Soon after he bought his first accordion, his father said: 'Accordion playing is all right for fun, Lawrence. But it’s not a life’s work... You’d better start thinking more about the farm.' Lawrence ...

STRASBURG, N.D. -- It has been decades since anyone has lived on the small farmstead that made this small North Dakota farming community famous. But listen carefully. As visitors drive up from the ...

Myron Floren, an accordion player who entertained generations of television viewers on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died last Saturday. He was 85.

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 ...

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) Myron Floren, an accordion player who entertained generations of television viewers on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Saturday. He was 85. Floren died of cancer at ...

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 ...