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About Me

East Village Opera Company's encore in Lima, Peru.
More EVOC in Peru.
Bassist from Ottawa, Canada. In addition to jazz, rock and folk, I started playing the electric bass with reggae and calypso bands at 16. At 19, I was backing up reggae greats like Brigadier Jerry and doing opening spots for Third World and had been exposed to a whole pile of stuff, food, culture, questionable practices, over-indulgences, ack, cough, cough, cue the tumbleweed.
In 2004, I was the recipient of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, that allowed me to travel to Dakar, Senegal as the first western student of bassist Habib Faye, bandleader for Youssou N'Dour's Super Etoile De Dakar. That same year, I scored an invite to perform at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece.
2006 saw me with the East Village Opera Company at the Miss USA Pageant in Baltimore, MD, as well as the world-premiere of the Da Vinci Code film in Hong Kong. I was again invited (sigh) to perform at the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, where I consumed some brilliant bufala, risotto and imbibed some pretty damn nice super-reds.
Presently, I continue to play with the East Village Opera Company (when Richard Hammond isn't busy with Erasure), as well as the Marc Nelson Trio, Kobotown, Chairman George, Alex Houghton, The Miss Bennets, The Mighty Popo, The Yaa Trio, Crystin Schultz, blah, blah, blah , blah, blah.
Since 2001, I've been a proud endorsing artist for Elixir Strings and Eden Electronics Bass Amplifiers.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/2/2005
Band Website: stuartwatkins.com
Band Members:
Influences: Habib Faye, Pino Palladino, Borgonzola, Glenmorangie, Basil Mogridge, Philip K. Dick, Coronation Street.

Sounds Like: ...an oven-mit playing a clothesline.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New tunes by Amanda Rheaume!

http://www.myspace.com/theamandarheaumeband
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:08:00 PST

Mighty Popo’s Muhazi wins best group at Canadian Folk Music Awards

http://canadianfolkmusicawards.ca/cfma/index.php?page_id=71
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:24:00 PST

Crystin number ONE in Germany!

http://www.88acht.de/musik/charts.jsp?activeid=69&noExport=t rueA recent record that I played on, by the darling of German radio. www.crystin.de
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:28:00 PST

Trailer of Chinese Mini-Documentary - Tianjian Television

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4d61ac4f01000c3e.html
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:39:00 PST

Esessions!

I've just been added to the new Esessions (alongside some of my heroes)! www.esessions.com/stuartwatkins
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:45:00 PST

Richard Bell.

A super guy and a wonderful musician. Very, very sad news. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/06/19/richard-bell-o bit.html?ref=rss...
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:23:00 PST

Kobotown player on CBC. Sounds pretty good!

http://radio3.cbc.ca/nmc/artist.aspx?name=KOBO-TOWN&readmore =true
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

Video of EVOC in Lima!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRYMhnJltKAhttp://www.youtube .com/watch?v=sqA9AYzg72Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59D1G gyrgrIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WgFN2vD4KIhttp://www.y outube.com/watch?v=p...
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:26:00 PST

The Mighty Popo - New album.

www.mightypopo.ca has Popo's latest effort, with yours truly playing a tune (Imandwa) with Alvaro De Minaya and Carlos Santana.
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:52:00 PST

Cheza @ the Ottawa Folk Fest 2001.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdm2Vl1zaDA
Posted by Stuart Watkins on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:31:00 PST