Harpist Mary Lattimore had some thank-yous to make. Onstage at an event space in the Rockwell on the River complex, on the cusp of Lake View and Avondale, she paused her delicately looping set to shout out the organizers of Sound & Gravity, the festival she was appearing under. They’d even helped transport her harp.

“I feel very taken care of,” she told the audience, smiling ear-to-ear.

That’s the perk of headlining a festival — by musicians, for musicians — like Sound & Gravity. Earlier this year, Pitchfork co-founder and drummer Mike Reed set to work planning a new music festival that would champion Chicago, and the liminal patch of Chicago that houses his two venues, Constellation and Hungry Brain.

His considerations were logistical as much as creative: Condé Nast had abruptly pulle

See Full Page