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The pilot episode of a television show filmed in North Iowa will be premiered at the Surf Ballroom next week.
A tribute concert honoring Mason City native Mark Sampson, a highly regarded recording engineer and guitar amplifier designer, will be held at 6 p.m. tonight at the Surf Ballroom and Museum in ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the designation to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, according to a news release Friday from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. National Historic ...
The Surf Ballroom is Iowa's 27th National Historic Landmark, joining a list including President Herbert Hoover's birthplace in West Branch and the Old Capitol in Iowa City.
Ground is being broken on an expansion of one of Clear Lake’s most historic sites, on what will be called The Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment & Immersive Center. It will include a visitors center ...
The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. The largest-ever reunion of Crickets band members highlights this year’s Winter Dance Party at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.
Mason City's artistic credibility hardly ends there. Just as neighboring Clear Lake is a fixture of rock 'n' roll history — Buddy Holly performed his last concert at the Surf Ballroom — Mason ...
Loretta Ellsworth grew up in Mason City and attended many events at the famous Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake while … ...
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rivals are coming soon to Iowa’s famed Surf Ballroom. Four Democratic presidential candidates are set to appear together on the same stage next month in Clear ...
Music fans make pilgrimage to Buddy Holly plane crash site and Surf Ballroom in Iowa Mary Bergin Special to the Journal Sentinel 0:04 ...
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rivals are coming soon to Iowa’s famed Surf Ballroom. Four Democratic presidential candidates are set to appear together on the same stage next month in Clear ...