GIVEAWAY: WIN a Pair of Tickets ($30 Value) to See The Grammy Award Winning Okee Dokee Brothers On Mothers Day at Chicago's Lincoln Hall

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Ready for a Rockin' Mothers Day Morning? You should be thinkin' Lincoln!

The littles are going to wake you anyway. 

You might as well hang out with 

The Grammy Award Winning Okee Dokee Brothers 

this Sunday at 11am 

at Lincoln Hall in Lincoln Park on Lincoln Ave. 

Photo by Alex Johnson.

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The Okee Dokee Brothers have long been kindie (kids' indie) favs of ours here at ChiIL Mama. I even did a video interview with them & shot live footage at their Chicago shows back in 2011 through 2013 when they were pre-famous:

Here's a fun flashback interview interspersed with live show footage. Check it out. 

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Come on out and celebrate Mothers' Day in Chicago with a rockin' live 11am show. Dance with the little reasons you're a mom to begin with! The Okee Dokee Brothers are a ton of fun live and we highly recommend their shows. 

FLASH GIVEAWAY:

Enter through midnight tonight 5/10/18

2 ticket ($30 value) giveaway from ChiIL Mama to catch The Grammy Award Winning Okee Dokee Brothers On Mothers Day at Chicago's Lincoln Hall. 11am. Winner will be e-mailed and announced here and on ChiIL Mama's social media outlets midday Friday 5/11/18.

ENTER HERE for your chance to WIN

 Lincoln Hall

THE OKEE DOKEE BROTHERS

$12.00 /$15.00 DOORS,

FREE UNDER 2 YEARS OLD/ ALL AGES 

11:00 AM 

The Okee Dokee Brothers

As childhood friends growing up in Denver Colorado, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always exploring the outdoors. Whether it was rafting down their neighborhood creek or discovering hiking trails through the Rocky Mountains, Joe and Justin were born adventurers. Now, as the GRAMMY® Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, they have put this passion for the outdoors at the heart of their Americana Folk music.

Joe and Justin record and perform family music with a goal to inspire children and their parents to get outside and get creative. They believe this can motivate kids to gain aJoe and Jusin as kids 1 greater respect for the natural world, their communities and themselves.

The four-time Parents’ Choice Award winners have garnered praise from the likes of NPR’s All Things Considered and USA Today, and have been called “two of family music’s best songwriters.” Click HERE to purchase your tickets. 

Grammy Winning Okee Dokee Brothers Interview With ChiIL Mama #originalvideo

It was our great pleasure to catch up with the Okee Dokee Brothers for a video interview.  They'd just played our concert series at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids in Chicago.  They had to cancel their last scheduled Beat Kitchen show, earlier this month, which fell on Grammy Sunday.   The boys were a bit in demand as this year's kids album winners!   That's a good excuse to miss a gig if I've ever heard one.   They've promised to reschedule and make it up to us.    

Check out their live show footage from Beat Kitchen interspersed in the interview above, and find out what other kindie favs of ours also played on their Grammy winning album.    Hint:   We just gave 4 tickets & brunch for 4 away for a show with one of them last weekend....   

KINDIE LAND: Okee Dokee Brothers Win Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children!

ChiIL Mama congratulates this year's Children's Album GRAMMY Award winner: 

Justin Lansing and Joe Mailander (plus their guest artists and producer Dean Jones) won a GRAMMY award for Best Musical Album for Children yesterday:

The Okee Dokee Brothers

Can You Canoe?

This year's family music nominees reflected the excellent range of sounds flowering in today's family music scene. Congrats to all the excellent kindie band nominees and to our friends over at Sugar Mountain PR who represent 4 of this year's children's nominees including Okee Dokee Brothers and the following:

Bill Harley

High Dive

Elizabeth MItchell and You Are My Flower

Little Seed

The Pop Ups

Radio Jungle

If you like interesting family music, try these 2013 releases: It's Not Fair to Me by Bill Harley and Keith Munslow  ~ witty songs about foibles and friendship from two acclaimed performers. Cat Doorman Songbook ~ original songs and colorful illustrations by Julianna Bright. Guest stars include indie music royalty from Portland, OR. Get Moving with Ella Jenkins - Activity songs from "The First Lady of Children's Music," and one of the original artists on the Smithsonian Folkways label.  (*We'll be giving away 2 of these CD to our lucky readers.  Ella is truly a treasure.) KidQuake! by The Not-Its! Seattle's kindie rock stars take cause a commotion with this new release and concert tour, celebrating the power of kids.

Check back with ChiIL Mama like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often.  Later this week we'll have our original video interview with the Grammy winning Okee Dokee Brothers, original live concert footage of the boys in action at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids, stills, and a rockin' multi CD giveaway!