Photo by Keith Griner, via @sci_official on Instagram

Over the weekend, The String Cheese Incident hosted the sixth annual Suwannee Hulaween, with a lineup featuring Odesza, STS9, Jamiroquai, Janelle Monae and more. For their second of three performance on Saturday night, the band welcomed a parade of guests, including several female vocalists and the horn section from JJ Grey’s band Mofro.

The guest highlight on Saturday came during the second of three sets, when vocalists Rhonda Thomas and Tony White helped out on newer SCI tune “Get To You.” The “Women of the Galaxy” third set later kicked off with Lisa Fischer on vocals for The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” followed by Jennifer Hartswick leading the way on Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady.” Thomas also helped SCI cover Tina Turner’s version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” Franklin’s “Respect” and Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie” during the set, while Hartswick later took lead and added some trumpet on Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker,” and Fischer sang on Roberta Flack’s hit “Killing Me Softly With His Song.”

Heart’s Ann Wilson was also part of the night, taking over for a cover of Cream’s “Politician” and, appropriately , Heart’s classic “Barracuda.” The collected musicians then closed the third set together with a collaborative run of Bob Marley’s “Get Up Stand Up.” Saturday’s encore followed, with an extended final frame that continued the “galaxy” theme with SCI’s versions of several well-known tunes from sci-fi classics—all sandwiched between their own “Rollover”— like the “Imperial March” and “Cantina Song” from Star Wars and music associated with Star Trek, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

String Cheese played their third show on Sunday night, welcoming Nth Power guitarist Nick Cassarino to the stage and playing a slew of originals and covers for the packed Florida crowd. The band kicked off the first half with their own “Barstool” as well as a “Mouna Bowa” which they jammed into “High On A Mountain Top.” After the Song In My Head number “Stay Through,” SCI dug into the Townes Van Zandt number “White Freightliner Blues,” the traditional “Whiskey Before Breakfast” and the Michael Kang solo tune “Water,” which was jammed into the band’s seventh-ever performance of Onus B. Johnson’s “Purple Strains (Earls Song).” SCI then closed the first set with the Outside Inside cut “Close Your Eyes.”

“Vertigo,” one of SCI’s newer Sound Lab singles, led last night’s second set, followed by a “Way Back Home”> “Beautiful” segment. Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” got the crowd moving, as Nick Cassarino joined in on guitar and vocals. Cassarino departed shortly for “It Is What Is Is” and “Sirens,” but returned for the String Cheese Incident’s final song of Hulaween 2018, Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).”

Check out the band’s full setlists below:

The String Cheese Incident
October 27, 2018
Suwannee Hulaween – Live Oak, FL

Set I: Birdland, Sweet Spot, Sing A New Song > These Waves > Djibouti Bump > You’ve Got The World, Colorado Bluebird Sky

Set II: Desert Dawn, Get To You^, Hi Ho No Show, The Big Reveal, Jellyfish, Rosie

Set III: Women of the Galaxy: Gimme Shelter (1), Rock Steady (2), Proud Mary (3), Killing Me Softly With His Song (4), Respect (5), Valerie (6), Heartbreaker (7), Politician (8), Baracuda (9), Get Up Stand Up (10)

Enc: Rollover > Close Encounters Jam > Star Wars Jam > Cantina Jam > Imperial March > Star Trek Next Generation Jam > Original Star Trek Jam > 2001 > Rollover

Notes:

^- w/ Rhonda & Tony on vocals
1- Rolling Stones cover, Lisa Fischer on vocals
2- Aretha Franklin cover, Jen Hartswick on vocals and trumpet
3- Tina Turner cover, Rhonda Thomas on vocals
4- Roberta Flack cover, Lisa Fischer on vocals
5- Aretha Franklin cover, Rhonda Thomas on vocals
6- Amy Winehouse cover, Rhonda Thomas on vocals
7- Pat Benatar cover, Jen Hartswick on vocals and trumpet
8- Cream cover, Ann Wilson on vocals
9- Heart cover, Ann Wilson on vocals
10- Bob Marley, cover featuring everyone

Featuring the Mofro Horns, Rhonda Thomas & Tony White, Jen Hartswick, Lisa Fischer, & Ann Wilson

Source: https://www.facebook.com/stringcheeseincident/

The String Cheese Incident
October 28, 2018
Suwannee Hulaween – Live Oak, FL

Set I: Barstool, Mouna Bowa > High on a Mountain Top, Stay Through, White Freightliner Blues, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Water > Purple Strains (Earls Song), Close Your Eyes

Set II: Vertigo, Way Back Home > Beautiful, Superstition*, It Is What It Is, Sirens > This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)*

Notes:

*with Nick Cassarino on guitar and vocals

Source: friendsofcheese.com