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like setting. The concert brings people with their picnic baskets and blankets, ready to enjoy and afternoon or evening on the lawn in a casual setting. There are dining options on the grounds as well, for those who do not pack a dinner. Following is the chronological listing of concerts and events at Ravinia for the month of June.
Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. – Pavilion
“Three Girls and Their Buddy” Emmylou Harris ,Patty Griffin , Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller
Media Support: 93XRT
Tickets: $50/Lawn $22**/Park opens at 4 p.m.
Friday, June 12, 8 p.m. – Pavilion
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
Ramsey Lewis - Lewis: Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem by Ramsey Lewis* (world premiere)
Sponsor: The Edward and Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation
Media Support: DownBeat
Tickets: $45/Lawn $10/Park opens at 5 p.m.
Saturday, June 13, 11 a.m. – Pavilion
Kraft Kids Concert
Dirty Sock Funtime Band
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Inc.
Media Support: WTMX, Pioneer Press
Tickets: $10/Lawn $5/Park opens at 10 a.m.
Saturday, June 13, 7:30 p.m. – Pavilion An Evening with BoDeans
Sponsors: Greenberg Traurig, LLP; KPMG LLP
Media Support: 93XRT
Tickets: $50/Lawn $22**/Park opens at 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 14, 7 p.m. – Pavilion
Goran Bregovic & His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra +
Tickets: $40/Lawn $10/Park opens at 4 p.m.
Wednesday, June 17, 8 p.m. – Pavilion
Chicago Children’s Choir in Concert
Media Support: Time Out Chicago Kids
Tickets: $45/$10/Lawn $10/Park opens at 3 p.m.
Thursday, June 18, 8 p.m. – Martin Theatre In Honor of the 250th Anniversary of Handel’s Death
Baroque Band +
All-Handel program
Tickets: $40/$25/Lawn $10/Park opens at 5 p.m.
Friday, June 19, 7:30 p.m. – Bennett • Gordon Hall “The Future of Jazz”
Participants in the program for jazz at Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists
Tickets: $10/No lawn sales/Park opens at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 20, 4:45 p.m. – Pavilion
Live National Broadcast A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
Sponsor: United Airlines
Tickets: $65/$35/Lawn $10/Park opens at 3 p.m.
Saturday, June 20, 8 p.m. – Martin Theatre Misha Dichter, Piano
Cipa Dichter, Piano
Dvo?ák: Legends, Op. 59, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (“Songs without Words”)* (world premiere of four-hand arrangement)
Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D. 784
Beethoven: Bagatelles Op. 126
Liszt: Concerto Pathétique, S. 258
Sponsor: Paul Williams and Leslie Berger
Tickets: $50/$30/Lawn $10/Park opens at 5 p.m.
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Sunday, June 21, 7 p.m. – Pavilion Pink Martini with special guest Michael Feinstein
Sponsors: Marcie and Avy Stein; Joyce and Avrum Gray, in loving memory of Mae K. and Joseph J. Gray
Media Support: DownBeat
Tickets: $60/$40/Lawn $20**/Park opens at 4 p.m.
Monday, June 22, 8 p.m. – Martin Theatre
In Honor of the 200th Anniversary of Haydn’s Death
Juilliard String Quartet
Haydn: “Sun” Quartets, Op. 20, Nos. 2-5
Sponsor: Sue and Tom Pick
Tickets: $50/$30/Lawn $10/Park opens at 5 p.m.
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Friday, June 26, 8 p.m. – Pavilion Indigo Girls
Sponsor: Motorola Foundation
Media Support: 93XRT
Tickets: $45/Lawn $22**/Park opens at 5 p.m.
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Saturday, June 27, 7:30 p.m. – Pavilion An Evening with Diana Krall
Sponsor: Northern Trust
Media Support: DownBeat, 93XRT
Tickets: $90/Lawn $27**/Park opens at 5 p.m.
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Sunday, June 28, 7 p.m. – Pavilion In Honor of the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Joe Cocker +
Media Support: 93XRT
Tickets: $50/Lawn $22**/Park opens at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, June 30, 2 p.m. – Bennett • Gordon Hall
Master Class
Leon Fleisher
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Tuesday, June 30, 8 p.m. – Pavilion The Music of ABBA as performed by Arrival from Sweden +
Tickets: $45/Lawn $22**/Park opens at 5 p.m.
Tickets to all Ravinia Festival events go on sale exclusively at www.ravinia.org beginning April 16. Phone sales begin on May 17 at 847-266-5100. Please note that performances are not visible from the lawn. Ravinia is located in Highland Park 20 miles north of Chicago, Illinois; at Lake Cook and Green Bay roads. For more information, please visit www.ravinia.org.
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The Ravinia Festival should be thrilling as always, with the performances of Steinway Artists Cipa and Misha Dichter, as well as the popular Diana Krall. Add to that the accomplished Juilliard String Quartet and crowd-pleaser Pink Martini, and you've got one of the most anticipated events in the country! The Ravinia Festival has long been one of the hundreds of institutions to choose Steinway as the exclusive provider of fine pianos for professional performances. But a Steinway piano is not intended solely for the concert pianists who choose them for their art. Many are owned by amateur players and enthusiasts of piano music, which can only be fully expressed on an instrument of superior tone, craftsmanship and value - all hallmarks of a Steinway. To see how a Steinway piano would fit in your home, please visit us at www.steinwaydetroit.com to request your free Grand Piano Floor Plan template!
If you missed Colvin at Ravinia you have another chance to catcher her whenCentre East presents Grammy Award-winner Shawn Colvin Saturday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Selections will include many audience favorites and selections from her recent acclaimed CD “Shawn Colvin Live.” Opening for Colvin is Zachary Scot Johnson, who has been described as having “the smooth guitar lines of James Taylor, the spunk of Joni Mitchell, the vocals of Elvis Costello, and the songwriting ability of all three" (The Lawrentian, 2003). This concert is presented as part of Centre East’s 2009-2010 Singer/Songwriter Series, sponsored by WXRT. For more info visit northshorecenter.org. G
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