Kyle Hollingsworth Joins Taper’s Choice For String Cheese Incident & Traffic Songs In Boulder

The String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth dropped in on Taper’s Choice’s concert last night at The Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado. The sit-in included performances of an SCI song and a Traffic cover, as well as a Taper’s Choice original during his stint with the band.

Billed as on the theater’s marquee as a “Pholsom Pre Party” (Phish begins a three-night run at nearby Folsom Field tonight), the show began with bassist Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) welcoming the audience attending their first show at The Fox.

The bassist and his bandmates, drummer Chris Tomson (Vampire Weekend), keyboardist Zach Tenorio-Miller (Arc Iris) and guitarist Dave Harrington (DARKSIDE), opened the one-set performance with “Running From the Rain.”

The foursome then offered a take on “Pino Botticelli” before cooking up “Mahi Mahi Fish Stew.” Elements of the Grateful Dead’s “Dark Star” made their way into the subsequent “Close Encounters.”

Hollingsworth then joined the band on a keyboard rig set up next to Tenorio-Miller’s. The collaboration started with the Taper’s Choice original “Darkness on the Edge of Midtown.” The musicians next rolled into Hollingsworth’s instrumental SCI rarity, “Elijah.” The song from the band’s 2003 album, Untying the Not, which Kyle called a “throwback,” has been played live by The String Cheese Incident less than five times.

The sit-in wrapped with Hollingsworth singing lead on Traffic’s “Empty Pages.” Bleeker, Tomson, Tenorio-Miller and Harrington wrapped their performance with “Doner Wrap” and “Lick the Toad.”

Stream full show audio featuring Hollingsworth’s three-song sit-in posted by taper Z-Man:

Watch video of the concert (note: image is reversed in the video) streamed by Steven J. Ziegler:

Setlist (via taperschoice.net)

Set One: Running From the Rain, Pino Botticelli, Mahi Mahi Fish Stew, Close Encounters, Darkness on the Edge of Midtown[1], Elijah[1], Empty Pages[2], Doner Wrap, Lick the Toad

Notes:

• [1] Kyle Hollingsworth Keys
• [2] Kyle Hollingsworth Keys & Vocals