Brandon “Taz” Niederauer took the stage with the String Cheese Incident during the band’s headlining performance at SweetWater 420 Fest in Atlanta on Friday night. The 14-year-old guitar prodigy joined the fray for a second set-opening “Close Your Eyes” before returning with vocalist Rhonda Thomas for the encore rendition “I Saw The Light” that closed out the show.
Niederauer and Thomas weren’t the only guests who sat in with SCI yesterday. The band also got some help from The Motet singer Lyle Divinsky and drummer Dave Watts, who added their chops to the live debut of “Get To You”, a new collaborative single with Divinsky that was officially released earlier this week. Additionally, SCI revisited their cover of Jamiroquai’s “Space Cowboy” for the first time since October 30, 2010, thereby furthering speculation about Jamiroquai’s potential appearance at the 2018 Suwannee Hulaween festival.
You can relive the entire first day of SweetWater 420 Fest by checking out the recording of the festival’s free livestream., but we’ve cued up Taz’s sit in for you below.
The String Cheese Incident – SweetWater 420 Fest (Second Set)
SweetWater 420 Fest will continue Saturday and Sunday with sets from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Umphrey’s McGee, Vulfpeck, Greensky Bluegrass, Tauk, The Infamous Stringdusters, and many more. You can check out a free livestream of many of those shows via nugs.net.
Setlist: The String Cheese Incident | SweetWater 420 Fest | Atlanta, GA | 4/20/2018
Set One: Sirens > Let’s Go Outside, Song In My Head, My One And Only, Get To You^, Space Cowboy#, Believe*
Set Two: Close Your Eyes@, Beautiful > Hi Ho No Show, Joyful Sound > Rumble > Falling Through The Cracks, Rollover > Restless Wind
Encore: Happy Birthday Travis, I Saw The Light%
^ = First Time Played, w/ Lyle Divinsky, Dave Watts of The Motet and Rhonda Thomas
# = Jamiroquai cover w/ Rhonda Thomas
@ = w/ Brandon “Taz” Niederauer
% = w/ Taz & Rhonda
* = w/ Rhonda