Toward the end of the Jazz Age, the music world ushered in a new phenomenon: the all-girl band. Connecticut’s contribution was the Novelty Syncopators, a New Britain-based group formed in the late ...

The musicians wanted permission to go backstage and see what boy’s band was back there playing, see how this thing was done. ‘It was pantomime, they got to have a band back there,’ they said. ‘Ain't ...

New York City is known across the globe as “The Big Apple.” But where does the name come from? Some say it’s origins can be traced to the heart of the Palmetto State, to the dance floor of a popular ...