WORCESTER — The keytar playing bear that has taken the streets of Boston by storm will be making the journey to Worcester in September to play at stArt on the Street.

“The impact of Keytar Bear can be made in two minutes and you can walk away saying I saw someone in a bear costume playing Michael Jackson covers," Gabe Rollins, the performing arts director for stArt on the Street, said. “It’s definitely in the performance art category for sure.”

Keytar Bear is a street performer that busks in Boston at subway stations as well as at festivals and locations throughout the city, he said. The recipe is simple: take one human, add a bear suit, mix in covers of people's favorite songs using a quintessentially 1980s instrument and you have internet fame. The busking bear has grown into a kind of local celebrity in Bean Town with sitings of the performer being reported on Twitter and Instagram.

"I had complete ignorance. I had no idea," admitted Rollins of when it was first brought up to book the bear. "I looked it up and said this would be so perfect for stArt on the Street."

Rollins turned to the Internet, eventually making a connection through Keytar Bear's Facebook fan page. The booking was done entirely through text and Rollins does not even know the gender of the performer behind the bear.

“I got a text from Keytar bear himself, herself ... itself,” said Rollins. “Now I actually have Keytar’s Bear’s number. It feels pretty great ... the whole thing is really interesting. The hype just kind of keeps growing.”

The hype around the performer has led to a great deal of speculation about where Keytar Bear came from and what the goal of the costumed performer is. In a recent tell-all interview with Boston Magazine, Keytar Bear revealed that when he or she first put the costume on it was a way to counteract racism that was occurring on the streets of Boston.

"I’m trying to kill racism in my own little way, you know what I mean? You don’t know if [I'm] black or white, you just see a little bear," the artist behind Keytar Bear told Boston Magazine in the interview. "He’s playing music and he’s having fun."

The bear will fit right in at stArt on the Street, Rollins said. The event is about performances and creativity of all kinds, he explained, and a person dressed up as a bear while playing cover songs is definitely performance art. The spectacle and street performance style of the keytar playing is an ideal fit for the event that spans over a mile of Park Avenue.

“Performance has always been really tough at stArt," he said. "People do not like to stay in the same place at stArt for very long.”

The bear will join 12 to 16 other performers on two stages, he said. stArt on the Street runs from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Sept. 21 with a rain date of Sept. 28. Keytar Bear is expected to play at various locations throughout the day.