Winnetka Music Festival VIP Experience
VIP accommodations at Winnetka Music Festival are one-of-a-kind 🌟 We’ve elevated every part of the fest experience, including:
- Exclusive seating for main stage + a premier raised VIP porch
- Catered dining and snacks from delicious local restaurants
- Complimentary VIP beverages including curated selections from Freshie Tequila, Mile High Spirits - Denver's Distillery, Ravinia Brewing Company, Four Roses Bourbon, and more.
- Ample seating & tables
- Indoor bathrooms
- Air-conditioned quiet haven
+ much more! Experience VIP for yourself this weekend. Limited tickets available at winnetkamusicfestival.com
VIP is made possible by our fest partner William Blair.
ONE WEEK AWAY! We’re so close to the fest and will be holding one final pop-up box office tomorrow. Stop by the Winnetka Farmer’s Market to purchase single-day tickets with no added online service fees. Details below. This is officially last call, so if you can’t make it in-person tomorrow we HIGHLY recommend purchasing advance tickets online this weekend 🎟 See you soon!
Saturday, June 10
Winnetka Farmers Market (754 Elm St, Winnetka, IL 60093)
10:30am - 12:30pm
Single-day tickets only
A little sunshine for your Monday morning ☀️ Meet our Saturday main stage headliner Michael Franti and Spearhead. Franti is a globally recognized musician, activist, hotel owner, and award-winning filmmaker revered for his high-energy live shows, inspiring music, devotion to health and wellness, worldwide philanthropic efforts and the power of optimism. Throughout his multi-decade career, Franti has earned three Billboard No. 1’s with triumphantly hopeful hits “Sound of Sunshine,” “Say Hey (I Love You)” and “I Got You,” as well as six Top 30 Hot AC singles, 10 Top 25 AAA Singles and three Billboard Top 5 Rock Albums. Spearhead’s 12th studio album Follow Your Heart, released in June 2022 and debuted at No. 2 on the iTunes Pop Chart behind Harry Styles. Grab single-day tickets to see Michael Franti & Spearhead when they go on-sale this Friday at 10am CT. Check back on socials and our site for the link to buy!
Bringing it back to the heartland 🌾 An Iowa-bred country singer/songwriter with a strong instinct for storytelling, Hailey Whitters spent the early part of the 2010s paying her Nashville dues, gaining momentum with her 2015 debut then finding further success writing songs for Martina McBride and Little Big Town. In 2019, after years of work, she accumulated significant buzz thanks to singles like "Ten Year Town" and "The Days," both of which appeared on her breakthrough 2020 sophomore album The Dream, which received a deluxe reissue the following year. Whitters' third studio effort, the Billboard-charting Raised, appeared in 2022. She has received critical acclaim from media outlets as varied as The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Garden & Gun, and Stereogum, which ranked The Dream’s deluxe reissue (Living the Dream) the best country album of the year. Hailey racked up 75 million global artist streams, was named the inaugural Opry NextStage Artist of 2021, and was nominated for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards. Don’t miss this Grammy-nominated songwriter when she takes the stage on June 16!
Meet The Wallflowers 🎤 For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands –a band whose sound walked a tightrope between the rootsy and accessible end of alternative rock and the straightforward, arena-friendly sound of acts like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. They broke through with their sophomore album, 1996's multi-platinum Bringing Down the Horse (featuring the hit single “One Headlight”), while 2005's Rebel, Sweetheart saw them adding extra muscle to their sound. After a nine-year hiatus from the studio, The Wallflowers made a confident comeback with 2021's Exit Wounds, produced by Butch Walker and released on New West Records. Watch Dylan and the band perform "The Dive Bar In My Heart" here, then catch them on our mainstage Friday, June 16. Single-day tickets on-sale 4/14.
SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ Winnetka Music Festival returns to Chicago’s North Shore on Father's Day Weekend Friday, June 16 + Saturday, June 17 for two days of incredible live music.
Our first wave of artist announcements is coming your way on Monday, March 13! Sign up for our mailing list below for a first look at the lineup next week, plus exclusive presale access to weekend passes.
Last year's fest SOLD OUT so be sure to tag your festival friends below, buy early, and stay in the know on all things WMF!
https://winnetkamusicfestival.com
Missed out on WMF this year? Here is what some of our fest alumnis have to say about the 2022 Winnetka Music Festival!
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What are YOU into? Family? Nature? Workout? Movies? @paigedooley.compass has tips on what to do in our town before you come to the fest - she has something for everyone including you!
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Thank you to our festival sponsor Paige Dooley - Compass Realty, one of the top realtors in Winnetka - who sells all kinds of houses to all kinds of people! Here’s a special one…💜
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🎸If you love the Winnetka Music Fest then you have to check out Out of Space !! Out of Space is an incredible concert series hosted by Evanston SPACE that is a must see this summer! Also, a special thank you to SPACE for curating this year’s Chapel Stage at the Winnetka Music Festival! The big day is less than a week away - see you all on June 18th! 🎉
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