Campground 23 features a three-day program with more than two dozen composers plus performers. Credit: c/o Campground

After a successful weekend on both sides of Tampa Bay for its inaugural outing last year, CampGround new music festival is back to do it again, with plans to take over Ybor City’s newest arts hub, The Kress Collective.

Built around living composers’ cutting-edge new sounds Campground23 (stylized “CAMP,” meaning Contemporary Art Music Project) runs Thursday-Saturday, March 16-18 and features a three-day program with more than two dozen composers plus performers.

The offering, as CL’s Eric Snider described it, is boundlessly textured almost always instrumental music that is often, “loosely speaking, avant-garde in nature.”

Campground23 kicks things off at Tempus Projects inside Ybor’s new Kress Collective before spending two days at The Factory in St. Pete ahead of a return to Tampa for Saturday’s festival close. There’s even a free admission day on Friday. Kids under 8 are free to all events.