STG Presents The Decemberists & Reggie Watts

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

The Decemberists
Date: August 22, 2011 @ 7:00pm
Venue: Marymoor Park
Price: $35.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On Sale: Friday, June 3rd @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Ticketmaster.com, in person at all Ticketmaster outlets, or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000. Tickets can also be purchased online at ConcertsAtMarymoor.com. Produced in association with The Lakeside Group & Live Nation. More info can be found online at STGPresents.org.

Life as a musician means continual evolution. Over the course of a career, any band worth paying attention to will pursue a sound, a direction, until it triggers a different idea and they're chasing some other distant dream. With their sixth album, The King Is Dead, The Decemberists illustrate the power that comes from this kind of creative call-and-response. When the band completed their wildly ambitious 2009 song cycle The Hazards of Love, frontman and primary songwriter Colin Meloy said that "doing this album took a lot out of me, and I'm definitely curious what will come out now that I've gotten it out of my system." The Hazards of Love, a narrative suite that grew out of old English folk tunes, met with widespread acclaim (Mojo wrote that "this spellbinding work peaks and soars with all the warmth and wonder of some great romantic adventure," while Rolling Stone gave the album four stars), and was followed by a grand-scale tour in which The Decemberists performed the project in full. But by that time, Meloy was already feeling the pull of another approach. "Hazards was actually a bit self-destructive," he says. "We knew people might have a hard time getting into it. On tour, we would play the whole thing-but once we were onstage at Bonnaroo or wherever, I just kind of wanted to play some normal songs!" Inspired by a move to a more rural area outside the band's base of Portland, Oregon, Meloy took a few songs that had been left off of Hazards and started working on the kind of project he had long been thinking about-a set of more stripped-down, country-based songs. The mostly-acoustic arrangements on The King Is Dead showcase the ways in which The Decemberists-Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen-sound just as glorious in simple, concise compositions as they do on the elaborate structures that have defined their work for years.

 

 

Reggie Watts
Date: August 21, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $19.00 not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission Seated (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 3rd @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Hilarious, brilliant, unpredictable - comedian/musician Reggie Watts is a staple of the international performance scene. Reggie's improvised musical sets are created on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and a looping machine. No two songs are ever the same. An avowed "disinformationist," Reggie loves to disorientate his audiences in the most entertaining way. You may not know what Reggie is going to do, but that's okay - he doesn't either. As a solo performer, Reggie was handpicked by Conan O'Brien to open nightly on Conan's entire North American "Prohibted From Being Funny on Television" tour. Reggie was featured as "Hot Comedian" in Rolling Stone's Hot Issue 2010, named SPIN Magazine's "Best New Comedian" and "Best of CMJ" 2010, and a featured profile in GQ's Man Of The Year issue 2010. Reggie released his debut comedy cd/dvd 'Why $#!+ So Crazy?' on Comedy Central Records in May 2010. He has a new album entitled 'Reggie Watts Live at Third Man Records' which will be available limited edition vinyl Spring 2011. On screen, Reggie has appeared on The Conan O'Brien Show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, HBO's The Yes Men Save The World, Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues, Iceland TV, UK's "Funny Or Die," PBS' revamped Electric Company and the music video "What About Blowjobs?" for College Humor. Reggie can also be seen in short comedic interstitials during Comedy Central's late night block and has a pilot for the channel in the works.

ABOUT STG:
STG is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a variety of shows from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and Jazz or comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and at venues throughout Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.

 

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