By popular demand, best-selling children's recording artist and preschool television favorite Laurie Berkner will return to The Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park, IL with her Greatest Hits Solo Tour at 12:00 noon on Saturday, August 27, 2016.
Laurie Berkner says, "I can't wait to play The Ravinia
Festival again this August! Every time I look out over that gorgeous setting and see my Chicagoland fans singing and dancing along with me, it feels like coming home."
With such well-loved hits as "Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)," "Victor Vito," "We Are The Dinosaurs," and "Pig on Her Head," Laurie's Ravinia performance will showcase many fan favorites, including an array of
Laurie Berkner tunes that encourage kids and grownups alike to get up and dance. Kids should plan to bring their dancing shoes and a stuffed animal (for their heads).
As a special, "sneak preview" treat for the Ravinia audience, Laurie will also perform songs from her upcoming album, Superhero.
To give everyone a chance to catch their breath between high-energy moments, the show will include quieter interludes, with songs such as Laurie's classic "Moon Moon Moon."
At Laurie Berkner's solo shows, in addition to familiar hits, Laurie performs songs that don't always fit with a full-band performance: tunes with simpler arrangements, hand motions, and a cappella singing, like "Bottle Caps," "One Seed," "Telephone," and "Drive My Car."
Dubbed "one of children's music's biggest success stories" by USA Today, Laurie Berkner's original songs, albums, DVDs, music videos, and books leave no doubt: Laurie is the uncrowned queen of children's music and the power behind the progressive "kindie rock" movement.
Laurie Berkner was the first artist to ever appear in music videos on Nick Jr. and was featured in nearly all the episodes of the channel's Jack's Big Music Show. She currently stars in the animated musical short-form series Sing It, Laurie! on the Sprout preschool channel and has made frequent appearances on Sprout's Sunny Side Up morning show. Laurie is also a familiar presence on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live, where her "The Music In Me Minute," featuring tips about incorporating music into family life, is heard throughout each day.
Laurie's eleventh album, Superhero, loaded with brand-new, original material, will be released in
September 2016. Superhero is Laurie's first full album since 2008 to be comprised entirely of all-new songs. This is the album Laurie's fans have been waiting for!
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, will publish three picture books with
Laurie Berkner over the next two years. The first, We Are the Dinosaurs, is scheduled for release in March 2017. We Are the
Dinosaurs may be pre-ordered on the Simon & Schuster website HERE.
A former preschool music teacher by day and indie rocker by night,
Laurie Berkner started selling her music more than fifteen years ago out of her living room on her own label, Two Tomatoes Records. Laurie has received tremendous critical acclaim. Time Magazine lauded Laurie as "a kind of sippy-cup
Sheryl Crow ... Berkner inhabits a kid's curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated -- very repeated -- listenings."
The Wall Street Journal called Laurie "one of the most popular children's performers in America ... her music is distinctive because it speaks to kids without talking down to them, charming youngsters without boring grown-ups."
WHAT: Laurie Berkner, Solo! "The Greatest Hits Tour" Returns to Ravinia!
WHEN: 12:00 noon, Saturday, August 27, 2016.
WHERE: The Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035
TICKETS: $15 Pavilion, $5 lawn, plus applicable fees
TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Call 847-266-5100 or visit the Ravinia Festival website
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the Ravinia Festival website.
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