Music of Delaware

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Institutions
OperaDelaware - Delaware Symphony Orchestra - Wilmington Music School
Organizations
Delaware Friends of Folk
Festivals
Delaware Music Festival - Clifford Brown Jazz Festival
State song	"Our Delaware"
Topics	Music of Wilmington

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Delaware Symphony Orchestra is the largest organization of professional performers in the state, and is more than seventy years old; the orchestra evolved out of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra.^[1] The Delaware Music Festival is a prominent music festival.^{[citation needed]} Other musical institutions include OperaDelaware, the Wilmington Music School, and the School of Contemporary Music.

The state song of Delaware is "Our Delaware", with words by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine and music by Will M. S. Brown.^[2]

Recent, local trends include a surge in popularity for the blues.^[3]

Notable Delaware musicians

• Spindrift
• Gary Allegretto, blues harmonica musician ^[4][5]
• Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter^{[citation needed]}
• Cab Calloway, jazz band leader, retired to Wilmington, and died in Hockessin, Delaware^{[citation needed]}
• Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell of the band Television. Attended school at St. Andrew's School. Verlaine would later briefly attend the University of Delaware.^{[citation needed]}
• George Thorogood, blues/rock musician.^{[citation needed]}
• Bob Marley lived in Delaware for a brief time, during which he was employed at the General Motors site in Newport.^{[citation needed]}
• Boysetsfire, post-hardcore punk band,^[6]
• The Spinto Band^{[citation needed]}
• Omnisoul^{[citation needed]}
• The Caulfields^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. ^ Delaware Symphony
2. ^ Delaware State Song
3. ^ "Delaware Coast Press". Archived from the original on 2006-03-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20060302095255/http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234513.html. 
4. ^ http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=23393
5. ^ http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/March-2007/FIRST/
6. ^ http://www.boysetsfire.org/culture2.html#readmore