GREEN BAY - John Daugherty was a 19-year-old Buddy Holly fan working at a local service station on Monroe Avenue and Main Street in 1959 when a concert poster from the Winter Dance Party at the ...

One of the identical twins who posed with Buddy Holly in a famous 1959 photo taken at the Riverside Ballroom has died. Joan Matti passed away Aug. 14 in Rothschild, according to her obituary. She was ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - It is famously known, tragically, as the day the music died. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the iconic Winter Dance Party, which featured Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, ...

MARION — A Winter Dance Party is coming to the Marion Civic Center Friday, Nov. 8. The event is a re-creation of the final concert tour of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. The concert ...

GREEN BAY - Sixty-five years ago on Thursday, Buddy Holly played the Riverside Ballroom with the Winter Dance Party. Sixty-five years ago on Friday, as Holly left for the tour’s next stop in Clear ...

On January 23, 1959 a tour bus set off from Chicago for a twenty four date rock ‘n’ roll tour of the frozen Midwest. The tour was named The Winter Dance Party, and the three stars were Buddy Holly, ...

John Mueller’s “Winter Dance Party” ® is the official live and authentic re-creation of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper's final tour and the only show endorsed by the Holly, Valens, ...

Teen heartthrob Buddy Holly joined rising stars Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson for the second stop of the infamous Winter Dance Party tour on Jan. 24, 1959, ...

The Feb. 3, 1959, plane crash that took the lives of rising stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson has long been referred to as "the day the music died." While that ...