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.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Pop the cork and start the bubble machine: North Dakota has agreed to buy the boyhood home of Lawrence Welk, the maestro of “champagne music” and one of the state’s most famous sons.

Strange things are happening in the Citadel of Square. Inside the Santa Monica headquarters of the Welk Music Group, the champagne music that bubbled in the blood of mainstream America for four ...

The Lawrence Welk Orchestra will perform at 2 p.m. today at the Adler Theatre. The show will feature the orchestra as well as original TV-show cast members such as Henry Cuesta, Ralna English, Jack ...

The best-known products of North Dakota are wheat, livestock, and Lawrence Welk. More than 30 million people tune their TV sets in each week on Welk, 53, and his “Champagne Music” (Sat. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ...

Hip dude that I was in the early 1970s, I caught only glimpses of The Lawrence Welk Show on the tube on my way out of the house on Saturday nights. No doubt, to many Americans, Welk and his clean-cut ...

Norma Zimmer, the “Champagne Lady” on “The Lawrence Welk Show” for 22 years and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra, among others, died Tuesday, May 10, of natural causes in Brea, Calif. She ...