Celebrate the Fab Four and the iconic band’s connection to the Prairie State with a special appearance by The Reunion Beatles Fantasy Tribute Band in a free outdoor concert on the grounds of our beautiful Union Square Park, adjacent to historic Union Station.
What if circumstances had been different? What if all four former Beatles were alive and well ? What if they decided to do a reunion concert that featured many of the greatest hits of The Beatles plus the best of their solo work too? What would it have looked and sounded like?
GET BACK! THE CONCERT THAT NEVER WAS...IS!
The Reunion Beatles Fantasy Tribute features the world's greatest veteran Beatles look AND sound alike artists performing a tribute to John, Paul, George & Ringo like none that you've ever seen.
The Musicianship! The Chemistry! And Those Amazing, Timeless, Wonderful Songs!!
The show will start at 7:00 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy an exciting evening of “what could’ve been.” Come early! We’ll have food and drinks available for purchase beginning at 6:00 p.m..
Park FREE in the ALPLM parking ramp at the corner of 6th and Madison.
The concert is presented by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum with community support from Green Audi and 102.5 FM The Lake.
Did you know? Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records was the original distributor of Beatles records in the United States. Vee-Jay’s releases were at first unsuccessful, but quickly became huge hits once the British Invasion off in early 1964, selling 2.6 million Beatles singles in a single month.
Did you know? Once the Beatles success was solidified in North America, Capitol Records – the American subsidiary of the Beatles European record label – took over the Beatles distribution and built a record pressing plant in Jacksonville, Illinois to help meet the surge in demand for Beatles records that followed the Fab Four to the United States. The plant pressed albums for forty years under an ever-evolving number of formats from 12-inch records to 8-track tapes and cassettes to CDs for a wide range of artists – including Pink Floyd, Prince, the B-52s and many more – before closing in 2004.
Did you know? In September 1963, almost no one in America had heard of the Beatles, and certainly no one knew their lead guitarist, George Harrison. That’s when he visited his sister Louise and her family in Benton, in deep southern Illinois. During his visit, he was invited to sit in and play with a local band during a gig at a VFW Hall. Imagine everyone’s surprise a few months later when they saw the skinny kid from England with the funny haircut join his bandmates on the “Ed Sullivan Show” to launch the British Invasion.