Holly Bowling Interprets Phish & Grateful Dead Songs In Pennsylvania

Earlier this week, pianist Holly Bowling began a Spring Tour that brings her to Asbury Park tonight, Port Chester tomorrow and Cambridge on Sunday. Last night, Bowling showed off her masterful interpretations of Phish and Grateful Dead classics at the River Street Jazz Cafe in Plains, Pennsylvania. A soundboard matrix recording of Thursday’s show has already surfaced and serves as this week’s Full Show Friday selection.

Holly kicked off the show with her take on “The Curtain With” and then treated fans to a gorgeous version of “Unbroken Chain.” Bowling first caught our attention by re-working Phish’s famed “Tahoe Tweezer” for solo piano and last night’s performance included two different historic Phish jams. The first came out of “Piper” when she showed off her interpretation of the jam Phish played out of “Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley” at The Gorge in 2009. Later in the night, Holly offered up her version of the “Tweezer” jam the Vermont quartet unleashed on April 21, 1992 in Eureka, California. Other highlights from Thursday’s performance were a near 20-minute “Terrapin Station Suite,” an “It’s Ice” featuring “Frankenstein” in the middle and the spot-on, show-closing “Taste.”

Listen to a soundboard matrix recording of last night’s show from Keith Litzenberger: