In the 1970s, not a weekend went by at The Princeton in Avalon when the nightlife buzz wasn't regarding local rock stars, Egdon Heath, or local folk-ragtime hero, Franny Green. More than 40 years have ...

This past weekend in Swain Hall, the rock banjo opera “Sunnyland” performed on a stage for the first time. Stephan John Meyers, or Breadfoot, is the mastermind behind the piece. “Sunnyland is the ...

The singular, aloof note or chord seems odd, out of place even. Maybe that's a trait of instruments as distinctive as banjos. Their music, raucous and brazen, calls for a certain fellowship. They ...