9/15/18 String Cheese Incident @ Planet Bluegrass Ranch - Lyons, CO

Last Saturday I celebrated my 12th year without drinking by ironically going to a concert put on by Mountain Sun.  This two day event at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, CO was known as the Colorado Kynd Festival.  It doesn't get much more Colorado than standing in a mountain stream listening to Yonder Mountain String Band and The String Cheese Incident.  The crowd was very family oriented.  I'm not sure I've ever seen more children at a show.  I was enjoying the Speedy West on the PA system before SCI.  It was good to see Whitney from work and Kacie from Iowa State.  I spent the show with Angelo and his family.  They were very generous and I liked their creek side location on the Kyle side.

The first set was highlighted by Missin' Me > Rivertrance.  I liked the groove that Keith and the drummers built from Illegal > I Know You Rider.  Jen Hartswick did a great job per usual during the songs that she sat in for.  Panama Red and This Must Be the Place were appropriate with me having just moved to nearby Longmont, CO.  I've never seen SCI so close to home.  During Rollover I made my way back to my vehicle.  As the Shake Your Body encore ended I was hitting the road.  That cover was during the awkward years when they were known as The Jacksons just prior to Michael going solo.  Years ago I had a dream about me living in Colorado seeing SCI in a mountain venue.  At some point during this show I thought about how that dream had been realized.