The summer festival lineups keep rolling in and it's looking like September is going to be a very busy and undeniably enjoyable month for music lovers. Especially the week of September 10-14 as Constellation Performing Arts announces the inaugural Sound & Gravity. The multi-venue festival will bring together 48 acts at amazing stages including Constellation, Hungry Brain, Judson & Moore, Beat Kitchen, Guild Row, and Rockwell on the River. Sound & Gravity will be aiming to impress Chicago music fans with a fantastic showcase of music genres including jazz, experimental, contemporary classical, and indie music.
The venues making up the Sound & Gravity campus will all be in Bricktown/Avondale, where all the venues are within a 15-minute walk from each other. It will be a great way to explore the area and really get to know this thriving segment of the city. The festival will add to the that vibrancy as it also serves as a fundraiser for Constellation Performing Arts, a not-for-profit organization founded by Mike Reed, who is also the festival's curator. Reed should be familiar not just to fans of avant-garde and experimental music, but also attendees of Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, which he launched and produced right up to its unfortunate and abrupt end.
Sound & Gravity's lineup is exactly what you would hope for from Reed post-PMF as it dives into a very diverse and unique set of offerings. You'll get guitar-driven rock from the always incredible Mdou Moctar, Mary Lattimore's beautiful harp experimentation, jazz complexities from Irreversible Entanglements, ambient pop serenades from Helado Negro, and plenty of local acts including Sam Prekop, Lia Kohl/ Macie Stewart/ Whitney Johnson, Gylders, and more! This lineup is full of amazing performers creating some of the most unique and satisfying music and an exciting addition to Chicago's incredible festival season.
Tickets for Sound & Gravity go on sale Wednesday May 7 at 11am. There will be a nice range of ticket options including an all-event four-day pass for $240, a $95 single-day pass, and a Wednesday opening night pass for $45.
