Lawrence Welk was born May 11, 1903, in Strasburg, N.D., about a 70-mile drive southeast from Bismarck. The sixth of eight children, his parents were part of the wave of Germans from Russia who moved ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, The Lawrence Welk Show was a staple in American living rooms, with its trademark champagne music and gentle humor. Hosted by North Dakota-born bandleader Lawrence Welk, ...

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 ...

The State Historical Society of North Dakota will celebrate a decade of managing the Welk Homestead State Historic Site with a free public event on Sunday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The "Life on ...

I’m willing to bet "The Lawrence Welk Show," aired Saturday nights on NET, still draws a good number of viewers. Some of those regular viewers are people who mocked the show when they were kids.

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 ...