Music of Connecticut

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

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 and closed in 2009), 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. Norwalk is home to the Norwalk Youth Symphony.

Major performance venues in Connecticut include The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, the Chevrolet Theatre, located between Hartford and New Haven, The Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport, the 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, The Ü Party in Downtown New Haven and the Stamford Center for the Arts.

The Onyx Soundlab is Connecticut's major recording and production studio and is located in Manchester.

Inside the Control Room of the Onyx Soundlab Recording Studio.

Musicians from Connecticut

• Miracle Legion, Alternative rock band, founded in New Haven
• Blues Saraceno, Instrumental Guitarist
• 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
• Apathy, rapper
• Fates Warning, Progressive Metal Band
• Hatebreed, metalcore band
• Brash, rapper
• Life In Your Way, hardcore band
• Death Threat, 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
• 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
• Cassie, R&B singer
• Mike McKeever, Whiny Music, vocalist of album "Colors of the Room"
• Dead City, punk band including Pugs, former guitarist of Hatebreed, and Joe Dias from Lost Generation
• The Pist, Legendary Street Punk band
• Saint Bernadette - Indie rockers and Exotic Recordings founders, based in Bridgeport

Bold text==External links==

• b04rd - CT music scene community
• Yale University's Redhot and Blue
• CT/MA Music - Connecticut Music News
• CONCORA
• Connecticut Bluegrass Music Association
• Connecticut Folk Music
• Connecticut Guitar Society
• Connecticut Music Directory
• Connecticut Opera
• Connecticut Songwriters Association

• The Hartford Chorale
• Hartford Conservatory
• Hartford Symphony - Connecticut's Orchestra
• Music of Connecticut
• Onyx Soundlab - Connecticut Recording & Production Studio
• CT Music Scene Website
• CT Ska Scene
• THA ZOO Records - CT Hip Hop and R&B Record Label
• Nutmeg Punk - Connecticut Punk Resource
• WNHU-FM - New Haven's College/Indie Radio Station
• WXCI 91.7 - Danbury/WCSU Radio Station
• Companies Team Up To Draw Major Film & Music Projects To Connecticut

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