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THE ILLIAC at Hessel Park
Hessel Park
1401 Grandview Dr.
Champaign, Illinois
(217) 398-2550
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An evening of music featuring Sinfonia da Camera, The Marching Illini, The Soul Syndicate, and Bandoneon Massacre!
This event will host an array of live music, a variety of food trucks, and select wines and beers from Art Mart. Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets to fully enjoy the evening under the summer sky.
Free, all ages, food trucks, libations.
The ILLIAC is presented on occasion by the same promoters who have brought you PYGMALION for the past twenty-plus years in Champaign-Urbana. Named in honor of The Illiac Suite, which is widely known as the first piece of music composition created by an electronic computer, the event itself first took place in 2014 in Downtown Urbana as a one day music festival. After ten years, it returned in 2024 in Hessel Park, presenting Sinfonia da Camera’s first-ever outdoor performance. This year, we’re upping the ante, presenting Sinfonia da Camera alongside the Marching Illini, The Soul Syndicate, and Bandoneon Massacre.