Kyle Hollingsworth
is an american rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion.
Kyle is also an avid home brewer of beer, and will be releasing a specially brewed "Hoppingsworth IPA" on September 14, 2009. [1]
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Early Life and Career
Hollingsworth was born in Maryland on March 2nd, 1968. He attended Towson State University where he majored in music, with a focus on jazz piano. While attending college, Kyle played in the Baltimore-based psychedelic rock band, Black Friday.
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After moving to
Boulder, Colorado, he eventually joined the
The String Cheese Incident, an American
jamband from Boulder. He remained with the String Cheese Incident from 1996 until the band's 2008 hiatus. He has written a number of songs for the band, by himself and with collaborators such as
Robert Hunter.
Kyle toured in support of his first album under the name Remarkable Elba Kramer. He also tours under the names
Kyle Hollingsworth & Friends
,
Kyle Hollingsworth Band
, and
3 Foot Icon
(the latter featuring Kyle, Speech (of Arrested Development), and Chief Xcel (Blackalicious).
In the spring of 2008, Hollingsworth toured briefly with
the Fiery Furnaces as the band's second keyboard player.
Side Projects
Kyle released a solo album
Never Odd or Even in 2004.
His second album,
Then There's Now is due to be released on September 15, 2009. The album features Dave Watts (of the Motet) on drums, Ryan Jalbert on Guitar, Garrett Sayers on bass, and Damien Hines and
DJ Logic on turntables. It also features Liza Oxnard (of Zuba) and Alex Botwin (of
Pnuma Trio).
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Discography
- Never Odd or Even
(2004)
- Then There's Now
(2009)
References
- www.kylehollingsworth.com
- http://www.penseyeview.com/content/kyle-hollingsworth
- http://madisonhousepublicity.com/downloads/kh.downloads/KH.TTN.bio.pdf