The inaugural Electric Forest Festival took place from June 30 through July 3 in Rothbury, Michigan. While music was at the core of the festival, the installation that gave the event its name occupied many attendees well into the night (see the video above). As for performances, the String Cheese Incident performed two sets an evening on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For the first two nights, the band opted to forgo guest musicians, keeping things tight for its four sets which spanned the band’s career. Then on the concluding day of the festival, SCI opened with an acoustic set that drew in many of the festival’s performers. Members of the Infamous Stringdusters first came out for “Old Train” and then the number of musicians continued to expand as members of Railroad Earth appeared for “Big Sciota” while some of Greensky Bluegrass also emerged for “Sittin’ On Top Of The World” and “Wheel Hoss,” with RRE’s Todd Sheaffer the lone addition to “Wild Horses.” As SCI closed out the weekend it also introduced a variety of inflatabale guests to the crowd (see below). The Electric Forest Festival also saw RRE banjo player Andy Goessling sit in with the Emmitt-Nershi Band, Corey Henry and Corey Glover appear with Galactic and SCI’s Keith Moseley and Michael Kang join Keller Williams for “Eyes of the World.”

String Cheese Inicident Setlists

FRIDAY

Set I: Best Feeling > Can’t Stop Now, Pirates, Song In My Head, Pack It Up, Rain > Drums > On The Road

Set II: Eye Know Why, Cedar Laurels, Resume Man, San Jose, Freedom Jazz Dance, Shantytown, Rivertrance > Tom Sawyer

Enc: Just One Story

SATURDAY

Set I: Lester Poem, Colorado Bluebird Sky, Rhum N’ Zouc, Little Hands > Dudley’s Kitchen, Sometimes A River, Betray The Dark, Close Your Eyes > 21st Century Schizoid Man

Set II: Desert Dawn > Kashmir, Lands End > Glory Chords, Piece of Mine, Rosie, BOTWP > Restless Wind

Enc: Tore Up Over You > Desert Dawn

SUNDAY

Set I: Chili Dawg, Up The Canyon, Old Train*, Big Sciota^, Sittin’ On Top Of The World**, Wheel Hoss**, Wild Horses^^, Way Back Home, Looking Glass > Jessica

Set II: Rhythm of the Road, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) > Heads Up Jam > Valley of the Jig, Cottonmouth, Howard, Jellyfish > Dirk

Enc: Shakin’ the Tree

Notes: *with members of Infamous Stringdusters ^with members of Railroad Earth and Infamous Stringdusters ** with members of Railroad Earth, Infamous Stringdusters, Greensky Bluegrass ^^with Todd Sheaffer of Railroad Earth $Last time played 7/13/07