First Grant Park Music Festival

Date: July 1, 1935 • Location: Chicago Loop, United States

The first Grant Park Music Festival was held in Chicago's Grant Park.

The Grant Park Music Festival is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in the US.