{"id":41335,"date":"2020-08-25T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=41335"},"modified":"2020-08-25T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:00:34","slug":"ravinia-tvs-ninth-episode-airs-this-friday-august-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=41335","title":{"rendered":"RAVINIA TV\u2019S NINTH EPISODE AIRS THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAVINIA TV\u2019S NINTH EPISODE AIRS THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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HIGHLAND PARK, IL<\/strong> \u2013 The ninth episode of\u00a0RaviniaTV\u00a0airs this Friday, August 28, at 7 p.m. CDT on Ravinia\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest episode is headlined by\u00a0The Blooze Brothers<\/strong>, who take the \u201cChicago\u2019s Own\u201d spotlight for an exclusive mini-concert on the festival\u2019s main stage, paying their signature homage to the cult-classic film, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2020. At the top of the show is an interview with\u00a0Jennifer Ringo<\/strong>, who, having led a three-decade career as an operatic soprano, shares her singing and diction expertise, as well as her approach to connecting with language, on the faculty of Ravinia\u2019s Steans Music Institute.<\/p>\n

The episode will also bring viewers a \u201cTOPical 5\u201d countdown of the top 5 ladies of soul, picked and presented by\u00a0Samantha Thomas<\/strong>\u00a0of WVON 1690 AM\u2019s evening show \u201cSamantha Is TALKing,\u201d as well as the third part of a recurring comedy sketch by\u00a0The Comic Thread\u00a0<\/strong>and Bitter Jester Studios, featuring the WGN Midday News crew as special guests, and an exclusive performance from home by acclaimed pianist\u00a0Lara Downes<\/strong>, who was to have performed two concerts at Ravinia this summer as part of the festival\u2019s celebration of women\u2019s voices.<\/p>\n

A spotlight on Ravinia scholarship recipient\u00a0Joshua Redfield\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0100 Black Men of Chicago<\/strong>\u00a0showcases one of the organizations throughout the region that the festival works with to create access to music and education alongside its own Reach Teach Play programs. This marks the third year Ravinia has awarded a scholarship to a student through 100 Black Men.<\/p>\n

New episodes of the Exelon-sponsored weekly series are released every Friday at 7 p.m. CDT on Ravinia\u2019s YouTube channel and Facebook page.<\/p>\n

FOR MORE INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

YouTube: www.youtube.com\/raviniafestival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAVINIA TV\u2019S NINTH EPISODE AIRS THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28   HIGHLAND PARK, IL \u2013 The ninth episode of\u00a0RaviniaTV\u00a0airs this Friday, August 28, at 7 p.m. CDT on Ravinia\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook page. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41336,"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":[39,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-features","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}