The String Cheese Incident Brings Transylvania To Hulaween

The String Cheese Incident transformed Hulaween into “Club Transylvania” on Saturday. SCI premiered or broke out a variety of disco, rock and hip-hop classics during the Halloween festival they host at Spirit Of The Suwannee Park in Live Oak, Florida.

Decked out in blood red, The String Cheese Incident — guitarist Bill Nershi, mandolinist/fiddler Michael Kang, bassist Keith Moseley, keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth, drummer Michael Travis and percussionist Jason Hann — kicked off their “Club Transylvania” set with disco rave up “Le Freak” by .

The set saw Cheese welcoming a horn section — Dennis Marion, Kenneth Hamilton and Marcus Parsley — along with vocalists Kanika Moore, Katie Hutton and Lauren Linzy as well as special guest Fontana Cugino.

In the disco category the band would also cover Bee Gees (“Stayin’ Alive”), Diana Ross (“I’m Coming Out”) and Gloria Gaynor (“I Will Survive”). Additionally, SCI delivered holiday appropriate rock tunes such as The Rolling Stones' “Sympathy For The Devil,” The Doors' “People Are Strange” and Rob Zombie's “Dragula.” The band also unveiled Duran Duran's “Hungry Like The Wolf.”

More contemporary tunes included Sophie Ellis Bextor's “Murder On The Dance Floor,” OutKast's “Dracula’s Wedding” and Lady Gaga's “Zombie Boy.” Following the latter, Cheese wrapped the “Club Transylvania” set with Kool And The Gang’s “Celebration.”