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.

Soon after he bought his first accordion, his father said: 'Accordion playing is all right for fun, Lawrence. But it’s not a life’s work... You’d better start thinking more about the farm.' Lawrence ...

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 ...

A biography of bandleader Lawrence Welk penned by University of Saint Francis President Lance Richey has won him an Independent Press Award. Richey’s three-volume recounting of the life of the man ...

There's a 1939 film clip that shows Lois Best Herman singing and smiling next to a very young Lawrence Welk as his orchestra plays on. "You see her natural personality on the video. That was my mom," ...

ALGONA, Iowa (AP) -- You might think having a former Lawrence Welk band member move to Algona would create a celebrity stir. Dick Dale does have an entourage, if you count his wife, Marguerite, and ...