Music
Press
“She sings with mountain spring clarity-pure and sweet-yet with enough emotional intensity to raise the hair on the back of your neck”
- Houston Chronicle
“When she lets loose, she is a singer to take note of, sounding like nobody’s copy”
- Dallas Times Herald
“Connie mesmerizes an audience..so much so, in fact, she could sing all night and nobody would mind”.
- Austin American Statesman
Discography
Connie Mims- album of original tunes, released 1984 on Canela Records
"All Through My Days"- Co-writer with Vince Bell; recorded on Vince's record Texas Plates
Wheatfield- CD released November 2004, Canela Records
Wheatfield- Live Performance at the 2005 Kerrville Folk Festival
H.A.A.M. Compilation CD, 2005
Wheatfield "Second Chances"; July 2007
"Go Deep" -CD on Canela Records, released January 2008
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Bio
Performed as both headliner and as opening act for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Roger McGuinn, Firefall, B.W. Stevenson, The Charlie Daniels Band, Restless Heart, Tracy Nelson, Leon Redbone, Ramsey Lewis, Jerry Jeff Walker and Bruce Cockburn.
Festival performances include the Kerrville Folk Festival, Houston International Festival, Galveston Mardi Gras, Freedom Festival and The Great Tastes of Houston. Represented Houston, Texas at the American Festival in Chiba City, Japan, 1994, with the band Nobody's Fool.
College performances include: University of Houston, University of Texas at Austin; Texas A&M University; Loyola Marymount University; Rice University; Sul Ross University
Radio
Various radio jingles and comedy vocal impersonations for national syndication on the Q-Zoo network
Live performances and interviews on KPFT (Houston); KGSR (Austin); KUT (Austin)
Television
"Austin City Limits" (PBS)- with Wheatfield, Season 1, 1976
Blue Bell Ice Cream--"Musicians II", 1989, produced by Lyle Metzdorf
Various local broadcasts 1974-Present
Songwriter
Composed original scores for the touring ballets "Caliban" and "Rasputin" for the Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth and Chicago Ballet companies (1976-1978)
"All Through My Days"- Co-writer with Vince Bell; recorded on Vince's record Texas Plates
Honorable Mention Award, 2004 CMT/NSAI Songwriter Contest for "Maybe By Topeka"
Member Affiliate: Nashville Songwriters Association, Woodlands Songwriters Association, Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians, Broadcast Music, Inc.; Board of Governors, Texas Chapter, The Recording Academy, 2005-08
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