D animated family comedy catapults moviegoers to planet Baab where admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population.  A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA.  When BASA’s no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet, Scorch rejects Gary’s warnings and bounds off for yet another exciting mission.  But when Scorch finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (William Shatner) it’s up to scrawny, risk-averse Gary to do the real rescuing.  As the interplanetary stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and their adventure-hungry son Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit).

To learn more, please visit Escape Earth Movie here for free games, video clips, photos and more.

To elevate the viewing experience, you can also download the free “Escape From Planet Earth” Movie App that is available for iOS and for Android here.

Valentine Fun:

You can print these free downloadable valentines from your home computer.  ChiIL Mama's stoked to premiere these funny valentines.

Educational Fun:

Click here for spacey fun facts that'll have your interplanetary IQ soaring

  

Disclosure:   This is a sponsored post.   Big thanks to The Weinstein Co. for providing us with review tickets for our family and the giveaway items mentioned above!