1959 Winter Dance Party Poster 11 X 17 Buddy Holly + Ritchie Valens + Big Bopper

Description: Item specificsSeller Notes: Highest quality print, in MINT condition, professionally printed on beautiful lustre finish photographic paper. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States. The Photo Poster is packed in a highly protective hard photographic mailer and shipped via United States Postal Service (U.S.P.S.) First Class Mail within one business day (usually the same day). Famous 1959 Winter Dance Party Concert Tour Poster 11 X 17 Inches - Buddy Holly and The Crickets - Ritchie Valens - The Big Bopper - Dion and The Belmonts - Frankie Sardo - Legendary American Music - Original Artwork - Vintage - Memorabilia - The Fifties - Rock and Roll Pioneers - The Day The Music Died - Rare Art Print. Description: Stunning concert poster from the legendary Winter Dance Party 59' tour. Brilliant one-of-a-kind restoration.Tour Stop: January 25, 1959. Kato Ballroom, Mankato, Minnesota. Just a few days before the fateful last stop of the tour...The rest is history. Painting - Illustration - Drawing - Screen Print - Design - Photography - Artwork. Nothing Cooler. Greatest Wall Decor Available. 1959, Monographic. 11 X 17 Inches. True Color. Pristine. Fund Tidbit: In January, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper”, Dion and the Belmonts, Frankie Sardo, Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch set out on a 24 day tour barnstorming the Midwest. It became the most infamous tour in rock ‘n roll history. Organizationally speaking, the tour was a complete catastrophe. The shows were often scheduled hundreds of miles apart from one another as they zigzagged through one of the deadliest winters the Midwest had seen in decades, in the worst possible transportation available. The musicians crammed into a drafty bus to perform in small ballrooms and theatres and by February 1st, Carl Bunch (Holly’s drummer) had left with frostbitten feet. By the time the tour limped into Clear Lake, Iowa on the evening of Monday, February 2nd, Holly had decided to charter a small plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to fly to the next venue in Fargo, North Dakota following the show at the Surf Ballroom. At the last minute, Jennings gave up his seat to The Big Bopper (who had the flu) and Tommy Allsup lost his seat to Ritchie Valens with a flip of a coin. The performance in Clear Lake was electric and the music brought a joy that would remain forever in the hearts and minds of all who attended. It was a night that burned bright with some of rock and roll’s greatest songs and its brightest stars…and ended with the unthinkable. After their performance here at the Surf Ballroom, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, were killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off from the nearby Mason City Municipal Airport. The rest is rock ‘n’ roll history. Bobby Vee & The Shadows performed in Fargo, ND on Feb. 3rd, and Jimmy Clanton, Fabian & Frankie Avalon were substituted as the tour’s headliners. Frankie Sardo, Dion & The Belmonts and The Crickets continued until the end of the tour. That day was forever immortalized as ‘The Day The Music Died’ by Don McLean in his 1972 anthem American Pie. For many people, that tour and subsequent crash symbolized the end of a period in both rock and roll and American history. The innocence, it seems, was forever lost.

Price: 22.99 USD

Location: Austin, Texas

End Time: 2025-01-05T18:53:52.000Z

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