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Snarky Puppy with Damien Escobar and Jacob Collier: “Culcha Vulcha” Tour at Ravinia

For additional information on Snarky Puppy, visit SnarkyPuppy.com, DameEsco.com and JacobCollier.com. Upcoming concert highlights at Ravinia include Classic Albums Live [More…]

Roger Daltrey, Ravinia Festival Orchestra pump The Who’s “Tommy” with splendor

Rank them in any order of preference, but The Who mean just as much as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd when it comes to rock n’ roll that [More…]

Seal serenades Ravinia with standards, a kiss and a prayer in tour kick-off

Put the phone book in front of Seal and he can make it sound spectacular. Do the same with a pile of a standards from the 1930s with some artistic license extending into the [More…]

No-nonsense ZZ Top, Creedence-focused John Fogerty link up for “Blues & Bayous” at Ravinia

Catching ZZ Top or John Fogerty on their own would warrant enough of a reason to rock out, but when the world’s most recognizable bearded band teamed up with the former [More…]

R&B songstress Anita Baker slays Ravinia before getting “Caught Up In The Rapture” of retirement

Throughout the mid-1980s and front half of the 1990s, Anita Baker was unquestionably the leading lady of R&B whose typhoon of singles and multi-platinum albums allowed [More…]

Diana Ross delivers diva-style, plus Ravinia reveals dining pavilion during opening weekend

Whether it felt warm enough to qualify or not, summer is officially here now that Ravinia opened its sprawling gates for the 2018 edition of American’s longest running [More…]

The Who’s Roger Daltrey, supreme diva Diana Ross amongst ten must see Ravinia shows this summer

It might not technically be summer just yet, but it sure did feel that way when Ravinia dropped its extensive line-up. Though classical music will always be the base for [More…]

A silky Smokey Robinson invokes a “Quiet Storm” of Motown remembrances at Ravinia

About halfway into Smokey Robinson’s performance on an idyllic end of summer evening at Ravinia (where he last appeared in 1989), the enduring entertainer recalled the era [More…]

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons keep the “Jersey Beat” under the Ravinia streetlamp

Up until the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” chronicled the dramatic ascent and shortcomings of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, its fearless leader was slogging it [More…]

A semi-retiring Aretha Franklin is nothing short of regal at Ravinia

Long before an announcer introduced Aretha Franklin as an 18-time Grammy Award winner, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and someone who sits atop [More…]