“It’s such a great pub, I’ve played there on and off for many years now,” she says.

“I love that it is a smaller community, that people get behind the shows and often, everyone at the gig knows each other somehow. That’s always different live compared to a big city gig where not everyone is connected.”

Happy to be back in her home state after touring her album All the Bridges in Canada and the US, and a week of shows in New South Wales, Stringer will “make a lot of noise” with her four piece band, bringing her unique blend of rootsy pop and heartfelt ballads to the Old Hepburn tonight.

“This is my most dancing record to date,” she says.

“It’s a lot more rock and roll. By the end of the set people are moving.”

Stringer says the album was made to be heard live and it is the vibe she aims for when in the studio. 

“In the studio the drums, base, and rhythm guitar are all live, so the skeleton of the songs are done in one take.”

Stringer grew up with music, learning piano as a young child and songwriting and playing guitar as a teenager, before starting a band in Germany at 16.

“I was exposed to music I hadn’t been exposed to before in Germany,” Stringer says. 

“It widened my experience as a person. That eventually finds its way into your songwriting and into the bank of experience.”

Stringer is performing in Kyneton in May as a part of a tour with Canadian musician Tim Moxam.