Peregrinations » Ravinia http://www.halpawluk.com/blog Road tripping Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Summertime in the (2nd) city. Again. http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/2009/08/summertime-in-the-2nd-city-again/ http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/2009/08/summertime-in-the-2nd-city-again/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:12:35 +0000 Hal http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/?p=210 Look at that crowd for the Pat Benatar and Blondie concert at Ravinia on Sunday!  (The background music is the opening group, The Donnas). [links open in a new window]  [clip is 24 seconds long]

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Incredible!

Everyone brings a picnic and libations of their choice then sets up on the grass.  The setups have gotten pretty competitive.   Those are real candles, folks.  And when they burned out later, there were replacements!

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The only potential problem was a 60% chance of rain but it missed us.

Security, on the other hand, didn’t miss me and my camera so all I’ve got is a few seconds of Pat Benatar on stage [18 sec]

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and just a sound clip for Blondie [14 sec]

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It was all terrific!

And Monday was another Botanic Garden freebie, the latin sounds of Fernandez and Kimball.  This is slightly longer than the usual clip and will take longer to load but worth waiting for.  [1m 19 sec]

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