Set your alarm!

Tickets go on sale starting at 8 am., tomorrow, May 4, for Ravinia Festival. 2022 summer season, which runs from May 20 through September 18.

No more long lines at the box office

Grab a cuppa coffee, your computer or phone and go online. Tickets to all summer concerts can be purchased here or at Ravinia.org, exclusively.

Marin Alsop

“We are thrilled to be able to present so many talented local artists on one of our stages this summer,” said Jeff Haydon, Ravinia Festival President and CEO. “Supporting Chicagoland artists and giving them performance opportunities here at home not only expands our local music scene but helps them to create meaningful experiences while building awareness with new audiences.” 

Highlights

Pitbull

The 2022 summer series will include more than 100 concerts, featuring artists including Pitbull, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Emmylou Harris, Grace Potter, The Black Crowes, and Ziggy Marley. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will once again return for a six-week summer residency beginning in July, featuring 15 programs led by Marin Alsop.

Live performances at the Kohl Kaplan Fountain

Live performances at the festival’s Kohl Kaplan Fountain will return this summer as well, and will include a Reach Teach Play Teaching Artists Jazz Quartet on June 2 and 7; a combo from the Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Jazz on June 8; Nanny Nikki on June 18; Chicago-based saxophone quartet Nois on August 21; and Mariachi Son de Fuego on September 18.

Expanded Carousel Programming

Raviniaa Carousel

Ravinia Festival just announce an expanded summer series on its Carousel stage following a successful inaugural year in 2021. The Carousel stage on the North Lawn offers casual, general admission seating for individual events, and, new this year, will host opening acts for several Pavilion headliners during the summer season, which runs from May 20 through September 18. This summer, the Carousel programming will highlight many of the Chicago area’s most promising and rising musicians.

The Ravinia Carousel concert series includes:

Ravinia Festival’s Reach Teach Play Jazz Mentors & Scholars, June 19

Chicago band and winner of The Bitter Jester Festival’s 2021 Music Fest Competition Summer Drive, June 23

Son Little, June 25

Chicago band Rookie, July 8

Chicago-based Licensed to Sail DJs present Club MTV, August 26

Chicago-based band Tobacco City, September 2

Chicago singer KAINA, September 11

Flor de Toloache, September 18

Photo: Courtesy of Ravinai