As many of you know, we lost a good friend and member of our family earlier this year, Sarah Gewald. Sarah’s sudden passing was shocking and very difficult for many of us. The funeral and gathering for her was the most emotional and loving tribute imaginable. She leaves behind an incredible group of friends who have been blessed by her kindness and motivated by her absence.

This is a loving tribute for Sarah and all who miss her.

Keith wrote this song in Sarah’s memory, and we’d like to share it with everyone. We’ve set it up so that you can pay whatever you want (from $0 on up) for the download via our BandCamp page. We will donate 100% of the proceeds in Sarah’s name to Front Range Hippotherapy, a charity close to Sarah’s heart.  

With Love,
SCI and Team Moseley

American Songwriter Magazine visited SCI during the Nashville stop of the ROOTS RUN DEEP tour.  They just posted this exclusive performance footage - an unplugged backstage performance of “Barstool.”

Check it out, let AS know what you think, and pass it around!

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/12/exclusive-string-cheese-incident-perform-barstool-unplugged/

We’re still buzzing from the ROOTS RUN DEEP tour, and wanted to share one more look at the Chicago Incidents from our friends at NoCoast.TV.

Enjoy, and thanks again to everyone who made it out to the shows!:

Our friends at NoCoast.TV have been out on the road with us documenting the ROOTS RUN DEEP tour, and capturing some incredible footage along the way.  

Enjoy this video from the first leg of the tour, which provides a taste of what it’s been like getting back out on the road at the Asheville, Atlanta, Athens, and Nashville Incidents:

Special thanks to iClips for the Asheville concert footage. And don’t forget, if you can’t make it to the St. Louis and Chicago shows this week, you can tune in on iClips.net!

It’s finally here … tonight marks the start of the Roots Run Deep tour, and we couldn’t be more excited to see everyone out on the road!

Just a reminder that if you can’t make it out to the shows, you can follow along with realtime setlists on Twitter from @Live_Cheese. And as always, all Incidents will be available in MP3, CD, FLAC, ALAC or FLAC-HD formats within 24 hours of each performance at LiveCheese.com.

Also, iClips.net will be broadcasting a LIVE stream from tonight’s tour kick-off show in Asheville, NC, as well as St. Louis (12/7), and all 3 Chicago shows (12/8-10). Order all 5 Incidents from www.iClips.net and save!

We’re very excited to partner with iClips once again to broadcast a Pay-Per-View series of String Cheese Incident shows this Fall!

The iClips crew will start out with the much anticipated tour opener in Asheville, NC at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, and then catch back up with us on the final four shows with a stop at The Pageant in St. Louis and a 3 night run at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.

GO HERE for more details including pricing and special packages, or visit iClips.net to pre-order today!

With the last of the Bonnaroo dust finally off us, we’re excited to offer up the full performance for download at LiveCheese. Get it here 

Also - check out some photos from the set - dance moves and all - here.

OFFICIAL SETLIST - 6/11/11 Bonnaroo Music Festival , Manchester, TN
Tennessee Jed > Rollover, Joyful Sound, Miss Brown’s Teahouse, Rosie, Way That It Goes, Sirens > Colorado Bluebird Sky > It Is What It Is (w/Sexy Sax Man), Bumpin’ Reel, Texas E: Outside and Inside > Mysterious Ways

The String Cheese Incident announces the digital release of Winter Carnival 2011, a live, 21-track compilation of songs culled from the band’s recent Winter Carnival run at Colorado’s brand new 1STBANK Center.  Available exclusively at iTunes beginning May 24, 2011, Winter Carnival 2011 catches all of the energy and excitement from this epic run of hometown shows. 

BUY WINTER CARNIVAL 2011 NOW

For this year’s edition of Winter Carnival, the band welcomed OTT, JD Crowe and the New South, and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk to join them on stage at the celebration’s new home, the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colorado.   A brand new venue just outside of the band’s hometown of Boulder, The String Cheese Incident had played there only once before – hosting the now-legendary “Fourmile Canyon Revival” benefit concert.  Now, it was time for SCI to lay down roots at this venue that would run deep. And indeed the 1STBANK Center proved to be a natural fit for this epic run of “Incidents.” 

WINTER CARNIVAL 2011 ON ITUNES

The String Cheese Incident’s Winter Carnival 2011 Track List is as follows:

DISC 1

1. Betray The Dark

2. Cottonmouth

3. Pygmy Pony

4. Rosie

5. Will It Go ‘Round In Circles

6. Rocky Road Blues

7. Let’s Go Outside

8. Sand Dollar

9. Colorado Bluebird Sky

DISC 2

1. Rivertrance

2. Give Me The Love

3. Blue Bossa

4. Sweet Melinda

5. Big Shoes

6. Ramble On

DISC 3

1. Rhythm Of The Road

2. Dirk

3. Way Back Home

4. Black Clouds

5. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

6. Black Clouds (Reprise)

25,000 lbs of food were collected over String Cheese Incident’s Winter Carnival, making it Conscious Alliances single most successful food drive ever.  The much needed food is on it’s way up to Pine Ridge now…THANK YOU SCI Community for all your participation and generosity…check it out:

The iTunes music store has just launched the Artist Essentials Playlist for The String Cheese Incident! The editorial team at iTunes selected forty-five classic tracks to build this playlist as an entry point for music fans who are unfamiliar with the complete SCI catalog, and are unsure where to begin.  From the iTunes stores:

The greatest songs, the greatest artists, fanatically handpicked to let you discover a legacy, explore a genre, or set a mood.  iTunes Essentials – the best place to find your next favorite song.

As usual, Essentials’ tracks are broken up into three separate playlists - The Basics, Next Steps and Deep Cuts - which can be purchased separately or as a Complete Set. You can also buy the individual songs if you’re just looking for a few key tracks to complete your collection. This description from the iTunes store gives a pretty good idea of what you can expect when you dig into the SCI Artist Essentials:

Boulder, CO jam gods the String Cheese Incident started out playing in return for ski passes, but evolved into a band capable of transmitting their vibe a long way beyond Colorado’s snow-dusted slopes. Sometimes they sound like a bunch of backwoods firebrands riffing on musical roots with boundless skill and a healthy respect for bluegrass tradition; other times they boldly explore uncharted sonic territory, weaving in disparate elements (including calypso, reggae and jass) as if possessed by an unpredictably mischievous spirit: hence the dark atmospherics of “Sirens” (with its almost surreal punctuation of sun-kissed reggae), side-by-side with the mountain harmonies of “Restless Wind.”

Check out the SCI Artist Essentials on iTunes today!