The Michael Mayer-directed production drew inspiration from an 1884 shipwreck of the British yacht Mignonette (also the title of the Avett Brothers' album), where its surviving crew - deprived of ...

Bob Verini, New York Stage Review: The show makes highminded use of The Avett Brothers’s album Mignonette – the name of that wrecked British yacht – much as Girl From the North Country wove ...

“Swept Away” took a decade to reach Broadway. Masten first had the idea that an Avett Brothers album called “Mignonette,” about a notorious shipwreck, could form the basis for a musica ...

The Avett Brothers’ influence looms large on Swept Away, which includes the bulk of Mignonette, four songs from 2016’s Grammy-nominated True Sadness and one new track written exclusively for ...

The folk rock band made up of brothers Scott and Seth Avett (hence the name of the group) have had a number of hits, ...

The Avett Brothers playing Bottlerock in California ... Avett: Sort of the seed of the idea really came from our record "Mignonette," which I think came out like in '03 or '04 maybe.

The well-reviewed Avett Brothers musical “Swept Away” will ... Masten was inspired by one of the Avetts’ early albums called “Mignonette,” which itself was inspired by the harrowing ...

Masten is a Myers Park grad and Charlotte native. And he first had the idea that The Avett Brothers’ 2004 album “Mignonette,” itself inspired by a real-life notorious shipwreck and its ...