Day 2, Week of the Cookie: "The Way We Gets Down" 360 VR Music Video Premiere on Cooperdiem.com

It's day 2 of the Week of the Cookie! Courtesy of Cooper McHatton at Cooperdiem.com, Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips proudly present a Mighty VR Production in conjunction with Rite-Shot Media, "The Way We Gets Down," a 360 music video experience.

Check out the article here and read about the process.

Check out video below...and make sure to open in your youtube app and move your phone around to see the Way 360 Gets Down!!

The Week of the Cookie begins today! Hold On to Your Dreams Video Premiere on Kids Can Groove

The Week of the Cookie begins today! On March 11, my family band, Mista Cookie Jar & The Chocolate Chips, will premiere our 3rd album, “Music is Everywhere.” In promotion of the album, starting TODAY, we will be dropping 5 fresh new music videos, one each day until the premiere on Friday, March 11.

Check out the full article here.

Kids Can Groove will be kicking off the videos with the debut of the "Hold On to Your Dreams” official music video (link above). Filmed in northern California's redwood forest, the debut features Chocolate Chip fam bam homies, Tembra Campbell & Lyrin. Check out the link above for the video, more info on the Week of the Cookie, the story behind the new music video as well as a brand new Mista Cookie Jar interview!

"LA-based group Mista Cookie Jar and The Chocolate Chis are one of the biggest champions of bringing positive messages into households. This family ensemble is eager to reach young, developing minds and to inspire thinkers, dreamers, and those of us young at heart."

--Kids Can Groove

Stay tuned for video debuts on Cooperdiem.com, Out With The Kids, Full Van Fun, and the album release on Zooglobble. ‪#‎RaisedByUnicorns‬

Spring Shows 2016!

Whole lotta LA shows this coming season!

2 new shows added with Andrew & Polly & Jim Cosgrove to celebrate the compliation releases of "Heart Beats" and "Smiles Ahead" on Mighty Mo Productions in conjunction with Hallmark! Jan 30 at Amy's Hallmark Shop in Manhattan Beach and Jan 31 and the legendary McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Also, a new venue for me. Children’s Book World! Always wanted to perform at this beautiful children's bookstore...and it's just down the road from where we live! Here's the newest flyer ('toon of Mista Cookie Jar created by my friend, Todd McHatton of Todd and Cookie): 

Click links for address, pricing, etc. 

Jan 28 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Jan 30 - Sat - Amy’s Hallmark Shop
           w/Andrew & Polly & Jim Cosgrove - 11am (Manhattan Beach)
Jan 31 - Sun - McCabe’s w/Andrew & Polly & Jim Cosgrove - 11am (Santa Monica)
Feb 6 - Sat - Books and Cookies - 10:00am - Santa Monica, CA (Main St.)
Feb 11 - Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Feb 25 - Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
March 4 - Fri - Zimmer Children’s Museum (w/Luis!) - 11am - LA, CA - (Mid-Whilshire)
March 10 - Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
March 31- Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
April 14 - Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
April 23 - Children’s Book World - 10:30am - West LA, CA (Rancho Park)
April 28 - Thurs -  Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)

#MistaCookieJar 2015-16 LA Winter Shows!!

Cows End shows are all based on donations. Holiday Show at Cow's End (feat. Cow's End artists, Andrew & Polly, David Tobocman, and Danny Meyer) is  $10 suggested donation. Books and Cookies is $10 as well. Below are the addresses. See you guys there!

*Update* Details on Jan 30 & 31 shows coming soon!

The Cow's End Cafe

34 Washington Blvd

Venice, CA

90292

Books and Cookies

2309 Main Street

Santa Monica, California 

90405

Zimmer Children's Museum
6505 Wilshire Blvd., #100 
Los Angeles, CA 90048 

Andrew & Polly & Mista Cookie Jar "L.A. Christmas" Music Video World Premiere on Zooglobble!

Happy to share with yall a brand new music video & holiday jam I co-wrote with my über-talented LA children music homies, Andrew & Polly. Shout out to Zooglobble for the sweet write up and big up to team A&P, team Cookie, and all the families involved. ( ‪#‎cowsend‬ fams what's good?!) Let's sneak a peak under the Xmas tree, shall we? Just this once?? 

With ❤🌴🎶💚,
Cookie

Los Angeles children's musicians, Andrew & Polly and Mista Cookie Jar, team up on this LA-tastic holiday jam!

"It's just an LA Christmas.
It's just an LA Christmas.
Ain't got no pine trees.
But it's the season to sway together.
We all palm trees, alright."

"L.A. Christmas" 

Written and performed by Andrew & Polly & Mista Cookie Jar

Starring

Andrew & Polly
& Mista Cookie Jar

Christmas Elves

Akira, Devin, Hildegard, Kai, Lily, Nyla, Quentin & Westley

Cinematographer 

John Dilbeck

Art Department

Jenna aka Missis Cookie Jar
Caroline Ward

Directed and Edited by
Mista & Missis Cookie Jar

Big big thank you to the "LA Christmas" parents and children for their time, talent, and la la love!

Filmed by the Venice Pier, 11-16-2015.

Available on iTunes, Amazon, and pretty much everywhere.

Follow Andrew & Polly at
AndrewAndPolly.com

Autumn 2015 Mista Cookie Jar Shows!

Here's the Autumn schedule for Mista Cookie Jar shows in the LA area. Click on each show below to find out location and pricing details. Check back for updates on flyer and new shows added -- I get a lot of last minute stuff! [UPDATE: New Cow's End Show Nov 5th and Books & Cookie show originally in Dec has been moved to Jan 23.]

For show requests, b-day parties & all other inquiries: MistaCookieJar@gmail.com

Click hyperlinks for details:

Sept 10 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Sept 14 - Mon - Cow’s End  - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Sept 26 - Sat - Marzo’s Variety Show - Zephyr Theatre - 11am - Hollywood, CA
Oct 8 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Oct 22 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Nov 5 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
***Nov 8 - Sun - Zimmer Children’s Museum - 3pm - LA, CA (Mid-Whilshire)
Nov 19 - Thurs - Cow’s End - 10:30am - Venice, CA (Near Venice Pier)
Jan 23 - Sat - Books and Cookies - 10:00am - Santa Monica, CA (Main St.)

***Show features Ava Flava

"It's Only In Your Head" World Premiere on Kids Can Groove

Here it is folks, the 13th and final single-a-month drop, "It's Only In Your Head," as premiered this morning on Kids Can Groove. Today, October 13, is the anniversary of the whole single-a-month shebang! This single is a special one. Not only is it the finale of a whole year of dropping singles (13 in a row!), it's also a song 4 years in the making. Check out the Kids Can Groove write up for the story behind creating the song and the blogger's personal look at the tune in relation with dealing with her kid's nightmares.

 

In the realm of dreams, nightmares, and flights of the imagination, love (particularly, the non-mushy kind) can turn fear into wonder, confusion into whimsy, and terror into glee. 4 years in the making, the 13th and final Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips single-a-month release, "It's Only in Your Head," is a heart-on-sleeve opus for fearful and doubting young minds. With lyrical vignettes, clever wordplay, and a mirage of classic storybook and fable references, Mista Cookie Jar spins that common phrase of condescension, "it's only in your head," into a freewill affirming, "mad-hatter mantra" in that warm, whimsical way only Mista Cookie Jar can do. 

"Sprinkled with echoing soundbites and twinkling glockenspiel, 'It's Only in Your Head' reminds kids that no matter how real things seem when they close their eyes, they are safe and surrounded by the love that awaits them when they wake up. "

  -- Kids Can Groove 

“It’s Only in Your Head”

Written and Performed by

Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips

Kids Can Groove Online Premiere: Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Credits: 

Instruments:  Strings, harp, glockenspiel, bass, guitar, drums, sampler

Instrumentation: Mista Cookie Jar

Vocals: Mista Cookie Jar, Missis Cookie Jar

Written and Performed by: Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips

Producer: Mista Cookie Jar

Lyrics:

Did you wake up 

and everything was still dark? 

Oh no!

It's just a silly nightmare. 

There’s a pounding pounding 

inside your heart. 

Oh no!

It's just a silly nightmare. 

Nightmare. What a nightmare!

I know you're feeling 

so scared here. 

But believe me

Nothing to fear here. 

You're a smashing 

brilliant sensation. 

Fill ya heart up. 

That is your floatation. 

Row row your boat

up to the starlight. 

Let the love you found

shine a far light. 

Dream a tightrope. 

Look straight ahead. 

You’re not falling down. 

It's just in your head!

It's only in your head.

She wakes up screaming

in the middle of a dream, 

crying no no no! 

(Mr. Sandman, bring me a treat.)

Somehow she lost the magic.

Off to tragic.

Down the rabbit hole she goes.

But, its only in her head.

They drop him gently

in the middle of a cloud.

He cries, ‘Don't don't don’t!’

(If you believe it you can fly!)

He's got the wings to fly.

He thinks he's too high,

Says he can't go on.

He's so wrong.

Because...it's only his head.

Life is but a dream. 

So full of darkness 

and brilliant beams. 

Some things may or may not 

be what they seem. 

Gotta let it all go 

when you float upstream. 

Turn a new leaf. 

Fresh new looseleaf. 

Stay true. Keep it way loose. 

One thing to save you… 

A superhero in tights?

Nah,

it's the love all around you. 

Lucky we found you!

It's only in your head.