The Day The Music DIDN'T Die is an unfaithful re-creation of a show from the infamous "Winter Dance Party" Rock n' Roll tour of 1959 when Buddy Holly, sick and tired of the cold, broken down tour bus, deccided to charter a plane to get his band to the next stop on the tour. There have been many stories about how the final pasengers on the plane wound up as Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Waylon Jennings was playing Bass for Holly. He gave his seat to The Big Bopper, who was suffering from a bad case of the flu. Tommy Allsup, Holly's drummer lost his seat in a coin toss with Ritchie Valens (a good argument against gambling). At some point Dion was asked if he wanted to the plane also. He reasoned that the $36 that the flight would cost him was the same amount that his parents paid for their apartment in the Bronx, therefore he considered it an indulgence that he just couldn't reconcile. As we all know, the plan crashed in a snowstorm and put an end to three very promising careers. In our version of this history, the guys decided (along with Dion) not to get on that plane in a snowstorm. A wise decision. So... they're still around to play their biggest hits for new (and old) audiences! Now all these years later we're here to celebrate the music of the four headliners from The Winter Dance Party tour. We've taken some liberties with the facts in order to make our show a little more expansive. "The Girl Groups" that were popular in the late 50's through the early 60's were not represented on the original tour, so we thought that this was a perfect place to bring in The Sandellas to perform some great songs from the period. Don McLean's "American Pie" immortalized the event in song. In 1971, Don McLean, a singer songwriter from upstate New York released his album entitled American Pie, after the title sonh. The song was inspired by the demise of the three stars. Despite being 8 minutes and 32 seconds long, it was played constantly on the radio and became a huge hit with far-reaching effect that after all these years still conjures up the feelings from that special time and inspired our show. The refrain from the chorus, "...the day the music died." has become the reference point for the sad event of February 3, 1959, as well as the title of our show. All of the performers in our show are established pros currently active in the LA/OC music scene. More than simply a concert, the show is scripted with music, costumes and choreography.