Buddy Holly News

Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, aka Raveonettes, make a music journalist's task easy.

When Buddy Holly emerged on the music scene in the 1950s, he didn't have the California cool of The Beach Boys.

On Saturday, you'll be able to step back in time, to the 1950s, as The New Brunswick Country Showcase presents a '50s rock 'n' roll show.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is 25 years old. That's three years older than Buddy Holly was when he died.

In 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson perished in a plane crash while on tour through the Midwest in the dead of winter.

THROUGHOUT a career which spans half a century, Dave Munden has been the constant thread running through The Tremeloes' history.

Europe's most successful touring production with more than 200 performances a year, the show, named after the 1956 Buddy Holly song, features back to back hits from the 50's through to the 90's, mixed with feel-good comedy routines.

It could have been advertised like a vaudeville show: "Ladies and Gentleman! Two nights only! Andrew Bird! The Fabulous Fiddler! The Whistling Wonder!" And Friday night at the Pabst Theater, the way Bird was dressed - blue Buddy Holly dinner jacket, red-checkered square-dance shirt, bejeweled shoes - would not have been inappropriate for ...

Bath Cats and Dogs Home is playing host to a charity rock 'n' roll evening with local five-piece band Kabinrock on Sunday.

"Rave On" is a Buddy Holly tribute that will take the Van Singel Fine Arts Center stage for two 7:30 p.m. performances, Oct.

Scot Bruce, one of Montgomery's favorite Elvis tribute artist and John Mueller, the only artist endorsed by the family of Buddy Holly, will combine their talents in a special benefit concert at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on Friday, October 23 at 7:30pm. The evening will feature sets by each artist and a set with the two legends performing ...

In case you werena t paying attention, therea s a garage rock revival going greatly surpassing the one that happened at the beginning of the century .

ELVIS fanatic Rob Dingwall has created a pink palace called Peggy Sue's in the heart of Tyneside.

Waylon Jennings is the recognized father of the Outlaw movement of country, a rebel against the Nashville establishment whose recordings blended honky- tonk, rock 'n' roll and folk in a way virtually nobody else was doing at the time.

The following is a news release from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Montgomery, Alabama The amazing Scot Bruce , Montgomery's favorite Elvis tribute artist and John Mueller , the only artist endorsed by the family of the immortal Buddy Holly, will combine their talents in a special benefit concert at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on Friday, ...

Big Apple beckons Dunedin outsider artist Martin Thompson's art work will be exhibited in the American Folk Art Museum in New York over the next year.

The weather might not feel as pleasant as it did last week, but look at opportunities on your calendar this week and it will more than make up for it.

Last week, Lucy Vodden died after a long battle with lupus. Because I am fascinated with arcane trivia, I find her story to be interesting.

Marshall Crenshaw released his debut album in 1982, yet the music contained therein - a blend of 1950s rock 'n' roll and 1960s pop - evoked an earlier era.

What: By Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson. Directed by Ron Peluso with music direction by Gary Rue.