This year’s Grant Park Music Festival will take place from June 15 to August 20 at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park and venues throughout the city. Admission is totally free!
You are free to watch the rehearsals during the day, most Tuesdays–Fridays, June–August. During breaks in rehearsals, Festival docents lead informal talks about the music, composers, and the history of classical music in the front of the Seating Bowl.
There’s a pre-concert lecture, too, that will happen each Wednesday and Friday at 5:30pm, and Saturday at 6:15pm in the Family Fun Tent of Millennium Park. The Family Fun Tent is accessible via Randolph Street on the upper west side of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Signs and ushers can help direct you to the entrance.
Below is the schedule of performances (all programs are subject to change):
June
- Wednesday, June 15, 6:30pm
- Friday, June 17, 6:30pm
- Saturday, June 18, 7:30pm
- Wednesday, June 22, 6:30pm
- Friday, June 24, 6:30pm
- Saturday, June 25, 7:30pm
- Wednesday, June 29, 6:30pm
July
- Friday, July 1, 6:30pm
- Saturday, July 2, 7:30pm
- Monday, July 4, 6:30pm
- Wednesday, July 6, 8pm
- Friday, July 8, 8pm
- Saturday, July 9, 8pm
- Wednesday, July 13, 6:30pm
- Friday, July 15, 6:30pm
- Saturday, July 16, 7:30pm
- Wednesday, July 20, 6:30pm
- Friday, July 22, 6:30pm
- Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm
- Sunday, July 24, 3pm(at the Columbus Park Refectory)
- Tuesday, July 26, 7pm(at the South Shore Cultural Center)
- Wednesday, July 27, 6:30pm
- Friday, July 29, 6:30pm(at the South Shore Cultural Center)
- Saturday, July 30, 7:30pm(Harris Theater for Music and Dance)
August
- Wednesday, August 3, 6:30pm
- Friday, August 5, 6:30pm
- Saturday, August 6, 7:30pm
- Wednesday, August 10, 6:30pm
- Friday, August 12, 6:30pm
- Saturday, August 13, 7:30pm
- Wednesday, August 17, 6:30pm
- Friday, August 19, 6:30pm
- Saturday, August 20, 7:30pm
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