What kind of musician is Reggie Watts classified as with a Fusebox Performance coming up?
Reggie Watts (Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts) is a multidisciplinary comedic performer. Watts made his name playing and singing in various bands in the Seattle music scene through the 90’s to the present, but has now shifted to music comedy since 2004. His comedic experience includes the New York/L.A. alternative comedy scenes, SXSW, projects with The Yes Men, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Cape Town and Edinburgh Comedy Festivals, TBA Festival in Portland Oregon, New Yorks Under The Radar Festival, The Fuse Box Festival in Austin, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch Festival, SXSW, several BBC live radio events and was recently featured on CollegeHumor.com’s ‘CH Live’ stand-up comedy series. Starting in 2007 he began creating Experimental multi-media theater with long time friend and playwright Tommy Smith. They have generated two pieces, Disinformation and Transition. The latter premiers at the 2009 Under The Radar Fest at the Public Theater, New York. He lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn presently.
Reggie Watts, the classically trained pianist and jazz singer who interweaves improvised music with stand-up comedy; What you’ll find as you spend a little time with the Fuse Box schedule (www.refractionarts.org/fusebox/calendar.shtml) is that each project has its own strange spark that attracts and fascinates, if only by making you wonder how the devil someone ever thought of such a thing. Put all these sparks together, and you have a charge that’s almost irresistible, not just to audiences but also to artists, bringing them together and establishing – at the risk of overloading the old electricity metaphor here – a current that flows throughout all disciplines to generate new kinds of power and light. If you need to know why Fuse Box is different from the thousand other festivals in Austin now, that’s it. And that kind of electricity is what happens when the walls come down. Sources: http://
