Make your own kind of Music
Drop into the relaxed vibes of California in the late 1960s where for a young woman “to do your thing’s the hardest thing to do.” Hear old ideas made new as you time travel back with Charlee Watt to the LA music scene and uncover the challenges and the changing opportunities for some of the unconventional women who were determined to make their own kind of music and sing their own special songs. Commune with Beatnik poetry, hit song and stories within the experimental communities of magical hippy enclaves to find out – was it really all peace, love and happiness? Following a sell-out premiere season in 2022, Adelaide Fringe weekly award winner Charlee Watt, still fresh from winning Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s coveted Class of Cabaret scholarship, will be your guide to “feeling groovy”.
Feel free to dress in your hippie best and commune on the grass half an hour before the show to smell the incense, enjoy a glass, have a conversation and listen to the blasts from the past. Dancing is welcome and recommended by health professionals.
Presented by: Charlee Watt Music
Charlee Watt has been “emerging” as an artist for a few years now, but at Fringe 2022 aged just 17, she won a Weekly Emerging Artist Award for her world premiere show – Both Sides Now – Joni and Carole – An interweaving of Blue and Tapestry. Following 6 sell out Fringe shows, Charlee who is from Port Lincoln has continued to take to the stage both locally and in metro venues such as the Art Gallery of SA and the Festival Theatre, thanks to supportive programs like Neo Teen and the Catholic Schools Music Festival. Finishing year 12 at the end of 2022, this 2021 Class of Cabaret graduate, described by Critics Circle member Peter Burdon as “one to watch” is making her mark, bringing the joyous music of the past to current consumers who might also like a walk down memory lane.
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
Charlee Watt …“has terrific presence, stage appeal, and a big, bold, keenly pitched voice….. She’s one to watch." - Peter Burdon - Adelaide Critic, The Advertiser