Grant Park Music Festival announces 2026 lineup, featuring Ben Folds and ample American music

The free summertime classical series in Millennium Park will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with work from dozens of ...
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Grant Park Music Festival announces 2026 season celebrating America’s 250th birthday

The 2026 season runs June 10 through Aug. 15, anchored at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, with select ...
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Guerrero Plots All-American Soundtrack For Grant Park’s Big Birthday Season

As the United States heads toward its 250th birthday, Giancarlo Guerrero is getting ready to throw a long, loud musical party ...

In 2026, Grant Park Music Festival commemorates the United States’ founding and bids adieu to its leader

The free, Millennium Park-based festival’s programming skews toward contemporary and American music, a commitment redoubled ...
WBEZ

CEO Paul Winberg to step down from Grant Park Music Fest next spring after bolstering classical series

Paul Winberg, president and chief executive officer of the Grant Park Music Festival, announced Wednesday that he will retire in spring 2026. Winberg, 63, is credited with tripling the festival’s ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: Guerrero and the Grant Park Music Festival close the season with a rousing ‘Carmina Burana’

Highbrow and lowbrow. Sacred and profane. Closing its 2025 season on Aug. 15 and 16, the Grant Park Music Festival argued that the distance between those two poles is rarely as great as it appears.
Daily Herald

Grant Park Music Festival caps summer 2025 season with ‘Carmina Burana’ Aug. 15-16

Grant Park Music Festival Artistic Director/Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the final concerts of the Festival’s summer 2025 season at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, ...