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 ...

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.

STRASBURG, N.D. -- It has been decades since anyone has lived on the small farmstead that made this small North Dakota farming community famous. But listen carefully. As visitors drive up from the ...

My parents Chester and Peggy suggested I share with readers a wire obituary because they definitely found it of interest. They were surprised when I told them of the death of Joe Feeney, the ...

Norma Zimmer, internationally known as the Champagne Lady on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Tuesday at her home in Brea, Calif. She was 87. Zimmer, a 5-foot-2-inch blonde, was a featured soloist on ...

The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for four years, then nationally for another 27½ ...

Lawrence Welk was born May 11, 1903, in Strasburg, N.D., about a 70-mile drive southeast from Bismarck. The sixth of eight children, his parents were part of the wave of Germans from Russia who moved ...