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Jim Connolly

The Gove County String Quartet and Philharmonic

About Me

I am a Bassist and Composer. I studied at The New England Conservatory of Music just long enough to learn about Captain Beefheart . The day that I left school was the same day that I began writing music. I compose music for The Gove County Philharmonic, The Gove County String Quartet and Lit Moon Theater Company. Gove is a town in Kansas (We are not from Gove). Gove also means to stare stupidly (No reference to the town). We do stare stupidly...............

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Member Since: 5/22/2006
Band Website: pfmentum.com/circus.html
Band Members: The String Quartet is Kirsten Monke, Viola. Sally Barr and Laura Hackstein , Violins. Jim Connolly, Double Bass.The Gove County Philharmonic is all of the above and... Bruce Bigenho, Piano. Brett Larson, Accordion. Jeff Kaiser, Trumpet. Ron McCarley, Clarinet. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
Influences: Spike Jones, Aaron Copland, Tom Waits, Charles Ives, Eric Satie, Hermeto Pascoal, Carl Stalling, Beefheart, The Bad Plus, Bach, Scriabin, Mingus, The Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Bernard Moitessier, Joshua Slocum
Sounds Like: .....if a string quartet was a cartoon dreamt-up by Charles Ives starring Tom Waits
Record Label: pfMentum
Type of Label: Indie