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Music of Connecticut
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Connecticut is a state of the United States in the New England region.
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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 and the Stamford Center for the Arts.
The Onyx Soundlab is the premier Connecticut recording studio, and has recorded and produced work both with Connecticut up and coming musicians as well as nationally established recording artists.
- The Alternate Routes, Independent music rock band from Bridgeport
- Apathy, rapper
- Fates Warning, Progressive Metal Band
- Brash, rapper
- Hatebreed, hardcore 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
- Cassie, R&B singer
- Adam Gootkin, producer
- CT/MA Music - Connecticut Music News
- CONCORA
- Connecticut Bluegrass Music Association
- Connecticut Folk Music
- Connecticut Music Directory
- Connecticut Opera
- Connecticut Songwriters Association
- The Hartford Chorale
- Hartford Conservatory
- Hartford Symphony - Connecticut's Orchestra
- Onyx Soundlab - Connecticut Recording & Production Studio
- CT Music Scene Website
- CT Ska Scene
- THA ZOO Records - CT Hip Hop and R&B Record Label
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