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ARC-0617

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Winter Dance Party Handbill

1959 February 2

0.07 (Linear feet)

The collection consists of one program dated February 2, 1959, for the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Dion and the Belmonts at the Winter Dance Party, Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa. The Surf Ballroom was the last venue Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens played at before dying in a plane crash on February 3, 1959.

The Winter Dance Party was a music tour that played across the Midwest in the winter of 1959. The tour featured Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and Dion and the Belmonts. On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, with pilot Roger Peterson while traveling to a venue in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Acquisition Note: The Winter Dance Party Handbill was received by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a gift from the Shubert Archives on January 4, 2016.

Citation: [Identification of Item], Winter Dance Party Handbill, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Language Note: Materials are in English.

Processing Information: Processed by Crystal Matjasic, Project Archivist. Completed September 20, 2019. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual. Collection processed through an Access to Historical Records grant from the NHPRC.

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