Ravinia Announces Additional Shows and Lawn Screen Nights, Including OneRepublic and Cheap Trick

Ravinia today announced additional concerts occurring during the summer season as well shows that will also include a lawn screen, adding to the unique festival experience. Tickets to all Ravinia summer concerts go on sale at 5 a.m. on April 25 exclusively at Ravinia.org.

Rock group OneRepublic makes its debut along with soul artist Mayer Hawthorne and Churchill on a triple bill, July 23. Best-known for their smash hit "Apologize," which remained on Billboard's Hot 100 for 10 weeks which peaked at number two and led to a remix featured on Timbaland's album Shock Value, OneRepublic recently released their third studio album, Native, in March, with its first single "Feel Again" appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Influenced by Smokey Robinson and the songwriting trio Holland, Dozier, Holland Michigan native Mayer Hawthorne also draws inspiration from Juan Atkins, J Dilla and Michael McDonald. His latest album How Do You Do includes singles "A Long Time," which is an homage to Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" as well as a history of Detroit, and "Can't Stop," a duet with rap artist Snoop Dogg (Lion). Denver quintet Churchill continue to tour extensively in the U.S.m earning raves and many fans especially with their first single, "Change." Producing all of their own music, Churchill will release its first record this spring.

Known for such classic hits as "Surrender" and "I Want You to Want Me," Rockford's own Cheap Trick returns to Ravinia on Aug. 31, this time performing two classic live albums, Cheap Trick at Budokan and Sgt. Pepper Live, with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra. With over 35 years in the music industry, Cheap Trick has sold more than 20 million records, earning 40 gold and platinum statuses. Cheap Trick at Budokan is the band's best-selling recording and was honored in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Sgt. Pepper Live features a full-length in-concert cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, celebrating the original album's 40th anniversary.

In its Ravinia debut Classic Albums Live appears on Sept. 8 performing the iconic Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon. Classic Albums Live takes definitive albums and recreates them live on stage, note for note. The band celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2013. The Dark Side of the Moon recently became an inductee into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, which is meant to preserve records based on their cultural, artistic and historic importance to the nation's aural legacy.

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