‘The Day the Music Died’ Winter Dance Party

A tribute concert featuring The Tichy Boys with Special Guest Johnny Rabb
For the rock ’n’ roll world, Feb. 3, 1959, the end to an era. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on the way to a stop on the musicians’ Winter Dance Party tour. The event was further immortalized in Don McLean’s 1972 hit “American Pie,” where the term “The Day the Music Died” comes from.