The Buddy Holly Center’s annual Summer Showcase Concert Series continues its season on Thursday, July 17, with the Joe ...

The son of the late Tommy Allsup, the guitarist with Holly's band on the Winter Dance Party Tour that stopped at the Surf on ...

At just sixteen years old, Buddy Holly made his first appearance on local television. By 1955, his band, ... his style of music shifted from country western to rock and roll.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959.

The Buddy Holly Center’s Summer Showcase Concert Series continues Thursday, July 17, with a performance by the Joe Trevino Band, sponsored by Civic Lubbock, Inc. and the City of Lubbock.