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Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward-thinking practices particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

10/20/2026

Save the date for the return of Frequency Festival, taking place February 23–28.

More details and the full festival lineup are coming soon!

📸 of from 2026 Frequency Festival by .__ju._

10/19/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

Featuring deep cuts for the film, jazz, and contemporary classical lovers.

10/21: Chicago Film Society Presents: An Evening with Jim Trainor
10/22: Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians + Dal Niente
10/23: Rembrandt Chamber Musicians' Jazz & Improvised Music Series: Wadada Leo Smith w/ Jason Stein / Damon Smith / Adam Shead Trio
10/24: The Metropolitan Jazz Octet w/ Dee Alexander
10/25: Frequency Series Presents: Morton Feldman's "For John Cage" featuring Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea

Full calendar and ticket links in bio ✨

10/12/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

Got a little something for everyone this week featuring some local love, indie rock, ecology inspired compositions, and the Kurtág fest finale! Check it out...

10/14: Jeremy Cunningham "Passing Fires" Album Release Show
10/15: An Evening with HUG *low ticket warning*
10/17: A. Martinez, Katherine Young & Friends w/ Norman Long
10/18: Kurtág @100: Chicago Festival of György Kurtág

Tickets and full calendar in bio ✨

10/06/2026

💫 JUST ANNOUNCED 💫

11/13: Chicago trio Twin Talk ( - saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, bassist-singer Katie Ernst, and drummer Andrew Green)’s new album title, Delights, is affably tongue-in-cheek, but it’s not wrong. While the title Delights plays on listeners’ expectations for a breezy set of delectable melodies, in actuality the group’s tricky interplay consistently challenges that presumption. But Delights is no misnomer as these 11 tracks never lose a sense of joy as they unfold into the prismatic, intuitive musical conversation that has marked this band’s sound for more than a decade.

Tickets on sale in bio ✨

10/05/2026

🌟THIS WEEK🌟

10/9: Mike Reed's Sparatist Party + Resavoir Double Album Release
10/10: Rempis/Cambien/Abrams/Harris
10/11: Kurtág@ 100: Chicago Festival of György Kurtág

Full calendar and ticket link in bio ✨

09/28/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

Come on by and ease into autumn with some experimental music ~

9/28: múm w/ Paige Alice Naylor
9/29: múm w/ MUKQS
10/4: Frequency Series Presents: ~Nois Quartet - Curiosity X

Full calendar and ticket link in bio 💫

09/26/2026

💫 DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE 💫

10/9: Mike Reed's Separatist Party + Resavoir

Isn't Chicago the best? You won't get this anywhere else. Jazz heads, look alive!!! Don't miss your chance to catch performances for these two highly anticipated albums. Tickets are already moving quickly, don't wait.

Sing the Color Blue reunites Mike Reed () with Rob Frye (), Cooper Crain, Dan Quinlivan (all of the trio Bitchin Bajas- ), Marvin Tate (), and Ben LaMar Gay ( 's ) in a set that moves between composition, reconstruction, improvisation, and song form.

Drawing inspiration from the atmospheric sound worlds of Jon Hassell and Flying Lotus as well as the heavy drums, smeared samples, and weightless textures of cloud rap, Above The Clouds captures the current incarnation of Resavoir (): a band using electronic instruments with the spontaneity and interplay of an improvising ensemble.

Ticket link and full calendar in bio ✨

09/25/2026

🌟 JUST ANNOUNCED 🌟

10/14: Jeremy Cunningham () is a composer, drummer, and producer whose music is shaped through improvisation, storytelling, and a deep connection to Chicago’s creative music community. Long-standing collaborative relationships and a belief in collective music-making have become the foundation of his practice, where fragments of piano sketches, lines of poetry, field recordings, and rhythmic ideas are transformed into richly layered works that blur the boundaries between jazz, experimental music, and song. His 2020 debut as a leader on Northern Spy, The Weather Up There, earned widespread critical acclaim from Pitchfork, TIME, Bandcamp, the Chicago Tribune, Dusted, and others, with Josh Terry calling it “one of the most affecting jazz albums in recent memory.”

Tickets and full calendar in bio ✨

09/22/2026

🌟 JUST ANNOUNCED 🌟

4/7: In today's fast-paced mid-apocalyptic world it can feel like a waste of time to speak about time at all. Why dwell on the past when we could just live in the present because the future won't shut up about how bad it's going to be? But with This is the Kit () aka Kate Stables (songwriter / banjo strummer / pinhole camera lover /Wi******er UK born Parisdweller), we're going to have to give time just a modicum of consideration. Because not only is Kate still here and making albums of cataclysmic honesty and welcoming tonal embraces, they are continuing to grow, which is probably the only smart way to move forward through time. This IsThe Kit's music places companionship at a premium, so being welcomed into its space feels like an obvious privilege, on record and in concert hall with her stellar supporting cast of Rozi Plain (bass), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums) and Neil Smith (guitar). And at this current point in our confusing history, continuing to be here at all, o stand tall and make music to gather to, that's a heroic act. Joyful survival as an act of time-wasting, I'll take that any day of the week. Look to This IsThe Kit to spend at least one day of your week this year, I guarantee it will be time well wasted.

Tickets on sale FRI 9/25 at 10 CST - link in bio ✨

09/21/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK (& a little into next week) 🌟

We got a little something for everyone coming up, check it out:

9/23: Grażyna Auguścik Chicago Quintet: On The Way
9/24: Glenn Jones w/ Liam Grant & Katie Ernst
9/25 (early & late show): *SOLD OUT* Sun Ra Arkestra
9/26: BASIC w/ Ibises & Luca Cimarusti
9/27: Frequency Series Presents: Ensemble Dal Niente
9/28: múm w/ Paige Alice Naylor
9/29: múm w/ Mukqs

Full calendar and tickets in bio 💫

Address

3111 N Western Avenue
Chicago, IL
60618

Website

http://constellation-chicago.com/, https://soundandgravity.org/

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