Well, it’s that time of year again, it’s time to shake off that chill, shed a layer of long underwear, and start getting outside. That’s right Chicago after another long and cold winter spring is here!
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If you’re like me, as the days get longer and the sun graces us with brighter mornings you start remembering all the wonderful things our city has to offer. Bike rides on the lake, dining al fresco at neighborhood cafés, hanging out with friends at local festivals, and most of all Ravinia!
Since 1904, Ravinia has been Chicago’s “sound of summer,” a place where you can have a wonderful time and hear some of the greatest music in the world. It has become a Chicago Tradition to many, with the “Ravinia Experience” sharing time with friends under the Oaks and stars.
This month we wanted to take the “guesswork” out of your musical experience for the summer with our “Chicago Home Partner Recommended Ravinia Concerts”.
| Frankie Valli & The Four Season: | June 12th | 8:00 PM |
| Paul Simon: | June 18th | 8:00 PM |
| Bob Dylan: | June 24th | 7:30 PM |
| Jerry Garcia: | June 26th | 7:30 PM |
| Steve Miller Band: | July 2nd | 7:30 PM |
| Chris Cornell: | July 3rd | 6:30 PM |
| Duran Duran: | July 8th | 7:00 PM |
| Lyle Lovett & Emmylou Harris: | July 18th | 7:00 PM |
| Buddy Guy & Jeff Beck: | July 31st | 7:00 PM |
| Tony Bennett: | August 13th | 8:30 PM |
| Below is the full lineup for Ravinia 2016 | ||
| Concert Dance Inc. | 2-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Concert Dance Inc. | 3-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| The Lion’s Whiskers | 5-Jun | 1:00 PM |
| The Lion’s Whiskers | 5-Jun | 4:00 PM |
| Barenaked Ladies, OMD & Howard Jones | 9-Jun | 6:30 PM |
| Fire and Water | 10-Jun | 6:00 PM |
| Tan Dun’s Water Passion | 10-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor | 11-Jun | 4:45 PM |
| The Gershwin Experience | 11-Jun | 8:30 PM |
| Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons | 12-Jun | 8:00 PM |
| Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers” | 15-Jun | 8:30 PM |
| Water Music Suite | 16-Jun | 8:00 PM |
| Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute: Program for Jazz | 17-Jun | 6:00 PM |
| BoDeans | 17-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Paul Simon | 18-Jun | 8:00 PM |
| Father’s Day Jazz Special | 19-Jun | 6:00 PM |
| Seth MacFarlane | 22-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Patti LaBelle & The Commodores | 23-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Bob Dylan and his band Mavis Staples | 24-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Gavin DeGraw & The Fray | 25-Jun | 6:30 PM |
| Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration | 26-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Juilliard String Quartet | 27-Jun | 7:30 PM |
| Indigo Girls & Mary Chapin Carpenter | 1-Jul | 6:30 PM |
| Steve Miller Band | 2-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Chris Cornell | 3-Jul | 6:30 PM |
| Chick Corea Trio, Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton | 4-Jul | 5:00 PM |
| Emerson String Quartet | 5-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Midori | 6-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Neil Finn of Crowded House and Guster | 7-Jul | 6:30 PM |
| Duran Duran (Paper Gods On Tour) | 8-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Duran Duran (Paper Gods On Tour) | 9-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Phillip Phillips & Matt Nathanson | 10-Jul | 6:30 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Piano and Strings | 11-Jul | 6:00 PM |
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo Sweet Honey in the Rock | 11-Jul | 8:30 PM |
| Menahem Pressler | 12-Jul | 6:00 PM |
| American Premiere of Marsalis Concerto | 12-Jul | 8:00 PM |
| The Planets–An HD Odyssey | 13-Jul | 8:00 PM |
| Takács String Quartet | 15-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Beethoven’s 5th Symphony | 16-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Dan Zanes & Friends | 16-Jul | 11:00 AM |
| Tom Chapin & Friends | 17-Jul | 12:00 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Piano and Strings | 18-Jul | 6:00 PM |
| Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Emmylou Harris | 18-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Chanticleer | 19-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Piano and Strings | 20-Jul | 6:00 PM |
| Jean Yves Thibaudet | 20-Jul | 8:00 PM |
| All-Schumann Program | 21-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Julia Hsu and Peter Serkin | 22-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| James Levine Returns | 23-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Opera For The Young | 23-Jul | 11:00 AM |
| George Li | 24-Jul | 6:00 PM |
| Kenny Rogers’ Final World Tour: The Gambler’s Last Deal | 24-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Jorge Federico Osorio | 25-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Stravinsky’s The Firebird | 26-Jul | 8:00 PM |
| Diana Ross | 27-Jul | 8:30 PM |
| Zukerman Trio | 28-Jul | 7:30 PM |
| Titanic Live | 29-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Titanic Live | 29-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy | 31-Jul | 7:00 PM |
| Matthew Polenzani | 1-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| “New World” Symphony | 2-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Rhapsody in Blue | 3-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Danielle de Niese | 4-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto | 5-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Bryan Ferry | 6-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Joyous String Quartet | 6-Aug | 11:00 AM |
| Dolly Parton | 7-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Singers | 8-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” | 8-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| The Second Symphonies of Bernstein & Brahms | 9-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Singers | 10-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Brahms: Symphony No. 4 | 10-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| War Los Lonely Boys | 11-Aug | 7:00 PM |
| Josh Bell & Chris Botti | 12-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Tony Bennett | 13-Aug | 8:30 PM |
| Don Henley | 14-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| RSMI: Program for Singers | 15-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Don Henley | 15-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas | 16-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma | 16-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Complete Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin, Part 1 | 17-Aug | 5:30 PM |
| Complete Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin, Part 2 | 17-Aug | 8:30 PM |
| You’re the Top!: Cole Porter’s 125th Birthday Celebration | 17-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Part 1 | 18-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Judy Collins Sings Sondheim | 18-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Bizet’s Carmen | 19-Aug | 5:30 PM |
| Bizet’s Carmen | 19-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Go-Go’s | 19-Aug | 7:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Part 2 | 20-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Itzhak Perlman | 20-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Justin Roberts And The Not Ready For Naptime Players | 20-Aug | 11:00 AM |
| All-Tchaikovsky Program | 21-Aug | 5:00 PM |
| Roomful of Teeth | 21-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Part 3 | 22-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| All Russian Evening with Zuill Bailey | 23-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Lincoln Trio | 24-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Lucas Debargue Part 1 | 25-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| John Fogerty | 25-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Lucas Debargue Part 2 | 25-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven String Quartets, Part 1 | 26-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| TRAIN | 26-Aug | 7:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven String Quartets, Part 2 | 27-Aug | 1:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven String Quartets, Part 3 | 27-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| TRAIN | 27-Aug | 7:00 PM |
| Laurie Berkner | 27-Aug | 12:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven String Quartets, Part 4 | 28-Aug | 1:00 PM |
| Complete Beethoven String Quartets, Part 5 | 28-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| SEAL | 28-Aug | 7:00 PM |
| Something About Oscar—90th Birthday Celebration of Oscar Brown Jr. | 29-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Songs of Struggle and Redemption | 30-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| An Unlikely Muse | 30-Aug | 7:30 PM |
| Dan Tepfer | 31-Aug | 6:00 PM |
| Dan Tepfer and Ben Wendel | 31-Aug | 8:00 PM |
| Three Chopin Mazurkas | 1-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Ms. Lauryn Hill | 1-Sep | 7:30 PM |
| An Evening of Harp and Guitar | 2-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Marty Stuart, Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters | 2-Sep | 7:30 PM |
| Joseph Moog | 3-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Bonnie Raitt | 3-Sep | 7:30 PM |
| Dmitri Levkovich | 4-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| O.A.R. | 4-Sep | 7:00 PM |
| The Wunder of Chopin | 5-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet | 6-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Complete Bartók String Quartets Part 1 | 7-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Complete Bartók String Quartets Part 2 | 8-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Classic Albums Live: David Bowie | 9-Sep | 8:00 PM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 10-Sep | 2:00 PM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 10-Sep | 5:30 PM |
| The Wizard of Oz | 10-Sep | 7:00 PM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 10-Sep | 11:00 AM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 11-Sep | 2:00 PM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 11-Sep | 5:30 PM |
| Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II | 11-Sep | 6:00 PM |
| Winnie the Pooh | 11-Sep | 11:00 AM |
| Los Tigres del Norte | 17-Sep | 6:00 PM |
