Tickets for the 2026 Ravinia Festival season go on sale Thursday morning, with sales opening at 8 a.m. on the Ravinia website. The season will bring Paul Simon, Chance the Rapper, Ricky Martin, Brandi Carlile and Hugh Jackman to Highland Park, along with Miranda Lambert, Alabama Shakes, Rod Stewart and Ziggy Marley.
The concerts will run from June through September in the redesigned Hunter Pavilion, and this year's performances in the upgraded space are set to begin on July 11. Ravinia's lineup also includes the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which is returning for the 90th anniversary of its Ravinia residency.
The on-sale date lands as the festival continues a $75 million renovation of its whole venue, a plan Ravinia Festival revealed last February. That makes the 2026 season more than a routine summer booking cycle: it is one of the first full glimpses of how the rebuilt site will be used once the upgraded pavilion is fully in play.
The timing also puts pressure on fans who want seats early, because the best-known names in the lineup are being offered at the same moment Ravinia is asking audiences to imagine the festival in a new form. The answer to the question hanging over this summer is no longer whether the season will happen, but how quickly the renovated Ravinia will fill once the tickets are released.