Music of Connecticut

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Connecticut is a state of the United States in the New England region.

[edit] Music institutions and venues

Following the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra is the fourth-oldest orchestra in the country. It gave its first performance in January of 1895.

The city of Hartford is home to Connecticut Opera (founded in 1942), the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (founded in 1934), The Hartford Chorale (founded in 1972) and the Hartford Conservatory, an institution of music education. The Yale Summer School of Music hosts the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, a major music festival devoted to chamber music. There is also a Connecticut Early Music Festival.

Major performance venues in Connecticut include The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, the Chevrolet Theatre, located between Hartford and New Haven, New England Dodge Music Center in Hartford (formerly known as The Meadows), the Palace Theater in Waterbury, the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, the Jorgensen Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, The Space in Hamden, and the Stamford Center for the Arts.

[edit] Musicians from Connecticut

Brian Theoret, Stamford, CT based Singer Songwriter - www.myspace.com/notesinthesandbox
Charles Ives, famed classical music composer and music innovator from Danbury
Redhot & Blue, Vocal jazz group
The Alternate Routes, Bridgeport band signed to Vanguard Records
The Hungry Hungry Hypocrites, indie rock band
Apathy, rapper
Fates Warning, Progressive Metal Band
Hatebreed, metalcore band
EMMURE, moshcore band
Life In Your Way, hardcore band
Death Threat, hardcore band
Wide Awake, hardcore band
Eileen Farrell, singer
John Mayer, rock singer
Rosa Ponselle, singer
Michael Bolton, crooner
Chris Carrabba, frontman for Dashboard Confessional
Vatican Commandos, hardcore band from Darien
Moby, singer and electronic musician, was raised in Darien
Brian Yale, Bassist for Matchbox 20, was raised in Woodbridge
Rivers Cuomo, lead singer and lead guitarist of Weezer, was raised in Pomfret Center and Storrs
Keith Richards, a founding member of The Rolling Stones, lives in Weston
Thurston Moore, singer and guitarist for Sonic Youth, was raised in Bethel
Paul Simon and his wife Edie Brickell live in New Canaan
Roger Glover, songwriter and bassist for Deep Purple, lives in Greenwich
Peter Tork, bass, keyboards & vocals for the Monkees, was raised in Storrs
Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A., third wave ska band
Hot Rod Circuit, rock band
Carry On The Fallen Hearts, screamo/alternative
Clint Conley, bassist/singer for Mission of Burma
50 Cent, popular rapper, lives in Farmington
Liz Phair, singer/songwriter, born in New Haven
John Scofield, Jazz guitarist
Peter Kowalczyk, producer/songwriter
Cassie, R&B singer
Adam Gootkin, producer/songwriter
The Sunday Drive, Powerpop/Rock
Choke Puppy, Punk/Ska/Hardcore band from the Burlington area
Mike McKeever, Whiny Music, vocalist of album "Colors of the Room"