America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom is a multi-genre concert of…
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America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom is a multi-genre concert of…
America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. America: Songs and Stories of Protest and Freedom is a multi-genre concert of…
NewberryFest: 250 Years of the United States
Join the Newberry Library for our summer NewberryFest, designed to help both new and returning visitors of all ages learn more about the library. This…
America’s Blues Birthday Party
America’s Blues Birthday Party is an official America 250 celebration and a FREE, two-day outdoor music festival honoring America’s blues heritage across multiple eras, styles,…
Fauré Requiem
Christopher Bell celebrates his 25th anniversary as Director of the Grant Park Chorus with Fauré’s beloved Requiem. James MacMillan’s powerful Cantos Sagrados opens the program alongside Vaughan Williams’s Toward…
Cirque: A Space Odyssey
The high-flying aerialists of Troupe Vertigo join the Grant Park Orchestra led by Enrico Lopez-Yañez, performing eye-popping feats to classical works and film scores, including Star…
An Evening with Ben Folds
Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo…
Ohlsson Plays Chopin
Garrick Ohlsson—one of only two Americans to have won the International Chopin Piano Competition—returns to the Festival to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Conducted…
Mozart Requiem
Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s soul-stirring Requiem, left incomplete at the time of the composer’s premature death at 35.…
America’s Blues Birthday Party
America’s Blues Birthday Party is an official America 250 event. It is a FREE, two-day outdoor celebration honoring 250 years of blues music, spanning various…
Dvořák New World Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Dvořák’s New World Symphony, a Czech composer’s interpretation of the American folk songs and spirituals he had come to admire while living in the…
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