Showing posts with label kindie CDs. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Win 10 Family Friendly Freebies To ChiIL Out With This Summer #Giveaways



ChiIL Out with ChiIL Mama This Summer

 Here are all our rockin' current giveaways in one easy place.   Enter any or ALL.  Good luck!

  Enter here for your chance to win loads of books, DVDs/Blu-Ray, CDs, games, toys and more (open to anyone 18+ in the USA) and a ton of sweet Chicago theatre and family concert tickets.

We love summer time and want to share our ChiIL Picks List for rockin' kindie music, movies, eco-friendly finds, events and more with you, so 2013 can be the best summer vacation EVER.   We're giving away great fam friendly freebies all summer long!!  

Disclaimer:   Thanks to all the kindie musicians, theatres, authors, publishers, Warner Brothers and American Girl for providing us with giveaway prizes and review copies.   All opinions are our own. Check back with us like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often, for loads of original content including video band interviews with kindie (kids' indie) favs, reviews, photo filled features, free downloads, new releases, and more great giveaways.

Here's the scoop:

  Click the name of the giveaways below to enter & see our full feature on each.

  #1/#2.  2 ChiIL Picks Book Bonanzas:



*Lost in Suburbia : A Momoir, by Tracy Beckerman (5 paperbacks available/$15 value each) Now extended through midnight 7/30. 
*The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall (5 hardbacks available/  $26.95 value each).  Enter through midnight 7/30. 

  Watch for loads of our original circus content throughout the month of our giveaway.  We have video interviews with Cirque Du Soleil performers featured in the book, live show clips we've filmed at CircEsteem Shows, and loads of stills from international touring circuses including Cirque Shanghai, performing on Navy Pier all summer in Chicago, and more!
#3/#4.   ChiIL Picks Blu-Ray & DVD Movies


*Jack the Giant Slayer Blu-Ray/DVD combo! Enter through midnight 7/9($44.95 value)



*Saige Paints the Sky (American Girl) Blu-Ray/DVD combo!  Enter through midnight 7/30. ($26.99 value)

 #5/#6/#7.    Rockin' 20 Kindie CD Extravaganza 

 We're giving away sets of awesome brand new releases along with 2012 & 13 favs of ours.   All entries are open through midnight 7/30.   Winners will be announced on Winning Wednesday, July 31st! It's road trip season ya know.   And time to ChiIL out and kick back with some of the best kindie artists around.   Throughout the month we'll be bringing you our original reviews and full info on each of the 20 CDs, along with original kindie band interviews, live show footage and more.   Enter to win any or all of these sets.   All of these CDs make it onto

  ChiIL Mama's ChiIL Picks List.

  *Set 1:  Great American Tunes  for July 4th & beyond  ($74.95 value)

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 One lucky reader will win these 6 sweet CDs:

  

  • Ozomatli Presents Ozokidz (LA culture mashers known for singing about immigration protests, gang violence & hurricane Katrina they've now expanded their boundaries again and released a rockin' CD of kids' tunes about photosynthesis, spelling, balloons, germs, skateboards and a runaway moose that's so good you won't want to stop playing it the second you drop the kids at camp.  Freakin' hilarious, great musicians bringing quality, multicultural music in a range of genres.) $10

With five Parents’ Choice® awards to their credit, Ben Rudnick & Friends have what it takes to make recordings families love. Families also love their live shows, where the band’s unique dynamic transforms a concert into an event. The events are celebrations.
On July 11, 2008, the band set up at one of their favorite venues, the town green of Lexington, MA. The same green that saw the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Flying high from the string of shows that comes with summer, saying goodbye to their accordion player Mark Yacovone who was moving to Mississippi the next day, and joined by Rob “It’s Saturday Night” Lee on saxophones, the band turned in an unforgettable performance.
Featuring songs from their first six recordings and some favorite cover tunes, Live in Lexington fills every available second on the CD with good time tunes as only they can deliver.
Live in Lexington has garnered BR&F their SIXTH Parents' Choice Award.
ChiIL Mama had the great pleasure of catching the Okee Dokee Brothers for a video interview and shooting their live show at The Beat Kitchen in Chicago, where we sponsor an annual, weekly kindie music concert series.   They're down to earth, cool guys, with an eco-friendly bent and talent to spare.   We've given away copies of Can You Canoe earlier this year.   Now check out one of their earlier albums, Parents Choice Silver Award Winner and one of our favs, Take it Outside. $15



($77.93 value)


*Set 2:   Kidzapalooza Favs ($82 value):  

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ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama at one of the best kindie fests in the nation!   We've covered Kidza all 3 days of EVERY year of it's existance.   We'll be back again for 2013.   To get you jazzed for the fest, we're giving away a CD set including Ella Jenkins' latest release-Get Moving, and kindie favs that have graced the Kidza stage in years past.   One lucky reader will win 6 CDs from these Kidzapalooza Favs:




(These guys are long time favs of ours and we've had the pleasure of shooting their live shows at Kidzapalooza and catching them for a video interview.   They have a new release out--Deep Sea Diver.   But we also adore their last two, In Tents and Flying.)


($82 value) Here's the rockin' 2013 Kidzapalooza lineup!    





 Ralph’s World


The Not Its

The Q Brothers

The Blisters

Peter DiStefano & Tor

Jambo

School of Rock

Ella Jenkins

Kristian Bush

Perry Farrell

Special Guests 


  *Set 3:   Windy Kindie CDs ($96.80 value!!) Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter: 

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  Our own home town kids' musicians are awesome.   Look for these Chicago favorites at street fests all summer & at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids again this fall.   One lucky reader will win these 8 CDs by Chicago Kindie favorites:
($96.80 value!!)


  #8.  Mini Bunny Bonanza ($39.95 value)
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  For those summer days when some bunny needs a nap and some big bunny needs a break!!   Let Randy Travis & Lilly Tomlin take over on the endless story reading detail for a while.   Then watch your little one drift off to sleep to Deborah Poppink sweet, original tunes.   She's an over 40 mom of 2, and she gets it! Hop from Spring into Summer with bunny fun from our ChiIL Picks List for birth to 7 year olds.   *Some bunny will win both a DVD story collection & DidiPop CD! (Since bunnies know how to multiply over the summer months... we'll double this winning!!  2 winners chosen.)




  • Scholastic Storybook Treasures Read Along DVDs--The Springtime Collection featuring Max's Chocolate Chicken.   12 stories on 3 DVDs with narration by Lily Tomlin, Randy Travis and others.  $24.95 
Deborah Poppink is a kindie musician with 2 daughters of her own.  She says DidiPop comes from when I was a kids (“Debbie Poppins”) and because it’s fun to say and sing. The Beatles are my inspiration, and I was raised on pop radio from the 60s and 70s and musical theater. I started playing piano when I was 3, guitar at 9 and songwriting at 17. My mom says I sang the day I was born. I’ve always loved great music, a catchy chorus and interesting story.

“Bunny In The Moon: bedtime songs for falling asleep" is a new album of 14 original songs, designed to wind your child down to dream-land.
The “Goodnight Moon of children’s music. Your child will look forward to turning out the light and listening as s/he falls asleep to this intimate collection of winding down songs. 

Deborah says, as a mother who waited until she was 40 to start having kids, I pour as much art, music and mindfulness into my girls as I can… in small and fun doses. I hope that you will and can give your child music and art that inspires and teaches. I make music for my girls because it was my very best love as a child and it provided me with so much. I hope to share that love and present mindedness with you and your child…through song, rhythm and magic.
ChiIL Out in Chi, IL with theatre & live music:




#9.  Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Shrek at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre ($100 value) Your choice of any dates pending availability 7/13-9/1!   Enter through midnight 7/9.





#10.   Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Justin Roberts at Ravinia-Pavilion Seats ($40 value).  
Enter through midnight 7/9.

Check back soon for his brand new release!!   We'll be reviewing it right here and giving one away.


Chicago Tickets-Family 4 Pack to Mindy Hester & The Time Outs at Wilmette Theatre ($40 value).  
Enter through midnight 7/25.

Disclaimer:   Thanks to all the kindie musicians, theatres, authors, publishers, Warner Brothers and American Girl for providing us with giveaway prizes and review copies.   All opinions are our own.
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Monday, October 22, 2012

KINDIE LAND: David Tobocman's Escalator CD #review

Move It On Up Now with David Tobocman’s new release,
David Tobocman's Escalator

Escalator

Smart Songwriting and Thoughtful Lyrics Inspired by Family Life. New Release September 28, 2012


What People Are Saying about David Tobocman's Music:

“...taps into a child's mind with insight and grace” ~  OutWithTheKids.com

"Appealing and clever. Sweetly offbeat." ~ You Know, for Kids

"Tuneful melodies and sweet, memorable songs" ~ Singin' in the Bathtub

"Hilarious and playful, Tobocman's songwriting resounds with life truths in a way that little ears and parents will understand and enjoy" ~ Muse Reviews
 
"Totally appealing" ~ Zooglobble

"Positively easy on the ears" ~ Hear It Love It Share It
Songwriter David Tobocman’s third album for children is a celebration, a rousing set of high-energy songs about the excitement of growing up. Rocking and straightforward with an emphasis on movement, Escalator is infused with a “let’s go” spirit and true sense of fun.

There’s a song about a young race car that dreams of hitting the open road and one about a family camper that can travel through space. All through Escalator, David presents the theme of striving and advancing, urging kids onto life’s great adventure, to “move on up” with optimism and spirit up the great big escalator and “if you’re going down, then use the stairs.”
David Tobocman's EscalatorAlways witty and engaging, David’s playful songs for children show the craft that he’s developed as a career songwriter and composer. When not recording and performing for kids, David writes scores for indie films and TV shows (he is currently penning songs for the Nickelodeon animated series, Robot and Monster).

After years working behind the scenes, the birth of two daughters inspired his first album for children, the stylistically diverse I Count to Ten and other Very Helpful Songs, which gained critical acclaim and fan interest off of the deeply affecting ballad, “Home” and its accompanying video. His 2010 album Lemonade School also gained national attention.

The characters that populate David’s songs are intelligent kids who are not afraid to be different. “Kids are smart,” says the songwriter. “I just try to meet them at their level.”

When he's not performing major concerts around Los Angeles (he and his band played the prestigious Getty Garden Series and Topanga's Theatricum Botanicum in August), this musical father of two hones his craft with free monthly family sing-alongs at various venues.

Escalator ($12.98 CD/$9.99 digital). For David Tobocman's bio and 2012 concert schedule, visit www.VeryHelpfulSongs.com. 
Escalator
by David Tobocman
Available on CD September 28, 2012
Suggested retail price: $12.
Distributed by Clamorhouse Kids

Track Listing
1. Escalator  2:13
2. Custom Family Spaceship 2:55
3. Born to Rock 3:08
4. Gonna Be a Garbage Man 2:26
5. The Owie Song 2:30
6. Playin' on a Sunday 3:36
7. Run Run, Race Car 3:21
8. Zoe's Intro  :19
9. Peace Sign 2:27
10. America's Our Country 3:21
11. Big Train 3:06

David Tobocman and daughter

Making records for children in the Tobocman household is a family affair. The two Tobocman daughters sing and provide dialog throughout Escalator while the eldest has co-written songs on all three albums. With the arrival of his first CD in 2008, David and his enterprising wife, KC Mancebo created Clamorhouse Kids, a children’s music label dedicated to providing independents with distribution and promotion, a label that KC now runs. This umbrella group allows like-minded independent kids’ musicians to band together as a collective to gain entry into the established network of distributors.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Kindie Land--3 CD Bonanza Joanie Leeds, Orange Sherbet and Poochamungas #Giveaway

Beat Kitchen's Concerts For Kids-Winter Fest

 ChiIL Mama's Next Kindie Land CD Multipack Is HERE For You To Enter To Win! 

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Between now and October 10th, you can win rockin' kindie CDs including our old favs, new kindie tunes hot off the presses, and some CDs so new they haven't even been released yet!!   We include loads of award winning musicians the whole family will dig.   

 Entries are accepted nationwide.   So enter like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often.   We've broken our favs down into two 3 packs and another 5 pack.   Congrats to our recent 5 pack winner, Teresa O. of Chicago.

 Enter to win any or all.   Our next 3 CD multi pack winners will be chosen and announced October 10th from a combo of our on line and in person entrants.   Live in Chi-town?   Swing by and see us at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids Kick Off on 9/30.   Spread the word for more chances to win.   You can tweet up to once a day for additional entries.

 Check back with ChiIL Mama for original band video interviews, original show shots and footage, reviews, photo filled recaps and more.
One winner will take home all of the following (est $45 value):
#1  Orange Sherbet--Delicious
Check out their main site right here


Orange Sherbet “...miraculously blended the nearly impossible olio of educational messaging, dazzling musicianship and clever songwriting”  -Time Out Chicago Kids

“DELICIOUS is tasty.”  -The Rock Father

Orange Sherbet’s new cd Delicious is a tasty, jazzed-up, seventeen-song musical celebration of the joys of growing, preparing, and enjoying nourishing, delicious, local, seasonal meals. 

“With Delicious it's likely you'll want seconds.”  -Zooglobble

The toe tappin’ tastiness and scrumptious singing served up in Orange Sherbet’s Delicious will have kids dancing at the farmers’ market through all four seasons--clamoring for the taste of parsnips, persimmons, purple kale, and tomatillos!   -Vanessa Barrington ~ Author/Blogger/Chef



 #2  Joanie Leeds and The Nightlights--What a Zoo
#3  Poochamungas--Mud, Mommies and Mayhem



Click here for our Poochamungas video interview.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Kindie Land-'RAISE A RUCKUS' A NEW CD FROM HULLABALOO





**Summer time is vacation time.   Whether your days are lazy days or crazy days, we have some car--tunes to make your summer days run smoothly, whether you're driving cross country or cross town.   Here are a range of family friendly road trip tunes.   


Check in with ChiIL Mama like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often throughout July, August, and into the fall.  We'll be posting our own reviews on all our 2012 kindie land favs and giving away CDs galore to our readers!!   Enter your e-mail in the side bar so you don't miss a thing.   We never spam, sell or share your contact info.**



'RAISE A RUCKUS'
A NEW CD FROM

HULLABALOO

WITH GRAMMY® WINNERS BUCK HOWDY AND MARCY MARXER
PLUS MOLLY LEDFORD (OF LUNCH MONEY) AND DENNIS CAPLINGER

TOP 10 BEST CHILDREN'S CDs of 2010:  “As good as it gets when it comes to children's music.” 
– Parents Magazine

8 OUT OF 10 STARS: “If Johnny Cash had downed a case of Red Bull, then gone out to perform for an arena full of kids, it might have sounded like this.”
– COOKIE magazine

BEST CHILDREN'S MUSIC of 2011 : “An instant in-car classic.” 
– Education.com

With ten major national awards in their hip pocket and an eight-year track record of glowing critical acclaim, the beloved "free-range, organic" kid-folk duo Hullabaloo has pulled out all the stops for their 10th studio CD, Raise a Ruckus.

Produced by GRAMMY® nominee Tor Hyams,  Raise a Ruckus takes Hullabaloo's down-home, good-times musical ebullience to a new level, with guest artists Grammy® winner Buck Howdy, Grammy® winner Marcy Marxer, Molly Ledford of Lunch Money, and the extraordinary multi-instrumentalist Dennis Caplinger — whose credits include Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, Vince Gill, Ray Price, Rita Coolidge, and Nickel Creek, among many others — bringing their considerable talents to a kick-up-your-heels party with the duo that's been described as a blend of Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, and Mr. Rogers.

Hullabaloo has made a career out of creating tickle-your-funnybone, laugh-out-loud humor that saturates every song and qualifies them as direct heirs to the likes of Homer & Jethro and the Hoosier Hot-Shots.  The clever quality of Hullabaloo's narrations sets the story of each song in a halo of brainy sophistication, while their knockout musicianship and vocal clarity deliver the entire production with a sense of effortless grace.  Steve Denyes and Brendan Kremer can safely challenge any parent or child to listen to them cut loose on a goofy, palindrome-filled gem like "Dad Upside Down" without cracking a smile.  That kind of infectious humor permeates every track of Raise a Ruckus.

The album's title song — in the old days, a real "get down and boogie" staple on Louisiana Hayride and The Grand Ole Opry — has been given new, kid-friendly lyrics and up-to-date energy, while other songs, like "Trash is My Treasure" (the triumphant anthem of a food-recycling seagull) have a more contemporary slant.   One of the most evocatively colorful songs on Raise a Ruckus, "Favorite Day," calls upon Molly Ledford to combine her vocal and xylophone talents with those of Dennis Caplinger on ukulele and dobro, along with the great sound of Gunnar Biggs' slap bass. Buck Howdy really shines on a "Song About Nothing," which proves that if a song has a great shape and energy, syntax takes a back seat.

Steve Denyes and Brendan Kremer met in kindergarten and have been friends ever since.  They started playing music together in the 5th grade band, where they vigorously showed off their developing talents on "Old MacDonald" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."  Little did they know that, decades later, these songs would still be among their biggest hits!   Steve grew up to be an elementary school music teacher, folksinger, and songwriter, while Brendan became a rock 'n' roll drummer.  Hullabaloo officially began when Steve and Brendan teamed up to play a few songs at Brendan's twin daughters' first birthday party.  Fast-forward eight years to find that Hullabaloo has performed more than 1,500 shows throughout the country at venues ranging from birthday parties to fancy concert halls.  Along the way they've released nine award-winning albums (at last count, with more than 20,000 sold) and developed a loyal following nationwide.


 
CD Details: RAISE A RUCKUSFor all ages, and especially suited to kids up to age 6
Release date:  September 4, 2012.
Label: Hullabaloo Music
SRP: $12.00
Run time: 32 minutes


HULLABALOO LATE SUMMER/FALL 2012 CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS

September 9 Theatricum Botanicum Los Angeles, CA

September 22 Second Annual Hullabaloo Family Arts Festival San Diego, CA

October 12 & 13 Austin City Limits Festival (Austin Kiddie Limits) Austin, TX

October 28 JAMband Family Festival San Francisco, CA




http://hullabalooband.com
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