Ravinia Festival Tickets Go On Sale April 28
One of
my most favorite things to do in the Summer is go to the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park Illinois. I
first went to a concert there in 1969, my Father took me to see Benny Goodman
and I never forgot it. This is
Ravinia is the oldest outdoor music festival
in the United States with everything from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
to the late Frank Zappa playing there. The festival is a 3,200 seat band shell
with perfect acoustics and
then a huge lawn on 36 acres
that holds comfortably 15,000
and it sells out almost every night. The concerts are in June, July, August and
a few in September.
What is so
nice about Ravinia is the you can bring any food and
drink into the venue and have a picnic while hearing great music. There are
great dining establishments on the grounds too if you do not plan ahead. You
find little bars all over and you can get fine wine by the glass, a drink or hard
liquor or a nice beer. Also the Metra train station is right in the grounds
of the festival so we just hop
on the train and go and then get home in about 25 minutes, as happy as can be.
A few of
the Artist playing in the 2015 season are the Gypsy Kings, Steely Dan, Santana,
Tony Bennett with Lady Gaga, the Doobie Brothers, The Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Steve Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Chicago, ZZ Top,
Little Big Town, Jackson Browne, Gladys Knight, The O'Jays, Itzhak Perlman, and I am only naming a few if you want to
see the complete schedule click Ravinia Festival2015.
See you at Ravina, I will be wearing shorts and shaking my booty.
originally from
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