Lucy Dacus is making her orchestral debut with the Chicago Philharmonic. It's a full circle moment.
<p>In 2016, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus made her debut at Lollapalooza, in Grant Park. Then just 21, she was an early, first-day act on the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lollapalooza/2024/07/28/lollapalooza-2024-3-big-reasons-to-discover-the-bmi-stage" target="_blank" ><u>BMI Stage</u></a>, one of the festival’s smallest — a slot that has become dubbed the “Lady Gaga” slot, after the pop icon performed there the year before her breakthrough album “The Fame.”</p><p>“I was super nervous,” Dacus recounted in a video call from her home in Los Angeles.
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<p>In 2016, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus made her debut at Lollapalooza, in Grant Park. Then just 21, she was an early, first-day act on the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lollapalooza/2024/07/28/lollapalooza-2024-3-big-reasons-to-discover-the-bmi-stage" target="_blank" ><u>BMI Stage</u></a>, one of the festival’s smallest — a slot that has become dubbed the “Lady Gaga” slot, after the pop icon performed there the year before her breakthrough album “The Fame.”</p><p>“I was super nervous,” Dacus recounted in a video call from her home in Los Angeles. “I lied about how big my crew was to get my friends in. I was like, ‘Yeah, this is my assistant, this is my other assistant, and this is my stylist.’”</p><p>Dacus, who went on to perform at Pitchfork and multiple times in Chicago on tours, is now shaking off nerves ahead of another Downtown performance, timed almost exactly 10 years to the day from her first Lollapalooza set.</p><p>This one, though, takes place on a stage that’s a little bigger: the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, where she will appear July 19 and perform orchestrated selections backed by the Chicago Philharmonic.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-b80000" name="module-b80000"></a> <div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><b>Lucy Dacus and the Chicago Philharmonic, with local opener</b><a class="Link" href="https://www.wbez.org/music/2026/02/06/chicago-indie-rockers-ratboys-release-latest-album-singing-to-an-empty-chair" target="_blank" ><b><u> Ratboys</u></b></a><br><br><b>When:</b> July 19; admission begins at 5:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m.<br><br><b>Where:</b> Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, 201 E.
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- <p>In 2016, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus made her debut at Lollapalooza, in Grant Park. Then just 21, she was an early, first-day act on the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lollapalooza/2024/07/28/lollapalooza-2024-3-big-reasons-to-discover-the-bmi-stage" target="_blank" ><u>BMI Stage</u></a>, one of the festival’s smallest — a slot that has become dubbed the “Lady Gaga” slot, after the pop icon performed there the year before her breakthrough album “The Fame.”</p><p>“I was super nervous,” Dacus recounted in a video call from her home in Los Angeles.
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Lucy Dacus is making her orchestral debut with the Chicago Philharmonic. It's a full circle moment.
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