The event features author Tommy Canale, live music from The Holy Rocka Rollaz, and special guests including The Valens Family ...

Ground is being broken on an expansion of one of Clear Lake’s most historic sites, on what will be called The Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment & Immersive Center. It will include a visitors center, a ...

A north-central Iowa venue best known for hosting the last concert of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson before the trio died in a 1959 plane crash is now a National ...

The Surf Ballroom, a 30,000-square-foot historic rock ‘n’ roll landmark known as the last stage rising musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson performed on before ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CLEAR LAKE — The Surf Ballroom & Museum has opened a new permanent exhibit honoring the legacy of Buddy ...

If the wooden dance floor sitting under the navy blue arched ceiling of the Surf Ballroom could talk, it would likely say that the music did live on at the rock 'n' roll oasis in Clear Lake, Iowa. The ...

The Surf Ballroom's place in music history has long been secured, as the site of Buddy Holly's last concert and the place where, as Don McLean sang, the music died. Now the storied 72-year-old ...

The executive director of the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake says she is thrilled with the announcement late last week that the facility has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. The ballroom ...

CLEAR LAKE - A north-central Iowa venue best known for hosting the last concert of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. 'The Big Bopper” Richardson before the trio died in a 1959 plane crash is now a ...

The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson gave their last performances before the "day the music died," has joined the nation's official ...

North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum and Surfside Hospitality Group, an organization that operates the Surf Ballroom, purchased the former Surf District Rock N' Roll Grill building last month.

The Surf Ballroom did not fade away. Sixty-one years after the legendary "day the music died," the Clear Lake venue endures, preserving the stage where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big ...