Ravinia 2026 Issue 6

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Decamping from Mexico for sunny San Jose, CA, when he was barely a teenager, Jorge Hernández, together with three of his younger brothers—Hernán, Eduardo, and Raúl—and cousin Oscar Lara, initially traveled north in search of jobs to support their family back home. However, in forming the band Los Tigres del Norte, they found much more than steady work as musicians, quickly earning a voracious following with their original songs emphasizing contemporary social issues and other themes that spoke to the experience of Mexican-Amer- icans. e band began playing in parks and on local radio broadcasts once the quintet arrived in California in the late s, but they were soon given the opportunity to record their cor- ridos and quickly tapped into a massive audi- ence with “Contrabando y Traición,” a ballad about a woman who shoots her drug-running lover and takes o with the money. e song became so popular that it inspired a telenovela about the ctitious protagonist. Always socially conscious, Los Tigres set themselves apart from other corrido performers by never glorifying the criminals in their ballads. Los Tigres’ ascent to fame turned their genre of norteño music, previously localized to the Mexican-American border, into an international sensation, with Los Tigres as its foremost icon. e band has also since been named one of the most in- uential Latin artists of all time by Billboard , having contributed such modern touchstones as “Jaula de Oro,” which tells of life in the “gild- ed cage” of the United States and laments the erosion of Mexican culture among the children of immigrants. In addition to having won sev- eral Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards across their vast discography, Los Tigres have been named BMI Icons and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In , for the th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s legendary At Fol- som Prison album, Los Tigres became the rst and only musicians since then to record there— including a special translation of “Folsom Pris- on Blues”—and they featured in a documentary to illuminate the experiences of Latine people incarcerated in the US. Los Tigres del Norte rst played Ravinia in and returned to headline Fiesta Ravinia – . HUNTERPAVILION 7:00 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 , 2026 10TH FIESTA RAVINIA LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE LUCÍA † Lucía – – Los Tigres del Norte † Ravinia debut 6:00 PM, CAROUSEL STAGE BALLET FOLKLÓRICO 2:00–6:00 PM • Character photo-op in the Northern Trust Tent Cast of characters rotates throughout the a ernoon 2:00–2:45 PM • ree standing shows in the Martin eatre Plaza 3:00–4:30 PM • Four walking shows around the park on each half-hour 5:00–6:00 PM • ree standing shows in the Martin eatre Plaza GALLI LUCHA LIBRE INTERNATIONALEWRESTLING SISTEMA RAVINIA ORCHESTRA with Reach Teach Play student musicians 2:00–6:00 PM, AROUND THE PARK 2:30–5:00 PM, SOUTH LAWN 4:00–4:30 PM, CAROUSEL STAGE RAVINIAMAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 23 , 2026 74 UMLE