Joining Sarah, Amy and Emily are Court Yard Hounds (aka sisters Martie and Emily of The Dixie Chicks), and other indie 90s icons Beth Orton and Cat Power. Newer female artists on the line-up are Missy Higgins, Sara Bareilles, Nneka, Lissie, Jesca Hoop (Tom Waits says of Jesca “Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”). Fab collaboration Chairlift has two male band members but apparently Lilith’s mellowing in its old age.
And just like back in the day, the 2010 Lilith Tour is contributing profits from the concert series to good works. $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the [i4c] Campaign – an initiative to build a responsible economy.
Want to win two free lawn tickets to see all these music greats? There are TWO chances to win: The 9:30 Club and Merriweather Post Pavilion is sending two lucky A Parent in Silver Spring readers and their guests to the show!
To enter, just leave a comment with your favorite lyrics from any song by any artist that’s played at any Lilith Fair.
You can also receive extra entries in the drawing if you
Winners will be randomly drawn on Monday July 19 at 8pm. Tickets are non-transferable and winners will require an I.D. for pick-up at Will Call on August 3rd.
Here’s some lyrics I love by Sinéad Lohan, who appeared on the 1999 tour:
whatever it takes you to believe it
that’s all right with me
take this morning say it walks on water
whatever that helps you to believe
If you’re at a lyrics loss, I bet you know the words to this little ditty:
Love and luck to all! (Now, where did I store my Docs?)
Disclosure: No compensation in any form was received by the author for this post. All my ’90s Lilith Fair tickets and countless alternative chick CDs were paid for by my parents’ kind college text book allowance or my first meager salary. However those Jewel, Paula Cole and Shawn Colvin CDs? Don’t look at me–my husband bought those. Thanks to 9:30 Club and Merriweather Post Pavilion for the prizes for readers.
Mom blog giveaways of gift cards, gift certificates and free products rock, right? That’s why every time you leave a comment on a post on A Parent in Silver Spring, you’re entered to win. (Dude, that sounded so commercial-y! Can you tell I’ve been letting the kids watch more TV since they’ve been let out of school? Yikes.)
Thanks so much for all your comments in May – there were officially over 200 entries for the May giveaway of a $50 Mastercard Gift Card to be used where ever Mastercard is accepted.
And the May winner was…
Shawn M. J. !
For the month of June, there will be THREE winners and the giveaway is not just one product, but two:
Three lucky commenters will win Bitdefender‘s award-winning internet security software for 2010, and when the 2011 version is out, you’ll receive a code for next year too! Why this giveaway is so freaking cool: The software costs about $40 a year for 1 PC, and Bitdefender protects your PC from viruses and spyware, and allows you to install firewalls and parental controls, without slowing down your computer.
I’m a writer, and not super techno-savvy (I leave THAT to my good friend Tech Savvy Mama Leticia, who is in fact the Chief BitMom for Bitdefender and dedicated to teaching parents online about important Internet security issues pertaining to parents). But here’s my non-tech-savvy review of Bitdefender’s software: I found that after installing McAfee on my new laptop, my Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers constantly timed out. And you know how much time I spend online. This was so annoying! My screen usually went to that light-colored-frozen-frustration when I was on live chat with my boss or answering an important work email via webmail. McAfee was really cramping my professional style and wasting my time as I tried to bust out my work assignments so I can have more quality time with my kids.
But I didn’t want my brand new baby (the Dell Inspiron with all the bells and whistles in APISS apple green that Chris got me for my birthday – thanks babe!) to get fried by some gnarly virus or for it to become super-slow as some crook somewhere received info on every key stroke or purchase I made at his diabolical lair. Every computer needs an Internet security system.
So I uninstalled McAfee (completely trashing the $50 yearly service I’d already paid for, nice) and installed the free copy of Bitdefender 2010 I received at MomzShare‘s Silver Spring Soiree. Since then my Internet has not been timing out, is running as fast as when it was naked of Internet security and I have been free of viruses, spyware and other yuck-o stuff. I will also be installing it on the desktop my children use to play educational games (and someday will use for homework) with the parental controls enabled.
In short, Bitdefender provides for your PC
Antivirus & Antispyware
Identity Protection
Firewalls
Antispam
Parental Control
Optimized Performance
And this month, you will be entered to win your own Bitdefender 2010 and 2011 software every time you
leave comments on any and all the posts on A Parent in Silver Spring in June 2010
So please leave comments, comments, comments galore! Write what you like, what you don’t, what you think needs to be changed, events that are happening in your community, your own great finds…whatever!
Disclosure: Yup, I received my Bitdefender software for free, but I also dumped $50 worth of McAfee. My opinion expressed is totally my own. I mean, have you ever heard me so excited about software that didn’t involve playing Scrabble?
Do you have a business you’d like to promote through giving a gift to gracious A Parent in Silver Spring readers? As long as it is 100% free for readers and is worth at least $50, let’s give it away to the readers of my site, they are the best. Send me a line!
Giveaways rock! Thanks so much for all your comments in April – there were officially over 200 entries for the April giveaway of a 30-minute facial at Blue Heron Wellness! (Value: $50) If you need some pampering and wellness this weekend, they’re holding classes and have appointments for treatments this weekend. Visit their site and give them a call at (301) 754-3730.
And the April winner was…Lori Nicholson!
For May, wow, this month I was too crazybusy to coordinate a local business as the giveaway sponsor. So how about some cold hard plastic for your wallet? I picked up a$50 MasterCard Gift Card for one of you lucky peeps to use anywhere for literally any little thing your heart desires. Does mama need a new pair of shoes? A date night or girls’ night out? Gas? Groceries? Your choice! (As they say on the commercials, “Choosing your own gift? Priceless.)
To be entered
Leave comments on any and all the posts on A Parent in Silver Spring in May 2010 for individual entries.
Subscribe to the A Parent in Silver Spring email feed (in which you receive new posts to the website in your email box, typically 5 times a week).
Subscribe to A Parent in Silver Spring in your feed reader.
Mention this contest on Twitter with an @jessicaAPISS so I can thank & follow you too.
Follow A Parent in Silver Spring on Facebook so you can receive new ideas for family fun when you’re logging on to wish your ex-roommate’s brother a happy birthday!
Here are the rules:
This monthly giveaway is totally separate from any other giveaways that I may hold on A Parent in Silver Spring or APISS Reviews.
This means if I write 30 posts a month and you leave a comment on each one, you’ll be entered in the drawing 30 times…and um, them’s purty good odds.
When you leave a comment, please click the FOLLOW button directly below the comment text box. This way I can notify you that you are a winner. (I HIGHLY recommend simply clicking the follow button and entering your email for notification of replies to your comment, rather than leaving the text to your email address within your comment – this is how you get gross spam.)
Comments sent to me via email are always appreciated, but will not be counted for this monthly giveaway series.
Featured businesses may provide the gift certificates and gift cards and swag. All giveaways in this series will be worth at least $50 each and require no further purchase of goods or services from the winner. (Have a business you’d like to promote through giving a gift to gracious A Parent in Silver Spring reading parents? Send me a line!)
So please leave comments, comments, comments galore! Write what you like, what you don’t, what you think needs to be changed, events that are happening in your community, your own great finds…whatever!
Blue Heron Wellness, the integrated wellness center specializing in acupuncture, therapeutic massage, yoga and herbal medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, is now offering natural skin care services. Their expert estheticians provide safe, effective treatments and products to assist us in meeting our health and wellness goals for our skin. Skin treatments all begin with a thorough skin analysis, cleansing routine formulated to your needs, exfoliation, extractions, and treatment mask and moisturizer. And each facial treatment includes a shoulder, neck and head massage to relax and revitalize you!
Want to up your chances of winning that blessed half hour of beauty and pampering? Then go to the Washingtonian’s Best of Washington 2010and place your votes. While you’re there, you can nominate Blue Heron for best yoga studio #37 (best yoga studio) or best day spa (#40). You could also nominate me for best local blogger (#52) if you want, or any of the other badass bloggers that write about our fair town! Then come back here and leave a comment that you voted, and you’ll be entered five more times in the drawing.
And you can leave comments on all the posts on A Parent in Silver Spring in April 2010 for more entries, and every new subscriber to the A Parent in Silver Spring email feed (in which you receive new posts to the website in your email box, typically 5 times a week) will receive a bonus entry! Subscribe here.
Here are the rules:
This monthly giveaway is totally separate to any other giveaways that I may hold on A Parent in Silver Spring or APISS Reviews.
Leave a comment on any post on A Parent in Silver Spring in April 2010.
Leave one comment per post – multiple comments on the same post will be counted just once.
This means if I write 30 posts a month and you leave a comment on each one, you’ll be entered in the drawing 30 times…and um, them’s purty good odds.
When you leave a comment, please click the FOLLOW button directly below the comment text box. This way I can notify you that you are a winner. (I HIGHLY recommend simply clicking the follow button and entering your email for notification of replies to your comment, rather than leaving the text to your email address within your comment – this is how you get gross spam.)
Comments sent to me via email are always appreciated, but will not be counted for this monthly giveaway series.
Featured businesses may provide the gift certificates and gift cards and swag. All giveaways in this series will be worth at least $50 each and require no further purchase of goods or services from the winner. (Have a business you’d like to promote through giving a gift to gracious A Parent in Silver Spring reading parents? Send me a line!)
So please leave comments, comments, comments galore! Write what you like, what you don’t, what you think needs to be changed, events that are happening in your community, your own great finds…whatever!
Just a reminder that for every comment left on an A Parent in Silver Spring March 2010 post (click that link for all of ‘em), you are entered to win$50 to spend at Jasmere.com on any products you love.
And every new subscriber to the A Parent in Silver Spring email feed, in which you receive new posts to the website in your email box (typically 5 times a week), will receive a bonus entry! Subscribe here.
Want to win two free lawn tickets to see all these music greats? There are TWO chances to win: The 9:30 Club and Merriweather Post Pavilion is sending two lucky A Parent in Silver Spring readers and their guests to the show!
