General Admission Ticket: $60–$65
Price increases by $5 one week before the event; ticket selection screen shows current price
Video Screen on the North Lawn
A live video feed from the Hunter Pavilion is shown on a giant video screen facing the North Lawn, in addition to the permanent screens inside the pavilion and facing the South Lawn.
Some general-admission areas of the Lawn may have limited or obstructed views of screens.
Know Before You Go
Getting to Ravinia: Parking, Rideshare & Train
$35 Parking • Park and Ride Open • Free Metra UP-N Train
Park in the West Parking Lot at 201 Ravinia Park Rd. The lot opens 1 hour before the listed “Public Gates” time.
Shuttles from the free Park and Ride lot in downtown Highland Park begin running 30 minutes before the listed “Public Gates” time.
Alert your driver: Uber, Lyft, and other car services must use one of the following parking lots to drop off and pick up guests.
- West Parking Lot (201 Ravinia Park Rd) — inbound access allowed up to 30 minutes before the end of the performance
- Braeside Train Station (10 N. St. Johns Ave) — ¼ mile walk from Ravinia
- Ravinia Train Station (680 St. Johns Ave) — ½ mile walk from Ravinia
- No drop-offs or pick-ups are allowed on public streets. If Highland Park Police or Ravinia staff redirect traffic, please follow those instructions.
Ride the Metra Union Pacific North Line train to and from our main entrance for free with your Ravinia ticket.
More Train Info
Inside the Hunter Pavilion
Please note the following food, drink, and personal item policies before entering the Hunter Pavilion:
- Drinks are allowed inside the Pavilion at all performances, but must be in an approved container. Drinks must be in plastic cups or plastic bottles sized for 24oz or smaller. No metal or glass containers are permitted, including metal water bottles.
- No food is permitted at reserved seats.
- No bags larger than 18″×12″×12″, coolers, wagons, strollers, large umbrellas, or any other large items Large items may be returned to your vehicle or stored (unsupervised) along the outer perimeter inside the Pavilion.
- Items brought into the Pavilion are subject to search at the entrance.
- All guests must have a ticket for entry, regardless of age.
Prohibited Items
Any item deemed harmful or unsafe by Ravinia staff is prohibited.
While comfort and enjoyment of a night out at Ravinia are our top priorities, guests are prohibited from bringing the following items into the park:
- Firearms or explosives (including those possessed by off-duty officers or concealed carry license holders)
- Professional photographic and video or audio recording equipment
- Grills, firepits, or large open flames
- Chafing fuel or other canned heating products (e.g., Sterno)
- Beer kegs
- Athletic equipment (e.g., balls and flying discs)
- Bicycles, scooters, or skates (bike racks can be found outside the west and south entrances)
- Animals, except for service animals trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities
- Tents or canopies
- Umbrellas over six feet in diameter
- Anything that needs to be staked into the ground
- Drones or other flying apparatus
- Items intended for protest, solicitation, or promotion not related to the event
Contact the box office (847-266-5100) with any questions.
Performance Content
At Ravinia, we believe that music has the power to bring people together. While we do not control what artists share, we ask all participants—artists and audiences alike—to uphold the spirit of respect, community, and connection that Ravinia offers.
Should any circumstance threaten physical safety, we will take appropriate action to ensure the well-being of our guests, artists, and staff.
Park Map
View or download our park map for the locations of Ravinia’s venues, parking lots, restrooms, first aid station, chair/table rental pickup, Festival Shop, and in-park dining options.
About the Performance
Ravinia is grateful for media support from
More than just a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer, and accomplished songwriter, Bonnie Raitt has become an institution in American music. Named by Rolling Stone as both one of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” and one of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” with her 55+ year career, Raitt continues to epitomize what it means to stay creative, adventurous, and daring over the course of a life’s work.
“More than 50 years after the release of her first album, Raitt’s voice remains a subtle instrument: earthy with an ache around the edges. Its sly intimacy is, as always, a deep pleasure,” writes Fresh Air’s Ken Tucker. In her own words, Raitt has never felt more grateful that she can continue making music, keeping her crew working, connecting with her audience: “I’m really aware of how lucky I am and I feel like my responsibility is to get out there and say something fresh and new—for me and for the fans,” she says. “It’s really daunting not to repeat yourself, but I have to have something to say.”
Since the album’s release, Raitt has toured for audiences worldwide in North America, the UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia. This summer, she returns to Ravinia for an evening of classic hits and new favorites, giving us all “something to talk about!”
Playing the Carousel Stage at 6:30 p.m. is Charlieboy, an up-and-coming, genre-defying indie/art rock group from La Crosse, WI. Known for their intricate grooves, expressive vocals, and compelling choice of tones, the band has earned headlining spots at music festivals and sold out numerous live performances, where the experience has been dubbed a “religious experience” of “therapy rock.” Charlieboy has been building fast and steady momentum from their local scene into the Midwest and regions beyond since the release of their debut album, People Garden, a front-to-back indie rock foundation with more than 150K streams and honors as the Madison Area Music Awards Rock Album of the Year and a spot among Math Rock Times’s top 10 albums.
A multi-year guest at the Bitter Jester Music Festival, Charlieboy was named Runner-Up in the 2025 competition, out of nearly 100 bands. Alongside their own successes, the band has also partnered with the Grammys as the backing group to Carlie Hanson for the “Grammys Reimagined” YouTube series, and they backed Hanson at the BMO Pavilion during Summerfest 2024. Charlieboy’s sophomore album, Creature, a 10-track interpersonal display of complex emotions and sonically bubble-wrapped trauma, was released in March.
Program
6:30 PM – Carousel Stage
Charlieboy
(Bitter Jester Music Festival Competition 2025 Runner-Up)
7:30 PM – Hunter Pavilion
Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen
–Intermission–
Bonnie Raitt
Program subject to change
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