The String Cheese Incident (abbreviated SCI), one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s, formed in the ski mountains of Colorado such as Crested Butte and Telluride in 1993. The band was composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi (acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slide guitar), Kyle Hollingsworth (piano, organ, Rhodes, and accordion), and Keith Moseley (bass guitar)

Their music is strongly influenced by bluegrass sounds, as well as forays into rock, pure improv, calypso, country, funk, jazz, Latin, reggae, and occasional psychedelia.