Ask Me Anything with Jim Connolly

The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative and CAW Present:  ASK ME ANYTHING

A free-form online Q&A with Santa Barbara’s art & culture figures with stories to tell

This Week’s Guest: Jim Connolly

Tune in this Thursday, September 10, 4pm.

Facebook.com/sbcaw/live

Season Sponsor: Sullivan Goss Gallery

Episode Supporter: Ginny Brush

Ask Me Anything continues this Thursday with an interview with Jim Connolly.

Jim Connolly writes music and lives in Santa Barbara, California. Past projects included The Gove County Philharmonic, The Gove County String Quartet. Current projects are Lit Moon Theatre, for which he has worked as a composer and performer for 25 years, Toy Shop Ghost (songs with banjo and other things) and a radio style variety show called Live from The Piano Kitchen.

He plays the Double Bass, Saw, End Blown Flute, Banjo, Piano, and sings. Growing up in Massachusetts he played in rock bands and orchestras. He attended New England Conservatory and began writing music the day he quit school. Jim has received nine Independent Theater Awards, numerous commissions, and grants, and has been named one of the twenty-five most intriguing people in Santa Barbara Magazine. He has released eight recordings of original music.
 He has worked or collaborated with Nate Birkey, Gilles Apap, Van Dyke Parks, Jeff Kaiser, Brad Dutz, Headless Household, Jeff Bridges, Vinny Golia, Eugene Chadbourne, Glen Philips, Spencer Barnitz, Anna Abbey, and his brother Kevin Connolly.

Toy Shop Ghost began in 2013 as a vehicle for songs written by Jim. In the following three years he recorded three albums of original tunes (Broadcasting Live, Art Plunk, Sparks Spread Wildfire) and a fourth of songs from the 1920’s and 30’s reimagined with string quartet (Thrift Store). Toy Shop Ghost has traveled to perform in Germany, Poland, Macedonia, Greece, Mexico, and China.

We look forward to talking to Jim about the art of collaboration, his many varied and shifting musical styles, projects, and collaborations, and how he has adapted to change throughout his life.

Tune in this coming Thursday, September 10 at 4pm, for our happy hour free-flowing interview with Jim at facebook.com/sbcaw/live. We hope you’ll join us and submit questions ahead of time as well via our Facebook and Instagram feeds, or by e-mailing hello@sbcaw.org.

We are deeply grateful for the support of

Season Sponsor: Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery

Episode Supporter: Ginny Brush

The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is developing an Ask Me Anything video interview program during this coronavirus-restricted period, a free-form online Q&A with smart people from Santa Barbara’s art & culture scene who’ve got stories to tell.

Interviews take place live on Facebook Live— anyone can ask questions and participate in real time via the comments. (A Facebook account is not necessary to watch the video.) Questions can also be submitted beforehand via our Facebook and Instagram feeds, or by e-mailing hello@sbcaw.org.

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