I have thought it was just a given that “The Lawrence Welk Show” would be on TV Saturday nights my entire life.

Kolkata’s Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE), one of India’s oldest bourses, may be celebrating its last Kali Puja and Diwali as a functioning exchange in 2025, as per a report by PTI. If this transpires, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born to German-Russian immigrant parents, Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead in Strasburg, N.D. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted ...

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 ...

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LAWRENCE WELK: GOD BLESS AMERICA, one of the most dramatic patriotic music specials ever produced for public television, will be presented on Sunday, June 8 at noon on WOUB. This two-and-a-half-hour ...

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 ...