Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Everyone Should Juggle
Spitting fire and juggling has helped Bushwalla get 6 European tours and some 15 U.S. tours. The singer-songwriter-guitarist says mixing magic, comedy, and circus tricks has allowed him to take his “freestyle-funk-acoustic-hip-hop-vaudeville” act on the road.
“The biggest thing I ever balanced was an eight-foot surfboard on my chin. I once balanced five chairs at once.”
Bushwalla, who lives on Jason Mraz’s five-acre rural expanse in North County, has toured with his more-famous roommate and cowrote some of the music on Mraz’s CDs. Bushwalla (born Billy Galewood) met Mraz 14 years ago when they both attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. “We both ended up out here. We played at Java Joe’s in O.B. [in 2001]. When he took off to make his first album, I took over his Thursdays.”
Bushwalla’s third album, Old Street, was recorded at Mraz’s home-based studio and released last month. Bushwalla spent October through December playing 14 shows in four European countries.
“This will be my first trip to Australia,” he says of his upcoming tour in April. “I have seven shows in 20 days. There was a community of friends there who wanted to host a Bushwalla show. They knew they had to fly me out, which is a couple thousand dollars.”
Bushwalla says his fans often hire him to perform for private house parties. He says once he has secured the initial commitment for air travel, he then books himself for other private shows or public gigs. “I played at an art gallery in Amsterdam and at an ad agency in east London. In the U.S. I’ve played everything from golf courses to trailer parks.”
He says he now just relies on referrals and return bookings in more than 20 U.S. states. He won’t say how much he gets, but he says all his expenses on his last European tour were covered. “The fact that I can go to Europe regularly says something. The last time I went I came back with a little extra [cash].”
Bushwalla, 33, started in musical theater at age 9. “I started clowning at 17. Then I taught myself magic. I can pull 15 feet of colored paper out of my mouth while I’m performing. I have swallowed a 3-foot balloon animal. I’ve juggled swords, fire, clubs, balls, and any three objects I can find. I have blown a 6-foot fireball out of my mouth, but that can get risky.
“I think everybody should juggle. It’s an ability that everybody has but they don’t know it. The other day I saw a kid on the side of the road with his girlfriend, his dog, and his cat. He was totally broken out in poison ivy. I gave him some oranges, $10, and a set of juggling balls. I told him if he could juggle while he’s panhandling, he could become a master juggler.”
Bushwalla says he will bring his juggling clubs with him to South by Southwest, where he appears March 18 at the Hilton Garden Inn.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Everyone Should Juggle
Everyone Should Juggle
Spitting fire and juggling has helped Bushwalla get 6 European tours and some 15 U.S. tours. The singer-songwriter-guitarist says mixing magic, comedy, and circus tricks has allowed him to take his “freestyle-funk-acoustic-hip-hop-vaudeville” act on the road.
“The biggest thing I ever balanced was an eight-foot surfboard on my chin. I once balanced five chairs at once.”
Bushwalla, who lives on Jason Mraz’s five-acre rural expanse in North County, has toured with his more-famous roommate and cowrote some of the music on Mraz’s CDs. Bushwalla (born Billy Galewood) met Mraz 14 years ago when they both attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. “We both ended up out here. We played at Java Joe’s in O.B. [in 2001]. When he took off to make his first album, I took over his Thursdays.”
Bushwalla’s third album, Old Street, was recorded at Mraz’s home-based studio and released last month. Bushwalla spent October through December playing 14 shows in four European countries.
“This will be my first trip to Australia,” he says of his upcoming tour in April. “I have seven shows in 20 days. There was a community of friends there who wanted to host a Bushwalla show. They knew they had to fly me out, which is a couple thousand dollars.”
Bushwalla says his fans often hire him to perform for private house parties. He says once he has secured the initial commitment for air travel, he then books himself for other private shows or public gigs. “I played at an art gallery in Amsterdam and at an ad agency in east London. In the U.S. I’ve played everything from golf courses to trailer parks.”
He says he now just relies on referrals and return bookings in more than 20 U.S. states. He won’t say how much he gets, but he says all his expenses on his last European tour were covered. “The fact that I can go to Europe regularly says something. The last time I went I came back with a little extra [cash].”
Bushwalla, 33, started in musical theater at age 9. “I started clowning at 17. Then I taught myself magic. I can pull 15 feet of colored paper out of my mouth while I’m performing. I have swallowed a 3-foot balloon animal. I’ve juggled swords, fire, clubs, balls, and any three objects I can find. I have blown a 6-foot fireball out of my mouth, but that can get risky.
“I think everybody should juggle. It’s an ability that everybody has but they don’t know it. The other day I saw a kid on the side of the road with his girlfriend, his dog, and his cat. He was totally broken out in poison ivy. I gave him some oranges, $10, and a set of juggling balls. I told him if he could juggle while he’s panhandling, he could become a master juggler.”
Bushwalla says he will bring his juggling clubs with him to South by Southwest, where he appears March 18 at the Hilton Garden Inn.
Comments