Restrung Festival 2021

Overview

Three days, nine events, multiple art forms, plenty of stringed instruments. Add them all together, and that's the returning Restrung Festival, which is back for another round of genre-bending tunes.

If you thought that violins, cellos and the like were just for classical music fans, prepare to have your perception altered at this fest. Here, everything from electronica, folk and jazz to rock, pop and minimalism also gets a look-in, challenging the status quo when it comes to these instruments.

Taking over Metro Arts from Thursday, October 14–Saturday, October 16, the festival features strings doing different and unexpected things: responding to the pandemic in Topology's Killing Music, getting experimental in Dots+Loops' latest underground club-inspired performance, and pondering colonial Australia in Dreaming in the Sand, for instance.

On Saturday night in Metro Arts' outdoor Factory Lane, there'll also be performance pop-ups — and three different art installations all inspired by strings will also be in display across the festival's run.