Ravinia 2022, Issue 1

EBRU YILDIZ (RODGAB) PAVILION 8:00 PM THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero have been playing together since the mid-1990s when they were members of the Mexican thrash-metal band Terra Acida. Both were raised on a musical feast of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath, but the eureka moment came with hearing Metallica’s Mas- ter of Puppets , which was their gateway to the world of Megadeth, Slayer, and Pantera. When Terra Acida split, Rodrigo and Gabrie- la decided to go traveling with just a suitcase and two acoustic guitars. They arrived in Ire- land, having heard the country was a good place for musicians. Speaking no English, they took to busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street to make ends meet. Here they met Damien Rice, himself embarking on his solo career, and he invited them to open at one of his key early headline shows. From this beginning, their reputation as top musicians—Rodrigo with a faster-than-lightning lead guitar and Gabriela with her unique rhythmic strumming-and-drumming style—started to spread across the country. Following a successful live album in 2004, their eponymous debut studio album, produced by John Leckie of Radiohead fame, was released by Rubyworks in February 2006 and quickly hit the top of the Irish national charts. Since headlining the Jazz World stage at Glastonbury in 2007, Rodrigo y Gabriela have established themselves on global stages, selling out the Hollywood Bowl and the Red Rocks Amphitheatre as recently as 2018, as well as Royal Albert Hall in London, Le Zenith in Paris, and Radio City Music Hall in New York in addition to venues in Australia, Japan, and Europe. Following the release of 2009’s 11:11 , Rodrigo y Gabriela contributed to the soundtracks of the films Puss in Boots and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and collab- orated with the artist C.U.B.A. on 2012’s Area 52 . Their fourth studio album , 9 Dead Alive , landed in 2014, and they secured their first Grammy Award with 2019’s Mettavolution . Most recently they released the EPs Mettal (with blistering takes on their early influences) and Jazz (featuring cinematic reworkings of songs by Kamasi Washington, Snarky Puppy. and Astor Piazzolla). Ro- drigo y Gabriela first played at Ravinia in 2010 and are making their first return to the festival. PAVILION 7:30 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022 JACKSON BROWNE JACKSON BROWNE Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne began his career in the mid-’60s, performing and re- cording a handful of his songs with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Signed to a publishing arm of Elektra Records, his reputation as a song- writer continued to grow through the suc- cess such artists as Linda Ronstadt and The Byrds had with his songs. By the end of 1971, Browne had been signed to David Geffen’s Asylum Records, and his eponymous debut album was released the following spring. Im- mediately “Doctor My Eyes” became a top-10 hit, and shortly thereafter The Eagles soared to popularity with “Take It Easy,” which he co-wrote. His third album, Late for the Sky (1974), marked a significant expansion in his audience, peaking at number 14 on Billboard ’s charts, where the previous two hadn’t broken into the top 40. The Pretender (1976) climbed to number five, and the follow-up live record Running on Empty rose to number three with the hit singles “Running on Empty” and “Stay/The Load-Out.” Browne’s next studio album, Hold Out (1980), became his first number-one album, and Lawyers in Love (1983) added further hit singles to his catalogue. That album began to showcase a social consciousness that came to the fore on Lives in the Balance (1986). Browne’s latest albums of new material are Love Is Strange (2010), which renewed a longstanding collaboration with David Lindley; Standing in the Breach (2014); and last’s summer’s Downhill from Everywhere , which brought him his eighth Grammy nomina- tion. Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007, and has also been the recipient of such social justice awards as Duke University’s LEAF Award, the John Steinbeck Award, and both the Chapin-World Hunger Year and NARM Harry Chapin Humanitarian Awards. Jackson Browne made his first appearance at Ravinia in 1977 and returns tonight for his eighth season. RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE 25