Hey, whoever said that Happy Hour celebrations had to end after having kids sure never heard of Baby Loves Disco!
Baby Loves Disco The Superhero Tour rolls into the Rock N Roll Hotel in downtown DC on Wednesday August 17!Grab your kids for this family-friendly dance party and evening outing packed chock full of activities for kids and parents to share.
DC area families are invited to join hop onto the cape of the Superhero tour and dance, play, savor healthy snacks and generally enjoy good times with family and friends. Parents and kids may dress up as their favorite superheroes, or come just as they are.
Each event of the tour rocks with special guest superheroes DJ Firetraxx and MC Mr. Marc, dance instruction, big video screens, super contests, craft activities, healthy snacks and surprises at every turn. At its core, each event retains the patented mix of Baby Loves Disco magic that has helped connect a worldwide community of moms, dads and kids of all nations, of all colors and all walks of life, all in the name of dance (and fun!).
Tickets are available now online at www.babylovesdisco.com, or at the door: $20 or the awesome group rate (call your playgroup!) of 4 for $60
Do you love Miranda Lambert as much as I do? She’s one of my biggest girl crushes. Or my husband’s – he’s the one who introduced me to her music when she first came on the scene.
I love her songs in which she rocks out with her don’t-mess-with-me messages. And her new collaboration in the group Pistol Annies is cool; I’m currently loving “Hell on Heels” because it reminds me of the Dolly Parton songs I listened to as a kid.
But since my firstborn is named Charlie and our family is way into catching fireflies this summer, I have such a soft spot for this single:
And Miranda’s a blogger. Check out her vlogs – she’s adorable. And she Tweets. I love how she presents an image of a real woman, in addition to being a great musician. Just check out this twit pic of her in an apron holding beer while she’s got “a pig on the smoker”.
Leave a comment on this post why you could use a girls’ night out with Miranda Lambert! Be sure to login through Facebook or leave your email address so I can contact you if you win.
Share this post on Facebook and/or Twitter. Here’s a sample update or Tweet: A Parent in Silver Spring is giving away tickets to see Miranda Lambert in concert! Details here http://aparentinsilverspring.com.
The winner will be randomly drawn from all means of entry on Sunday July 10 at midnight.
Thanks Merriweather and 9:30 Club for offering this giveaway for A Parent in Silver Spring readers!
And as always, thank you for reading. I really appreciate it.
I did not receive any compensation for hosting this giveaway other than the satisfaction that two of you will be dancing to Kerosene with beers in hand next week.
Hey hot mamas (and dads) – interested in winning a pair of tickets to dance along to Kylie Minogue in concert? I have two free tickets to giveaway, courtesy of the awesome concert promoters!
UPDATE: The winner was Theresa C.H.!
Here are the concert details – please note your own calendar before you enter, since the tickets are non-transferable:
Share this contest and discount on Facebook and Twitter for additional entries. Here’s a sample status update or Tweet: “@A Parent in Silver Spring is giving away tickets see Kylie Minogue! http://bit.ly/f37jWI”
Get your entries in before Thursday April 28 at 5pm, when I’ll draw the winner.
I received no compensation of any kind for this post and giveaway, other than the satisfaction that you guys will have an incredible experience at the show!
UPDATE: The randomly-drawn winner is Junga K.! Thanks everyone!
We all know that OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) poignantly soundtracked Andie and Blane’s star-crossed love in Pretty in Pink while Duckie sadly watched in the corner with his scuffed steel-toed shoes until Kristi Swanson soundlessly indicated she’d make out with him.
However, some kids in the ’80s and ’90s took their OMD love even further, obtaining every tape, and then CD, of the Brit new wave synth pop band. They daydreamed to “Dreaming” and sang in their hairbrushes to “Enola Gay” and choreographed dance routines to “Tesla Girls”.
These kids also tended to adore the Pet Shop Boys and New Order and Depeche Mode and Erasure and Echo and the Bunnymen, and if they were very innocent teenage girls, they may have had no idea that the tunes they were blasting in their pink and purple bedrooms while thinking about boys were being danced to by boys in grown-up dance clubs who were also thinking about boys. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it would have helped explaining why the hotties with all the hairspray and polka-dotted rayon shirts that they adored were usually only just good friends. Sigh.)
And then those kids all grew up and now nostalgically download those same OMD tunes onto their iPods and dance around their kitchens while sweeping up the Goldfish crumbs. They book babysitters to go dancing with their friends for retro synth pop nights. Their children grow up warbling in the backseat with faint British accents and dancing in their Pull-Ups with club kid aplomb.
And when OMD comes into town, these grown-ups jump up and down with their pregnant bellies bouncing obscenely and tell the 9:30 Club promoters that their mom blog NEEDS TO COVER THIS INCREDIBLE EVENT.
And the 9:30 Club peeps smile their oh-so-cool-indie-chic smiles and blessedly say “Sure!” and give me tickets for myself and best bloggy IRL BFF Tech Savvy Mama for a girls’ night out and two more tickets for the readers of A Parent in Silver Spring.
So, do you want ‘em?
Here’s how to win!
Leave a comment here with your email address or Facebook so I can contact you if you win. Because this is a giveaway for a show this week, please only comment/enter if you are free and can make it!
Change your Facebook status update/post on Twitter: “A Parent in Silver Spring is giving away two tickets to OMD in concert & I want to win! http://bit.ly/fQ2AZY“
I’ll draw the winners of the two tickets to OMD on Monday night at midnight.
If you don’t win, I still hope you’ll join me and Tech Savvy Mama for a Britishifically, poptastically, syntheriffic night out.
I wonder if my old Liberator t-shirt will still fit?
And for those of you who loved Pretty in Pink, here’s a dramatic interpretation by Meg Cabot, starring a Mattel’s Ken and a member of Strawberry Shortcake’s posse:
Disclosure: I get two tickets, you get two tickets. Nothing else changed hands. I would’ve bought my own tickets, but this way you get some too. Fair? I think so!
