Most of our family friendly fare lives over at ChiILMama.com. But Mama says it's great to share, and since we know lots of our readers at ChiIL Live Shows have kids, and everyone knows someone who does... we're going to share these sweet giveaways over here, too.
We're celebrating summer with hundreds of bucks worth of freebies including live concert tickets, 20 kindie (kids' indie) CDs and much more. Check it out.
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:
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
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:
- Putumayo Kids Presents American Playground (featuring loads of greats including favs of ours Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell--brand new 6/18 release) $14.98
- Ratboy Jr.--Champions of the Universe (These guys are one of our all time favs, back with a 2nd release.) $12.97
- Shine and The Moonbeams (brand new release) $9.99
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- 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
- Live in Lexington--Under the Copper Beech-Ben Rudnick & Friends ($14.99 with 4 panel eco-jacket) Sure he's got a new one out, but this one's too cool for the 4th of July.
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.
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.
- Okee Dokee Brothers--Take it Outside (Grammy Winners-Best Children's Album of the Year for Can You Canoe)
($77.93 value)
*Set 2:
Kidzapalooza Favs ($82 value):
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- Ella Jenkins'--Get Moving Click here for samples from Get Moving. $11.98
- Rocknoceros--Colonel Purple Turtle $15
- Candy Band--High Five Click here for samples from High Five $11.04
- Recess Monkey--In Tents $14.99
- Recess Monkey--Flying $14.99
- Laura Doherty-Shining Like a Star $13.99 Parents Choice Silver Award Winner and Laura's latest release
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!!)
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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:
- Pop of the Tots--Human Tim + Robot Tim $9.99
- Mud, Mommies, and Mayhem--Poochamungas $12.00
- Mr Singer & The Sharp Cookies--Bouncing Ball of Energy $9.99
- Mr Singer & The Sharp Cookies--Muddy Water Beaver Dam Band(full album download card) $9.99
- Ice Cream Vendors--Now! With More Dog Barks $13.99
- The Dreamtree Shakers--Dream and You Will See (An oldie but goodie & still one of our favs. Also check out their new release Big Top Tent) $10
- Istvan & His Imaginary Band--Sweet! $8.00
- Boogers--Extractum Victoris (This is their latest & heaviest kids' punk yet and one of our top picks of the year. ChiIL Mama's even quoted right on the front page of their site.) $12.84
#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.
#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.
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.
Don't miss 'Circus Symphony'- the 4th annual youth created, directed, and produced circus show presented by the 'CircusTeens' of CircEsteem.
