Lawrence Welk was born in Strasburg, North Dakota to immigrant parents who traveled from Selz, South Russia to North America in the late 1800’s. Life on the homestead was difficult but Welk developed ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joe Feeney, a Nebraska-born tenor who crooned "Danny Boy" and other standards for 25 years on "The Lawrence Welk Show," has died. He was 76. Feeney died of emphysema on April 16 at ...
I occasionally watch the old Lawrence Welk variety show. If you were a kid in the l950s, it’s a real time warp to see it again. There he is in the ether of TV reruns. I view the show these days like a ...
A 27-year-old man was shot and killed outside of a nightclub in Lawrence early Saturday morning. It happened around 2 a.m. on Essex Street outside of the Acqua Nightclub. It is unclear what led to the ...
The year was 1955. Ike was in the White House, Disneyland had just opened, and rock and roll was starting to rattle the rafters. But you wouldn’t find any swiveling hips or hound dogs howling on ...
We’re just home from a Lawrence Welk weekend, and by that I mean, total immersion in all things Welk. Three things came together. First, the debut screening of the new Welk documentary by Prairie ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Workers install a restroom at the Welk Homestead ...
The State Historical Society of North Dakota will celebrate a decade of managing the Welk Homestead State Historic Site with a free public event on Sunday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The "Life on ...
Prairie Public Broadcasting is hosting a documentary world premiere of the “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy,” on Saturday, May 31, 2 p.m. at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck. The ...
Join host Barbara Mandrell to celebrate the legendary bandleader in a 1993 musical spectacular. Join host Barbara Mandrell to celebrate the legendary bandleader in a 1993 musical spectacular not seen ...
Kristen Wiig revived her classic “Saturday Night Live” character Dooneese on the show’s 50th anniversary special on Sunday night. Wiig appeared during the first sketch of the evening, “The Lawrence ...