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Rock the Roof schedule announced
Thu 2-25-2021
(Arnolds Park) The Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association has announced it s lineup of âRock The Roofâ concerts for the upcoming season. Executive Director Clay Norris says they ll be kicking off the season March 18
th with the group âRock a la Carteâ.
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Norris RTR Feb 25 cut If you know Rock a la Carte, they can pretty much morph into whatever they need or want to be for the evening. It happens to be the day after St. Patrick s Day so we re going to plan to have a little bit of a St. Patrick s Day theme that night, and we re still under, in March, we feel like we better follow the same protocols that we have been for the last couple of events that we ve had. So we re going to have a maximum of 300 tickets that we will sell in socially distance sets of 2 for 20 or 4 for $32.00 or you can reserve a booth that seats up to six for $90.00. You ll have to wear a mask at all times except when you re seated with
Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association announces 2021 Hall of Fame Induction plans
Thu 2-4-2021
243 West Broadway Street,Arnolds Park,IA
(Arnolds Park)-The Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association has announced plans for their Induction weekend, KUOO s Becky Thoreson has details:
Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association announces 2021 Hall of Fame Induction plansÂ
The Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association has announced that their Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies will now be held on Labor Day Weekend in the Iowa Great Lakes.
Executive Director Clay Norris explains. Typically we induct a class, they re voted on the previous September to November, and then in January they re announced and then they re formally inducted that Labor Day. There s a class that that happened to and they never got the opportunity to be inducted, because we had to keep moving it. We thought we could do it on Labor Day, then we thought maybe we could do it Memorial Day, and with the uptick in the
The legendary Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa has been added to the registry of National Historic Landmarks by the U.S. Government.
According to the Associated Press and Iowa s News Now, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued the designation to the Surf Ballroom in a news release issued Friday January 13, from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Surf Ballroom is sometimes referred to as the Ryman Auditorium of the North - a reference to Nashville s famous downtown music theater. Over the decades, the Surf has hosted thousand of concerts and shows starring the biggest names and performers.
The legendary Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa has been added to the registry of National Historic Landmarks by the U.S. Government.
According to the Associated Press and Iowa s News Now, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued the designation to the Surf Ballroom in a news release issued Friday January 13, from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Surf Ballroom is sometimes referred to as the Ryman Auditorium of the North - a reference to Nashville s famous downtown music theater. Over the decades, the Surf has hosted thousand of concerts and shows starring the biggest names and performers.