WITF Music: Reef Hustle

• Joe Ulrich/WITF
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  Joe has been interested in audio and music since he was a kid. What started as a fascination with his parents’ vinyl records and cassette tapes turned into a love of both performing and recording. He grew up in Elizabethtown, Pa. and moved to Pittsburgh in 1999 where he majored in Photography at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  In 2004, he attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in Tempe, AZ. He returned to Pittsburgh to work at a recording studio.
  
  In 2008, Joe arrived at WITF, where his skills have found a good home as an on-air host, audio engineer and producer of WITF Music. In 2016, Joe earned a National Edward R. Murrow award for Best Use of Sound.

 Joe Ulrich / WITF

Reef Hustle performs at WITF Music on March 3, 2026. (Joe Ulrich - WITF)

Reef Hustle stopped by our studio to perform two songs before sitting down to talk about the significant influences that have shaped his life and music. He talks about personal encounters with loss and resilience and drawing inspiration from diverse artists and life experiences, all of which have shaped his music.

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