Bells of Summer Carillon Concert Series

Name: Bells of Summer Carillon Concert Series
Start: 2024-06-30T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-06-30T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637

Schedule

Sun Jun 30 2024 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5850 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637 | Chicago, IL

Rockefeller Chapel hosts its 58th Annual Bells of Summer Concert Season! Bring your summer picnic and blanket or picnic chairs to the east lawn, and enjoy the beautiful sound of the bells, played by virtuoso carillonists from the greater Chicago area and beyond.
Summer Sundays, 5 pm
June 23 – August 11

Stay after the concert for a tower tour and enjoy the magnificent 360-degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, northern Indiana, and the Michigan Harbor Country shoreline! The spiral stone staircase is taken at a leisurely pace, and is not recommended for those who are claustrophobic. Along the way you’ll walk above the Chapel’s false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour chimes, past the largest bell (36,926 lbs at 117 inches in diameter) and its 13 friends, and then into the playing cabin, 240 of the 271 steps up, where the carillonneur plays the mighty instrument. The tour departs promptly at 6:05 pm from the east entrance of the tower ($5/suggested donation).