Grammy Award–Winning Rock Band Evanescence and Acclaimed Billboard Award–winning Electronic Violinist, Lindsey Stirling To Make Ravinia Debuts This Summer

Mar 06, 2018 James Currie Breaking News, Music News, This Just In 0

HIGHLAND PARK, IL – Transcendent, two-time Grammy Award–winning rock band Evanescence and acclaimed Billboard Award–winning electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling will make their Ravinia debuts on July 10. Both artists’ shows will be accompanied by a full orchestra, highlighting both acts’ musicality and their incredible performance abilities that continue to blow fans away. The two artists recently collaborated on the song “Hi-Lo” from the latest Evanescence album, Synthesis, which features a virtuosic violin solo by Stirling.

Donors to the not-for-profit Ravinia Festival will be able to request tickets beginning March 20. Tickets for Evanescence and Stirling’s Ravinia stop will go on sale to the public on May 8. Ravinia will announce its full summer lineup on March 14.

ABOUT EVANESCENCE
Formed in the mid-’90s, the two-time Grammy Award–winning group Evanescence has three albums under its belt. The band was integral in establishing a global, critical mass for women in rock. The group’s 2003 landmark debut album Fallen laid the foundation; spending 43 weeks on Billboard’s top 10, the album sold more than 17 million copies worldwide and was certified 7x platinum in the United States. Global hit “Bring Me to Life” (featuring guest vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 Stones) reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and marked its first UK number-one. The song also became the official theme for WWE No Way Out 2003. The equally popular “My Immortal” peaked at number seven in the US and UK, and both songs were featured on the soundtrack for the action movie Daredevil. The album produced four singles total, including “Going Under” (number five on the US Modern Rock chart, number eight in the UK) and “Everybody’s Fool” (number 36 on the US Modern Rock chart, number 23 in the UK). Fallen is one of only eight albums in the history of the chart to spend at least a year in Billboard’s top 50; it spent 104 weeks on the Billboard 200 and is number 32 on the chart’s “Greatest of All Time.”

ABOUT LINDSEY STIRLING
Lindsey Stirling remains fearless enough to always dream big. In the more than five years since the release of her 2012 eponymous debut album, the electronic music impresario, violinist, dancer, and artist quietly and humbly became one of the 21st century’s most innovative stars by clinging to her groundbreaking vision of cinematic violin-driven electronic music. After bowing at number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Dance/Electronic Album chart, holding the top slot on the Classical Album chart for 21 consecutive weeks, and receiving a Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Album, her sophomore opus Shatter Me would not only garner an RIAA Gold certification, but it would rank as the number-two dance/electronic album and number-one classical album on Billboard’s 2015 year-end charts. Attracting over 10 million subscribers and two billion–plus views on YouTube, that same year Stirling held the number-four slot on Forbes’s yearly YouTube artists list, which made her the highest-ranked female.

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