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FREE Concerts on the Hill – Celebrating 50 Years!
June 6 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm CDT
FREE!
Join us for our
🌳🎵 50th Season of FREE Concerts on the Hill! 🎵🌳
Thursdays at 6:30 pm
June 6 – August 29, 2024
✨ Come relax in the scenic park to enjoy
quality, family entertainment on the big bandshell
along the waterway downtown Joliet.
🌳 Bring chairs and blankets for hill seating.
Concessions and cash bar available. Picnic baskets welcome.
Joliet American Legion Band & Director Mike Fiske
39 National & 52 State titles
The band has performing here since “Concerts in the Rough” began in 1974
They will be performing for the
50th season’s grand opening concert on June 6, 2024
💞 If you have a special memory of the concerts,
fill out a “Share a Memory” card when you’re here
and we’ll post it for all to enjoy!
June 6
Season Opening
Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra
Joliet American Legion Band
June 13
Seussical Musical Preview by Bicentennial Park Theatre
Take Notice (old school R&B/ funk cover band)
June 20
Fine Tunes Center for the Arts
(student and teacher musical showcase, pop to alternative, cover and originals)
June 27
Cloggin’ Craze Dancers
Stacy Sienko (melodic singer-pianist)
July 11
Veterans’ Night
Midwest Crossroads Chorus Sweet Adelines
Joliet American Legion Band
July 18
Heathers Musical Preview by The Joliet Drama Guild
Dan Dougherty Band (pop/ rock/ alternative)
July 25
Polka Party Night
Eddie Korosa Jr & Boys & Girl from IL (polka)
Frank Rossi (sounds of Sinatra)
August 1
Special Opening Act (TBA)
Sam Burns Jazz Ensemble
August 8
“Women In Action” Musical Encore
(hit songs by women thru the decades – encore from park’s Women’s History Month performance)
August 15
“Drunken Donut” Night
Alex Ziech from the Joliet hot spot hosts variety of local musical acts (rock/ alternative, covers and originals)
August 22
Country Night
Silverstrings (older country music, oldies, bluegrass, covers and originals)
August 29
50th Season Finale
Joliet Township High School Orchestra & Central Band
Joliet America Legion Band
Come early to get a spot on the hill!
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A few gems from our scrapbook:
⏳ We started as “Concerts in the Rough” in 1974
“Bicentennial Park site budding”
Joliet Herald-News
June 23, 1974
⏳ Pouring of the concrete pad for
“Concerts in the Rough”
Joliet Herald-News
May 17, 1975
⏳ Voices of Zion
(Director Frank Stewart, choir member Gwendolyn Youngblood)
“Concerts in the Rough”
Joliet Herald-News
August 8, 1975
⏳ Huge ’76 flag along bluff
“Concerts in the Rough”
Joliet Herald-News
July 8, 1976
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