When the Jazz Arts Group Big Band takes the stage this afternoon to play music from Lawrence Welk's TV show, the tunes will be a blast from the past, not only for the audience but also the players.

For all the talk in “The Music Man” of big brass bands and boatloads of trombones, what’s remarkable about this never-gets-old show is the way some of its best musical moments spring from the sparest ...

“The Lawrence Welk Show,” which ran for more than a quarter of a century and often featured accordion music from the late Myron Floren, was the focus of a special event held Friday at the Yorkville ...

Before he became a household name as the host of his own self-titled television show, Lawrence Welk was a hardworking bandleader shaped by the rural Midwest, European folk traditions, and the rhythms ...

Hip dude that I was in the early 1970s, I caught only glimpses of The Lawrence Welk Show on the tube on my way out of the house on Saturday nights. No doubt, to many Americans, Welk and his clean-cut ...

Champagne music and bubbles are coming to the stage at Stebens Children’s Theatre in Mason City this weekend. “Larry Wells and the Charming Harmonies,” sponsored by Children’s Dental Center of Mason ...

The Miracles only hit #1 once during the entire time Smokey Robinson led the group. That was in 1970, when "The Tears Of A Clown," which they'd recorded four years earlier, finally made its ascent.

Myron Floren was 4 years old when he discovered the accordion in 1923. Floren — born on Nov. 5, 1919 — was living with his family on a small farm in Roslyn, South Dakota, at the time. A nearby farmer ...

Born March 18th, 1934, singer Charley Pride, left his birthplace of Sledge, Mississippi, at age 16 and later became one of the most successful country artists of all time. But that wasn’t exactly what ...