Rockin' with Ronnie: Kids Concerts in the Park
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Road
Select Tuesdays this summer at the Hopkins Park Bandshell! FREE
July 18- Miss Jamie's Farm
Planting seeds through song! Miss Jamie from the Farm takes young kids and their families on an imaginative musical adventure to her "farm," where they learn values like hard work, healthy eating, and being kind to animals and each other. With the help of familiar and new farm animal puppets and songs, Miss Jamie's Farm kids' music show will leave everyone stomping their boots and hollering for more fruits & veggies!
Perfect for pre-schoolers up through age 8, Miss Jamie and her puppet friends from the farm take the audience on a magical barnyard adventure in a sing-along, dance-along show that's fun for kids and grownups alike.
The interactive performance features well-known farm songs and original tunes like "Happy Chickens Lay Yummy Eggs" and "Keepin' it Pesticide Free" and teaches healthy eating and responsible farming in a fun way that leaves everyone stompin' their boots and hollerin' for more.
Sing, dance, laugh, and learn with Miss Jamie and her farmyard friends!
Jamie "Miss Jamie" Blythe is an actress/country singer turned Mom/Children's Music Performer. Her young daughter, Taylor, is the inspiration behind her new musical journey, and Jamie now strives to educate and entertain young kids while giving hardworking parents a much-deserved break in their day.
Jamie has been acting and singing professionally since she herself was young, and she brings her background of growing up on a ranch in Texas to the kids of the big city of Chicago and the surrounding areas. Kids and parents love to get involved with the singing and dancing show, and everyone always has a great time and learns something.
Miss Jamie's show takes kids on a musical tour of the farm with the help of puppet friends Sweet Jen the Hen, The Great and Powerful Chickie of the Farm, Willie the Out of Work Horse, Prissy the Pig, Benny the Barista (Lamb), Courtney the Cow, Freddie the Slow Fox, and often, Jamie’s own little farmhand, Taylor Gibson Martin. The puppet characters all play against stereotypes and teach kids that you can't judge a book by its cover, while keeping them laughing all the while.
While keeping it fun, the show is full of educational opportunities about eggs, milk, fruits and veggies, and the animals found on the farm. Miss Jamie’s aim is to teach kids how to make healthy choices in their meals and snacks with hopes to influence their future purchasing behavior - going the organic and free range to support animal, soil, and small farm health. The kids mostly love to interact with the puppets and talk as they shake their shaker eggs and sing along to their favorite songs.
Unlike other kids' shows, the parents in the audience won't get bored with Miss Jamie’s Farm music show. There are funny 'grown up' anecdotes, like Ronald being the wealthy and unhealthy grandson of Old MacDonald - more interested in his healthy real estate investments than healthy food. The puppet voices are for the kids, but the characters are for the parents: Prissy the Pig takes great pride in her cute appearance and suggests that since pigs don't really roll in the mud because they're dirty but actually to cool off, she'd like to ditch the 'dirty' reputation and would prefer instead that pigs be known in the future as the 'hot' farm animal. Benny the Baaaaarista knows everyone's favorite coffee drink. Courtney the Cow is a workout and diet fanatic as the COWisthenics instructor on the farm, Freddy the Fox is too slow to steal eggs, and Sweet Jen the Hen is too kind ever to gab or gossip. And then there's Willie the Out of Workhorse, who is looking for a job now that horses aren't needed to pull farm equipment and have been replaced by tractors.
Miss Jamie from the Farm performs her one-of-a-kind show at libraries, schools, park districts, concert halls, and all of the Mariano’s Fresh Market grocery stores across Illinois every month.
Come play with Miss Jamie and her fun-loving farm friends!
https://youtu.be/pxAdH6YVkMM