{"id":15211,"date":"2017-02-16T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:47:13","slug":"onerepublic-return-ravinia-bring-fitz-tantrums-james-arthur-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=15211","title":{"rendered":"OneRepublic Return To Ravinia And Bring Fitz &#038; The Tantrums and James Arthur To Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLAND PARK, IL \u2013 Multiplatinum, Grammy-nominated quintet\u00a0<strong>OneRepublic<\/strong>\u00a0announced today they will return to Ravinia for back-to-back shows on July 14 and 15 as part of their 2017 tour, featuring support from chart-topping group\u00a0<strong>Fitz &amp; The Tantrums<\/strong>\u00a0and opener\u00a0<strong>James Arthur<\/strong>, winner of series nine of Britain\u2019s\u00a0<em>The X Factor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>OneRepublic released their debut recording,\u00a0<em>Dreaming Out Loud<\/em>, in 2007. The album included the smash single \u201cApologize,\u201d which shattered digital sales and airplay records worldwide and received a Grammy nomination. The band\u2019s sophomore album, 2009\u2019s\u00a0<em>Waking Up<\/em>, produced three singles: \u201cAll the Right Moves,\u201d \u201cSecrets,\u201d and \u201cGood Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OneRepublic\u2019s third studio album,\u00a0<em>Native<\/em>, was released in March 2013 and produced the hit singles \u201cIf I Lose Myself,\u201d \u201cFeel Again,\u201d \u201cLove Runs Out,\u201d \u201cI Lived,\u201d and their biggest song to date, \u201cCounting Stars,\u201d which reached number one in 54 countries and has sold over 10 million downloads.\u00a0<em>Native<\/em>\u00a0sold over 5 million units worldwide. Their newest album,\u00a0<em>Oh My My<\/em>, featuring the hit singles \u201cWherever I Go,\u201d \u201cKids,\u201d and new single \u201cLet\u2019s Hurt Tonight,\u201d was released in the fall of 2016 on Mosley\/Interscope Records and debuted at number three on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Top 200 Albums chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fitz &amp; The Tantrums<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles\u2013based group Fitz &amp; The Tantrums have quickly grown from independent upstarts to bonafide hitmakers. Their current album, titled\u00a0<em>Fitz &amp; The Tantrums<\/em>\u00a0(on the Elektra label), was released last summer and features their biggest hit to date, \u201cHandClap.\u201d The RIAA-certified gold single has already made the top five on both the Hot AC and Alternative radio charts, and is currently ascending the Top 40 radio charts. Fitz &amp; The Tantrums\u2019 eponymous album follows their breakout major label debut, 2013\u2019s\u00a0<em>More Than Just a Dream<\/em>, which featured back-to-back number-one Alternative radio singles in the platinum track \u201cThe Walker\u201d and the gold \u201cOut of My League.\u201d Both singles also enjoyed top-15 success on Hot AC. The band has performed countless sold-out headlining shows and is always a standout at music festivals around the world, including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and more. The band\u2019s first full-length album, 2010\u2019s\u00a0<em>Pickin\u2019 Up the Pieces<\/em>\u00a0(released on indie label Dangerbird Records), spent 73 weeks on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Heatseekers chart, peaking at number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Arthur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Arthur was crowned the winner of\u00a0<em>The X Factor<\/em>\u00a0UK\u2019s ninth series in 2012. His debut single, \u201cImpossible,\u201d became the biggest\u00a0<em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>winner\u2019s song of all time, selling more than 1 million downloads and topping charts for several weeks. The buzz around the Middlesbrough-born singer was different to previous champions. He was regarded as the show\u2019s first credible artist; Arthur not only possessed showmanlike qualities with an incredible, distinctive voice, but he could back up his stage presence with natural songwriting ability. Following two years away from the spotlight, Arthur returned last fall with his single \u201cSay You Won\u2019t Let Go.\u201d The song shot straight to number one in his native UK, where it remained for three consecutive weeks. Last fall, Arthur released his second album, entitled\u00a0<em>Back from the Edge<\/em>, which again went straight to number one in the UK. \u201cSay You Won\u2019t Let Go\u201d has topped iTunes charts in more than 20 countries and has since gone on to sell more than 3 million downloads and tally more than 350 million streams on Spotify and a quarter of a billion total views on Vevo\/YouTube around the globe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT RAVINIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ravinia, located just north of Chicago, is North America\u2019s oldest and most diverse music festival, presenting over 140 different events every summer, including the annual residency of the nation\u2019s finest orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As a nonprofit organization, Ravinia provides arts programs for over 75,000 people in communities within Cook and Lake Counties through its Reach*Teach*Play educations programs. Ravinia\u2019s Steans Music Institute is a summer music conservatory which awards 60\u201370 fully paid fellowships each year to the most talented young professional musicians from around the world to work with an esteemed faculty and the headliners who frequent the festival.<\/p>\n<p>For information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ravinia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravinia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLAND PARK, IL \u2013 Multiplatinum, Grammy-nominated quintet\u00a0OneRepublic\u00a0announced today they will return to Ravinia for back-to-back shows on July 14 and 15 as part of their 2017 tour, featuring support from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-breaking-news","category-this-just-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}