2024 Ravinia Festival: Star-Studded Lineup Revealed, Tickets on Sale Soon
Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor
The 2024 Ravinia Festival lineup features a who’s who of R&B, jazz and Hip-hop artists. The packed summer lineup features over 100 concerts and will run from June 7 to Sept. 15.
The lineup, which will include several debut artists, was announced earlier this week.
Sixty acts will play at Ravinia for the first time, including Big Boi of OutKast, Meshell Ndegeocello and Samara Joy.
Returning favorites include Mavis Staples, James Taylor, The Roots, Trombone Shorty, Norah Jones, and Joffrey Ballet.
Tacuma R. Roeback is the Managing Editor for the Chicago Defender.
His journalism, non-fiction, and fiction have appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tennessean, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Phoenix New Times, HipHopDX.com, Okayplayer.com, The Shadow League, SAGE: The Encyclopedia of Identity, Downstate Story, Tidal Basin Review, and Reverie: Midwest African American Literature.
He is an alumnus of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Chicago State University, and Florida A&M University.