This year’s Winter Dance Party concluded on Saturday night with dozens of audience members onstage at the Surf Ballroom in ... that performed at the Ritchie Valens Family Luncheon at the Clear ...

Tuesday marked the 66th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of early rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). And to commemorate what ...

(Connie Valens / Ritchie Valen's Sister) <15:16:08 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT DAY? OH IT WAS DEVASTATING 15:16:13> Ritchie's sister - Connie - remembers the moment her family got the news. (Connie ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – “The Day the Music Died” is being remembered in a new way.

The Surf Ballroom and Museum in Clear Lake ... J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens. The plane crashed soon after takeoff in a frozen cornfield 5 miles north of town.

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. Watch the video above ...