Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf ...

So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" ...

On Jan. 29, 1959, the original "Winter Dance Party" tour — featuring Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ... and-roll musicians were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

One flight attendant and 110 passengers were fatally injured in the crash. Marked as "the day the music died," Feb. 3, 1959, marks the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper's plane ...

including Buddy Holly. He brought the Winter Dance Party tour to Duluth on January 31, 1959. Holly would die just three days later in a plane crash, in what we become known as the “Day the Music ...