
Ben Folds with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra

Morgan Ulyat and Marie Roth of Ravinia Festival PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF RAVINIA FESTIVAL

Marilyn Salzar and Christine Taylor Conda of Ravinia Festival
Ravinia Festival and the Ravinia Associates Board held its annual Music Matters fundraising dinner, auction, and concert, raising more than $600,000 for the festival’s Reach Teach Play education programs. Under the umbrella Reach Teach Play, Ravinia’s education programs annually reach over 75,000 students, families, and community members in Lake and Cook counties. The evening began with a cocktail reception on the festival’s South Lawn sponsored by US Bank, followed by a live auction, a garden-themed dinner, and a concert sponsored by Evergreen Real Estate Group, which featured genre-bending artist Ben Folds with the Ravinia
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President and CEO of Ravinia Jeff Haydon and wife, Kathryn Haydon

Jonathan Marks, Heide Bellinger, Roxana Underwood and Kristin Heger