Ravinia 2019, Issue 2, Week 4

JILLIAN JACQUELINE Born in Chester Springs, PA, Jillian Jacqueline began singing at an early age, quickly jumping from local coffee shops to Kenny Rogers’s Broad- way holiday revue Christmas from the Heart to that country legend’s touring show. After step- ping away from the spotlight to finish school, Jacqueline joined the Nashville music scene as a singer and songwriter. In 2013 she cut six tracks with songwriter-producer Richard Marx, who the following year produced her breakout sin- gle, “Overdue,” featuring harmony vocals from Vince Gill. Racking up over a million streams with the track, Jacqueline began crafting an EP and signed with Big Loud Records, which re- leased the widely buzzed Side A EP in 2016 along with a new single, “Reasons.” While tallying tens of millions more streams with the new collec- tion, she earned praise from the likes of NPR and American Songwriter , Rolling Stone named her one of its “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know,” and she became the first country art- ist named to Vevo’s “dscvr” Artists to Watch list. She’s also been featured among Pandora’s “Country Artists to Watch 2018” and CMT’s “Next Women of Country” and “18 for 2018” lists, and she recently made her late-night TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers . Jacque- line has been on tour with Thomas Rhett, Brett Eldredge, Dwight Yoakam, Ryan Adams, Billy Currington, Jordan Davis, Devin Dawson, and most recently Kip Moore. Last year she teamed up with Keith Urban for “If I Were You,” the first single off Jacqueline’s new EP, Side B , which also features the hot tracks “Sad Girls” and “Tragic.” Jillian Jacqueline is making her Ravinia debut. 7:30 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2019 PAVILION 25 YEARS AND COUNTING MARGARET GLASPY † –Intermission– COUNTING CROWS † Ravinia debut COUNTING CROWS Shortly after its formation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Counting Crows was thrust into the limelight when the group filled in for Van Mor- rison at the 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in- duction ceremony. The group released its debut album, August and Everything After , later that same year, featuring the immensely popular single “Mr. Jones,” which soared into the top five of Billboard ’s Hot 100 Airplay and Top 40 charts. The album quickly reached seven-times platinum sales and also catapulted into the top five. Lead vocalist and songwriter Adam Duritz confronted Counting Crows’ apprehension with its newfound fame head-on in the group’s 1996 follow-up, Recovering the Satellites , which, per- haps ironically, became its first number-one hit, again capturing the airwaves with the single “A Long December.” Following the platinum live album Across a Wire: Live in New York City , Counting Crows returned to the studio for This Desert Life (1999)—which featured its first Hot 100 single, “Hanginaround”—and Hard Candy (2002). The latter featured a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” that was later re-recorded for the movie Two Weeks Notice with guest vocalist Vanessa Carlton. In 2003 Counting Crows released its first “greatest hits” album, Films About Ghosts , which was reissued the following year to include its Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe–nominated contribution to the Shrek 2 soundtrack, “Accidentally in Love.” The group’s 2008 concept double album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings , extended its streak of top-10 studio albums to over a decade and won critical acclaim for the contrast between its driving first half and mel- low second. Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) , released in 2012, covers many of the Crows’ influences and contemporaries, a theme extended through the live disc Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow . Late last year, Counting Crows decamped to a recording studio for the first time since 2014’s Somewhere Under Wonderland for a new—but the first officially released—version of the title track from its debut album, performed with the London Symphony Orchestra. Counting Crows first played Ravinia in 2010 and returns tonight for its third show at the festival. JUNE 24 – JUNE 30, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 95