FARGO — Prairie Public is celebrating one of North Dakota’s most beloved sons with a new documentary about bandleader and television icon Lawrence Welk. “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy” ...

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 ...

Lawrence Welk's niece recalls happy days at the family home in Strasburg, N.D. Fern Welk was a nurse and a nutritionist and a ferocious protector of her husband's diet, but when he came home to ...

Before he became nationally famous, Lawrence Welk and his band made appearances around the Upper Midwest. But there were times when he couldn’t keep an engagement for some reason. So who did he call ...

Locally owned Welk Hospitality Group has entered into an agreement to sell the Welk portfolio of vacation resorts, programs and property management contracts to Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. for ...

Joe Feeney, 76, an Irish American tenor who was one of the featured performers on Lawrence Welk’s television programs, died April 16 at a Carlsbad hospice, said his son Chris, a member of the L.A.

Pete Fountain, New Orleans jazz clarinetist who appeared on “The Lawrence Welk Show” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” has died. He was 86. Fountain died of heart failure on Saturday in ...