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The music of Iowa includes such notable musicians as Slipknot, Bix Beiderbecke and Greg Brown, as well as Meredith Willson, composer of The Music Man, and Alice Ettinger who was renowned enough to perform in Europe in the 1890s. The city of Walnut is home to the National Traditional Country Music Association (NTCMA), which produces programs for local radio and television in Iowa. NTCMA also operates the Walnut Country Opera House, which is a theatre and home to several halls of fame and museums. The town of Clear Lake is known as the place the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens took off from on the day they died; their last performance was at the Surf Ballroom. The Escorts (Iowa band) (Do's & Don'ts) are one of the first bands to be inducted into the Iowa Rock N Roll Music Association's Hall of Fame.

Contents 1 Festivals 2 Music institutions and venues 3 Ethnic musicians and groups 4 References 5 Notes 6 External links

Clear Lake is also home to the annual Buddy Holly Tribute festival. There is a National Old-Time Country Music Contest and Festival in Avoca, which draws upwards of 50,000 people according to the The Country Music Lover's Guide to the U.S.A..^[1]. Iowa is also home to the Iowa Women's Music Festival and the Central Iowa Traditional Dance and Music Festival in Ames.

Music institutions and venues Iowa is also home to the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Metro Opera, Cedar Rapids OperaCedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, and the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra. The Cedar Rapids Symphony premiered in 1921, and continued to perform through the Great Depression and World War 2, one of the few symphonies to perform continually through this period, and is thus the oldest continually operating symphony west of the Mississippi River [2].

The three major University music institutions in Iowa include the Iowa State University School of Music in Ames, University of Iowa School of Music in Iowa City, and The University of Northern Iowa School of Music in Cedar Falls. Other colleges with music programs include Wartburg, Luther, Cornell, Morningside, and Drake, among others. Also, there is the Celtic Music Association of Des Moines. Major venues include the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines.

Performing Yiddish and Israeli folks music, the Java Jews are a (Jewish) Klezmer group based in Des Moines. Performed at the 2003, 2004 Iowa State Fair. [See external link]

• Byron, Janet (1996). Country Music Lover's Guide to the U.S.A., 1st ed., New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-14300-1. 
• About the Cedar Rapids Symphony. Cedar Rapids Symphony. Retrieved on December 3, 2005.

1. ^  Byron, pgs. 66-67
2. ^  Cedar Rapids Symphony

• Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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