A first-time music festival by the owner of the music venue Constellation is coming to the Bricktown and Avondale neighborhoods this September.
Sound & Gravity, created by Mike Reed, will be Sept. 10-14 at Constellation, Hungry Brain, Judson & Moore, Beat Kitchen, Guild Row and Rockwell on the River, with an avant-garde, experimental music and jazz-heavy lineup of some 48 acts in all over five days, including an opening night event.
Headliners and boldface names include Bill Callahan, Mdou Moctar, Helado Negro, Mary Lattimore, Irreversible Entanglements, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, ganavya, Tarbaby, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Julianna Barwick, Mary Halvorson, William Tyler, Elias Rønnenfelt, Third Coast Percussion and Glenn Kotche, as well as sets created by Electric Audio, the Chicago studio founded by the late Steve Albini.
An announcement of the festival on Wednesday said it hoped to present “a diverse range of musical genres which reflect the eclectic programming ethos of Constellation Performing Arts.”
Reed is also known for co-founding the now-shuttered Pitchfork Music Festival, which ran more or less annually in Union Park from 2006 to 2024. The event will also serve as a fundraiser for Constellation Performing Arts.
Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Wednesday (five-day passes $240, single-day passes $95, opening night event $45, Sunday Constellation tickets $25, all with additional fees); wl.seetickets.us
