Good news, "the Love Bubble" made it to # 2 a couple weeks ago on Sirius radio! There's still a good chance to get LOVE BUBBLE up to number 1 !
Hollar at Sirius Radio's Kids Place Live and request "Mista Cookie Jar's "Love Bubble"! You can also request "Love Bubble Unplugged" if you wanna hear something new ; )
Performed once again at the Castle Heights Fall Festival Oct 23rd, 2011. So much fun! Also rocked the Abbot Kinney Festival Sept. 25th! Pics for both coming soon.
A couple more hot shows coming this fall. October 30th, 2011 from 3pm to 4pm, we will be performing at the Zimmer Children's Museum! Click here for their website:
Check out their write up for us:
"Nothing’s yummier than the musical sounds of Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips! They’ll be mixing up a batter bowl of Urban Island Folky Rock and Roll for the Inner Child. Fusing audio content and visual style, tradition and innovation, Mista Cookie Jar unites a rockstar excitement with the warmth of family music. You definitely don’t want to miss this performance!"
We have another show for a reading from the book, "Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood." This will take place at Los Feliz's famous, Skylight BooksSaturday, November 12 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm.
“Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” collects the best pieces from Tomas Moniz’s award-winning “Rad Dad” zine and from Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications explore parenting as political territory.Join the “Rad Dad” authors in pushing the conversation around fathering beyond a safe, apolitical place; come create a diverse, multi-faceted space to grapple with the complexity of fathering.Reading along with Moniz and Smith are Jason Sperber, young adult novelist Lisa Yee and special musical guest: Mista Cookie Jar!
Awesome news! Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips are FEATURED on a new iPhone/iPad App called "Sing & Send StoryChimes!" Our songs, Love Bubble, Joey the Dogg, Room 28, and Inner Child Rock can be downloaded in 99 cent paired packages. Then you can read the lyrics as you listen to the songs, turn off the vocals and sing along karaoke style, scratch the track like a BOSS dj, and even record it and send it to your Grumpa!
Click here to check it out! The application's free!!
ABOUT SING & SEND STORYCHIMES!
Sing & Send is the best way for the kids (and parents alike) to sing along with their favorite songs, record them and then send them. All at the touch of a button.
The easy-to-use design will have kids singing in no time at all. New 99 cent song packs will be added frequently, so there will always be something new to discover!
Sing and Send also features a DJ feature so you can have some fun scratching the record or play with the speed of the recording!
Share via Facebook, YouTube or e-mail!
Includes these awesome features:
• Two songs included with this download! • Expandable music library for only 99 cents per pack of 3 songs. • Record with or without background vocals! • Interactive DJ fun! • SongBank to store you favorite recordings. • Share your songs via Facebook, YouTube and e-mail! • Song art shared with each sent and shared recording!
Now you can continue to listen to gangstas shooting and hustling around, while we go for kids with abig smile of their face. Music is not just about nodding heads, it's also one of the strongest and fastestway to get into people's mind, especially if they're youngsters. Positive music and good education goestogether in order to create a better future. That's how we all should roll.
On April 17, 2011, our song, "The Love Bubble" was featured on the podcast, Kindiecast with Tor Hyams!
"Supertalents" (off our album, the Love Bubble) featuring Gregory Brown, will be featured in the U.S. Department of State's "Sing Out Loud: Modern American Rhythms CD." The CD will be released throughout the world to help teach English through song. More on this later when the CD has its official release (date to be determined, but hopefully by the end of the summer.)
Also stay tuned for more updates on the 3d Supertalents music video, still currently in post-production phase.
June 11 & 12, Ava and I with honorary Chocolate Chip Hula Hooper, Jessi-Fresh, rocked out the Harmony Fest's Kids Zone in Santa Rosa. For more pics click here. You can say we officially opened up for the Flaming Lips and Primus.
Here's a pic I took of the Flaming Lips on my celly. Incredible, eh?
Also, Grandma Cookie and I got to rock out as Evil Sandwiches with magical super friends the Ukulady, Gabby La La, Don Black, and Emily Butterfly. How cool is that?
Met some great peeps in the Kindie scene over the past few months. At Kindiefest in NYC this May, I met Dan Zanes and 23 Skidoo. Met a ton of other ubertalents---too many to name!
Mid June, here in LA, there was a "So Cal Kindie Cook Out" at David Tobocman's pad for a little BBQ campfire jam session organized by NYC kindie writer, Jeff Bogle. Got to jam out with David, the Pop Ups, Birdie Mendoza, and Rhythm Child! Around the fire, we roasted smores and played some Bob--Dylan and Marley, Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Violent Femmes, and even the Pixies. Fun times indeed!
Coming up, we have a couple shows with the TNP crowd over in Little Tokyo! July 19th, we're rocking TNP and will be debuting our new song, "Happy Place." Here's the info. Also, August 6th, TNP presents the J-Town Summer Sessions. We will be recording this performance and it will feature the Ukulady's Ukulad on banjo and mandolin!
Tuesday Night Project presents:
in partnership with Glenn Suravech & Mosaic Sound Recordings and Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
J-Town Summer Sessions: A Live Concert Recording and Celebration of Art + Community
August 6th, 2011
1pm-7pm
Doors open at 12:45pm
Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
505 E 3rd St (at 3rd & Central)
Los Angeles, CA
Look who's on the bill!...that's right, the CHOCOLATE CHIPS! It's the largest free outdoor music event on the West Side! This Sunday, June 26, 1pm at the New Orleans Bldg. Courtyard...Main Street, Santa Monica. Later that afternoon we'll be performing OceanPark MerchantsMart...come one, come all!
Here it is!! The online premiere of ROOM 28 (That's How We Roll)!!!
Introducing Mr. Valdez & the Kids of Room 28--Ava Flava's 4th grade class!!!
LA teacher, Mr. Valdez & his class present their year-long music project, "Room 28 (That's How We Roll)." With the assistance of musician and classroom parent, Mista Cookie Jar, Mr. Valdez & Room 28 have created themselves an anthem that will live on forever!
The song features all 28 students of the classroom as well as Mr. V on the M-I-C. Both the song and video were crafted together as a class with Mr. Valdez and Mista Cookie Jar every Tuesday in the 2010 to 11 school year.
A You're Benched Productions in association with the Love Bubble
Filmed in LA, CA
For best quality, watch in 1080p HD!
(Just change your youtube player settings.)
It goes without saying, that I am just so incredibly over-the-top proud of the students of Room 28. Jenna, Ava Flava's mom, and I have been blessed to be able to work with these kids each Tuesday this entire year. It started as something very casual and, with the help of their teacher, Mr. Valdez, and support from the school community, it’s turned into this grand music video production. I'd like to give a very big special thanks to Mr. V for his enthusiasm and dedication to the project. He was as much a part of the process as these kids were. I’d also like to thank Mr V as the master 4th grade teacher that he is, bringing his unique wisdom to these kids, putting his heart into helping them find their true potential. As an artist, the chemistry between Mr Valdez and his students has been my inspiration throughout the whole year. And as this school year marvelously comes to a close, its sad to let it go. This is why Jenna and I have put so much time and energy into this project--we never want to forget the spirit of Room 28. Its AWESOME. Its magical. Its a rare bond this classroom has--the way they get along with each other, their humor, the way they collectively help each other grow. If you were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the inner workings of this classroom (any room parents out there reading this?! lol), you would have seen it serves as a visceral example of unity, how its engine runs, how it gets down from day to day. Jenna and I were fortunate enough to witness it as these kids do, blessed to have been able to document it weekly. It was our mission to transform this spirit into song---hip hop--as chosen by the kids, and a music video so that their anthem will live on forever.
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We have also created a “Behind the Scenes” 13 minute mini-documentary. We wanted to take a closer, slower look at how these kids in fact “roll.” The music video you can say was set to nitro to keep up with these kids so full of adrenaline. With the Behind the Scenes video, we've attempted to break the music video down and the meaning of room 28 at a pace for all to follow so you too can catch in detail the fast, ever-moving spirit behind Mr. Valdez’s class.
This is a behind the scenes look at the making of the music video, "Room 28 (That's How We Roll)." Directed by LA kids music composer and room-parent, Mista Cookie Jar, this 13 minute mini-documentary takes a closer look at the classroom spirit of the 4th grade students of Room 28 and their beloved teacher, Mr. Valdez. The video breaks down the meaning of the classroom anthem, "Room 28," (as composed by Room 28 & Mista Cookie Jar), the Room 28 recording & creative process, the quirks of Mr. Valdez's classroom (Valdez Bucks, the Mobi Tablet, disco parties & more), and hilarious yet touching moments between Mr. Valdez & his kids. THIS is how they roll, son!
