Concerts

The Fretless set to take a bow at Club Passim

The band comes to Cambridge Dec. 15, on the heels of its collaborative new album, "Open House."

The Fretless Courtesy of The Fretless's website

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The Fretless and their high-energy folk music are set to take the Club Passim stage on Dec. 15 on the heels of releasing their new album “Open House” on Oct. 22.

The band plays traditional music with a twist, taking those tunes of old and turning them into something new.

“No one is expecting the most traditional experience,” Trent Freeman, who plays fiddle and viola, said in a 2018 interview. The band had just released its live album, “Live from the Ant Farm,” that past spring. “If you’re coming to see us, I think you’re coming with an open mind to begin with.”

A review from Folk Radio of the live record called it “raw, exciting and largely comprising traditional fare.”

“That said, while all but four of the tunes within the sets performed are selected from the traditional oeuvre, here they are treated with fresh, progressive arrangements for a quartet, yet surrendering nothing of their time-honoured origins.”

The new album was set to be “their most ambitious recording to date,” according to the band’s website. The record includes a variety of guest singers.