W*A*S*H Featuring JJ Schultz

Featuring JJ Schultz
with Kelly Anneken, DJ Real, Mikey Walz

An experimental variety show with modern day vaudeville, guest stars, stand-up, music, audience members performing with the East Bay 3 as their accompaniment, and a live podcast recording.

JJ Schultz
Hailing from the Wisconsin Northwoods, JJ Schultz captures the lonesome middle-America landscape with the wry clarity of Nebraska era Springsteen. Schultz’s wavering vibrato captures the snap shots of everyday people surviving the life of… Show more rural America. The dusty barrooms, the front porch steps and farmer's fields are images delivered with a subtle passion that's balanced between sparse guitar picking and a poignant vocal delivery that is as distinctive as Jay Farrar and Townes Van Zandt.

Kelly Anneken
Producer, writer, standup comic, @pandora_radio Comedy Curator, and all-around swell gal Kelly Anneken!

DJ Real
Nick Stargu is DJ REAL, a San Francisco-based alternative musical comedy act. Performing all original songs, complete with costume changes, bad dance moves, and interactive multimedia, DJ REAL's live act has been likened to the Talking Heads, The Residents, and Steve Martin. With a wide range of influences, DJ REAL's songs vary from hip-hop, to folk, to the bizarre.

Beginning in the Connecticut music scene in 2001, DJ REAL moved to the Bay Area, where he has been gaining recognition in San Francisco's eclectic music and comedy circuits. He has performed in a number of festivals, including: the 2008, 2009 and 2010 San Francisco Sketch Festivals; the 2011 NoisePop Festival; and most recently at the 2011 Bridgetown Comedy Festival. He was also part of the successful alternative comedy showcase, Things We Made, in San Francisco. DJ REAL has performed at the San Francisco Punchline, the Purple Onion, and other clubs throughout the Bay Area. He has performed on bills with acts such as Mike Phirman (Hard n' Phirm), Dragon Boy Suede (Who Charted?), and DJ Dougg Pound (Tim and Eric). He's even opened for Devo! He has released four studio albums, a movie, and is currently producing an online video series, "Video Messages for People Who Shouldn't Care".

Nick is currently promoting the release of his fourth DJ REAL studio album, Personal Growth.

Mikey Walz
I was born and raised in a little surf town called Encinitas, about 20 minutes north of San Diego, CA. My Dad, in his youth, was a traveling folk singer with a group called "The New Christy Minstrels", the same group John Denver got his start in. Later he became a jingle writer for commercials and TV shows. Most of my life was paid for by the theme song to the CBS nightly news. My mom, with the help of my big sister Kira, ran a vintage clothing store that happened to be located in the gayest neighborhood in downtown SD. I spent many a weekend in that store, skateboarding around the store between the clothing racks, occasionally helping a tranny pick out a feather boa or something helpful like that. For most of my young life I was plagued with terrible eczema all over my body, meaning that I off-and-on looked like one big giant scab. I always think that played the biggest role in building my sense of humor. Growing up with a skin disorder in a SoCal beach town is one of those things that either turns you into a comedian or a serial killer. By the end of high school I had healed up, made a lot of great friends that I'm still close to today, and was voted Class Clown in my senior yearbook. Not long after, I moved to San Francisco to study Creative Writing at SFSU. I originally had plans of being a very serious poet and novelist, but found that the work was too lonely and too long between gratifications. I ended up wanting to do something with my writing that was a little more light hearted and a lot more social. Stand-up comedy seemed like the perfect fit. Within a year of my first open-mic performance at a cafe/laundromat, I performed all over and at some of the best clubs the bay area has to offer ( including The Punchline, The Purple Onion, The New Parish, and the Mezzanine) and am now beginning to book shows all over the country.

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