Ravinia 2019, Issue 2, Week 4

A MESSAGE FROM WINTRUST Wintrust is proud to support Ravinia Festival and the joy it brings to so many during the summer season. At Wintrust, we believe in supporting local organizations, such as Ravinia, that help make a positive difference in the communities where our customers and employees live and work. We are an enthusiastic patron of the arts in Chicago and its surrounding neighborhoods and are proud to serve as a Ravinia corporate sponsor again this year. Wintrust is a financial holding company providing commercial and community banking, wealth man- agement and treasury management services, and mortgage origination. Wintrust Community Banks have more than 150 locations around the Chicagoland, southern Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana areas, including in Ravinia’s neighborhood in Highland Park, Glencoe, Deerfield, Lake Forest, North- brook, and Winnetka, to name a few. At a Wintrust Community Bank, you get the resources of a big bank with the exceptional service and community focus that can only come from a local community bank. We value our partnership and are pleased to join Ravinia in welcoming you here tonight and to the 2019 season. 7:30 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019 PAVILION JILLIAN JACQUELINE † –Intermission– LITTLE BIG TOWN † Ravinia debut LITTLE BIG TOWN Georgia natives Kimberly Roads and Kar- en Fairchild first sang together in college, and when they reunited in Nashville in the late ’90s with the addition of Arkansans Jimi Westbrook and Phil Sweet, Little Big Town was born. The quartet quickly cemented the signature sound of its four-part vocal harmonies and released its eponymous debut album in 2002 on Monument Records, the same label that had produced the Dixie Chicks’ early successes. Little Big Town entered Billboard ’s country chart at number 40 thanks to the radio popularity of the singles “Don’t Waste My Time” and “Everything Chang- es.” Clint Black’s Equity Music Group picked up Little Big Town for a new single, “Boondocks,” and the ensuing album, The Road to Here , which topped the indie chart on the strength of that platinum single. “Bring It on Home,” the album’s second single, marked the group’s first top-five country hit. A Place to Land followed in 2007, cracking the country top-10 and producing the popular singles “I’m with the Band,” “Fine Line,” and “Good Lord Willing.” Little Big Town made its major-label debut in 2010 with The Reason Why and their third big radio hit, “Little White Church,” which led to the even wider popu- lar embrace of Tornado in 2012. Its lead single “Pontoon” topped the country charts and made number 22 on Billboard ’s Hot 100, earning the group its first Grammy in 2013. Little Big Town followed up with Pain Killer (2014), featuring the hits “Day Drinking” and “Girl Crush,” its best single to date and its second Grammy win- ner. The foursome then teamed up with Pharrell Williams as producer and co-writer for 2016’s Wanderlust , but were soon back in the studio again working on 2017’s The Breaker , which featured the Taylor Swift–penned “Better Man,” their third Grammy-winning song. That same year, they held the first-ever residency at the Ry- man Auditorium. A new album is in the works and has already been teased by the singles “Sum- mer Fever” and, most recently, “The Daughters.” Tonight Little Big Town is making its first return to Ravinia since its 2015 festival debut. RAVINIA MAGAZINE | JUNE 24 – JUNE 30, 2019 94