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The String Cheese Incident has announced three nights of performances at the brand-new Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville taking place on July 22, 23 and 24 . Joining the venue’s launch will mark the band’s first return to Nashville in nearly nine years. Tickets to the Brooklyn Bowl shows will go on sale Friday, December 20 th , at noon Central .
SCI celebrated 25 years of as a band in 2019. The band played a handful of select markets and festivals during their 25th anniversary year and has just released the “ 2019 Travelogue ” – a compilation of live tracks from the year that includes over 4.5 hours of free music. Fans can download “2019 Travelogue” at LiveCheese.com and stream on Spotify.
The past 25 years have written a story that is packed full of surreal experiences, epic moments, groundbreaking involvement and huge accomplishments. They have been recognized for their commitment to musical creativity and integrity, for their community spirit, philanthropic endeavors, and for their innovative approach to the business of music.
When The String Cheese Incident’s growth first started gaining momentum over two decades ago, when the Internet was just beginning to take hold and the major-label business model was failing, the band decided to make music on their own terms.
Since then, The String Cheese Incident has gone on to carve out a completely different approach to the business of music; they are truly pioneers of a new way of “making a band.” With the Internet as their tool, SCI was among the first artists to disseminate information online, such as tour dates, release information, and other news, to their growing fan base. Rather than doing business on such terms as “the bottom line,” SCI put their music and their fans first, opening companies of their own, including a ticketing company, a merchandise company and a fan travel agency, to best serve their community. The band’s record label, SCI Fidelity Records, has always operated under the same ideals. Even early on, SCI Fidelity embraced downloadable music and file sharing, delivering SCI’s “On The Road” series, where every show the band plays is made available for download on the Internet. Whether they realized it at the time or not, The String Cheese Incident was inventing grassroots band development. Today, literally hundreds of bands are using some version of this same approach to building a band.
