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 ...
Sevan Garabedian of Canada will be visiting Coshocton on Feb. 13 to visit the Coshocton Armory and those who attended the Winter Dance Party tour concert on Feb. 12, 1959. Garabedian was to visit last ...
Tris Schnepper said he was devastated when he heard the news that Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in the early morning hours following his Feb. 2, 1959, performance at the Surf Ballroom in ...
Its greatest claim to fame was a show that never happened. The Cinderella Ballroom, a music and dance hall that had its ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Step back in time to 1959 as the Capitol Theatre in Davenport hosts a tribute concert honoring three musicians killed just days after they performed in Davenport. On Jan. 29, 1959, ...
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, ...
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 ...
COSHOCTON − Coshocton has a unique spot in one of the most tragic events in rock'n'roll history and because of that has long been a destination an amateur music historian from Canada has wanted to ...