Bob Dylan goes electric at Sydney Opera House for Vivid

Sydney’s Vivid festival has unveiled this year’s international and Australian music lineup.

In the late 1960s, Bob Dylan was vilified by fundamentalist folk music fans for using electric guitars. Picture: Getty Images

Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 set at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall, in which he went electric and was heckled with chants of “Judas!”, will be recreated at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Festival.

Indie rock artist Cat Power will play the same songs as Dylan and in the same order. Like Dylan did, five decades ago, she will perform the first half of her set acoustic, before switching to an electric guitar.

Cat Power will play Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live

It’s just one of many music performances set to take place across Sydney between May 25 and June 17 as part of the 13th year of Vivid.

Archie Roach, who died last June, will be honoured by Paul Kelly, Emma Donovan, Dan Sultan, Kutcha Edwards and more in a tribute performance, A Bend in the River, at the Sydney Town Hall.

A Bend in the River: A Tribute to Archie Roach.

More than 40 Australian and international musicians, with genres spanning from folk, punk, house, and rock, will perform at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Live takeover.

Swedish folk artist Jose Gonzales will commemorate the 20th anniversary of his Grammy-nominated album Veneer.Otherinternational acts include Iceage, Thundercat, Kimbra, Ella Mai, Yaeki, Ethel Cain, Squarepusher, Sleaford Mods and Weyes Blood.

Homegrown acts will include Jen Cloher, Budjerah, The Necks, Jaguar Jonze, HTRK and Martha Marlow.

Melbourne singer-songwriter Jen Cloher.

The Sydney Symphony ­Orchestra will collaborate with several musicians, including ­singer, songwriter and multi-­instrumentalist Devonte Hynes (Blood Orange), who will return to Australia for the first time in more than a decade; German classical composer Max Richter, who alongside conductor Matthew Lynch will present his new project, Ambient Orchestra; and Australian neo-soul act Hiatus Kaiyote.

At Carriageworks, critically lauded producer and filmmaker Flying Lotus will headline a party thrown by Astral People.

Vivid music curator Joe ­Muller said this year’s line-up “showcases music as the thread that connects us to our natural and urban environments, our culture, our families, our stories and our sense of belonging”.

Vivid will take place across Sydney from Friday, May 26, to Saturday, June 17