Holly Bowling Offers Solo Piano Cover Of Phish’s ‘The Curtain With’

Pianist Holly Bowling just concluded a Fall Tour with two nights at the Pittsburgh Winery in Pittsburgh. Holly continues to dig through the Phish repertoire for classics to interpret and on Wednesday night she served up a stirring rendition of “The Curtain With.”

Phish debuted “The Curtain With” on August 9, 1987 and played it frequently through the following summer. After a performance during the band’s first trip to Colorado in 1988, they shelved the tune though they played “The Curtain,” a version of the song without its blissful, “Rift”-like guitar solo at the end fairly regularly. On July 12, 2000 Phish brought back “The Curtain With” after a layoff of 1,178 shows. They’ve since performed it 17 times with the most recent version played at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on August 31, 2014.

Watch Holly’s beautiful “The Curtain With” captured by madpicken:

Holly Bowling will make her Jam Cruise debut in January.