Not your average string quartet

The Fretless chose to take on the instrumental format of a classical string quartet — violins, a viola and cello — and their warm, wooden harmonies are to be celebrated, but that’s where the obvious expectations end.
From their start some six years ago, the multiple award-winning group has focused on traditional and new original tunes in a folk vein, and they’re still evolving. In festival performance, you might see most of them standing up as you would a bluegrass band,