Kyle Hollingsworth is perhaps most best known as the keyboard player in The String Cheese Incident, the well known jam/psychedelic rock/progressive bluegrass band that started life in Crested Butte, Colorado but came to prominence when the group re-located to Boulder in 1996. In the wider realm of jam bands, local and otherwise, SCI became one of the most prominent acts across its 30+ year career through the development of its stage show and audience participation elements and fully incorporating its members’ various musical interests outside the band into a cohesive and organic sound without compromising its core sound rooted in a kind of folk Americana with an expanded sonic palette. Hollingsworth brings a warm and subtle coloring to the music that lends it a comforting energy.
For many years Hollingsworth has been releasing music he has largely penned himself with Kyle Hollingsworth Band. It’s a different flavor from String Cheese though not inherently an obviously major departure from his contributions to that project. His latest, 2025’s All We Are (released 8/1/25 via SCI Fidelity Records) is a sonically rich affair that is also a bit of an assessment of his musical career to date—the journey of the creative path he’s undertaken and its impact on his own life and psyche and the artistic explorations he’s ventured along the way. In conveying his own development as a person and as a creative, Hollingsworth obviously writes in a way that has a resonance for listeners who have perhaps looked back on their life trying to sort out where they’ve been in order to have a meaningful road from where they are now. With the new record, as with previous records under his own name, the singer and keyboard player experiments more with sound and style and seems much less steeped in traditional musical ideas and methods.
In 2025 Kyle Hollingsworth Band will once again headline Kyle’s Brew Fest in Longmont, Colorado on September 6 at Wibby Brewing Co that also serves as an album release party. For the event Hollingsowrth collaborated with 4 Hands Brewing Company for a beer pairing to complement the music on hand. Buy tickets here. https://events.sellout.io/Kyle-Hollingsworth-Bocotoberfest-Wibby10year Listen to our interview with Hollingsworth on Bandcamp and follow Hollingsworth at the links below.
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