Bandleader Lawrence Welk achieved fame with his bubbly “Champagne music” and beloved variety TV show — but the star’s grandson insisted his goal wasn’t to become a household name. “He didn’t care ...

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.

Several cast members of “The Lawrence Welk Show” will share behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running musical variety series tonight at the Paley Center For Media in Beverly Hills. Anacani, ...

Lawrence Welk, whose champagne music was welcomed into the living rooms of Middle America on Saturday nights for an unprecedented 27 years, has died of pneumonia at age 89. The buoyant bandleader ...

Lawrence Welk, the band leader whose folksy charm and bubbly brand of “Champagne music” shaped the longest-running show in television history, died Sunday evening at his home in Santa Monica, Calif.

Author Christopher Vondracek will discuss his adventures traveling through the Midwest and his newest book, “Dancing with Welk: Music, Memory, and Prairie Troubadour,” at 5 p.m. Friday in the ...