MARK SHURILLA & THE GREATEST HITS

MARK SHURILLA’S
ROCKIN’ ‘50’s DANCE PARTY ™
A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens & The Big Bopper
& The Winter Dance Party of 1959

For over twenty-five years Mark Shurilla And The Greatest Hits have been performing the music of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and artists of The Winter Dance Party of 1959. We've performed in theaters, old ballrooms, at festivals, clubs and special occasions. We are dedicated to performing the music of the ‘50’s & ‘60’s in the original high energy style the music was created in. We also spice our shows with anecdotes of the lives, times, and places of the performers we feature. This is not an impersonation act, rather a “dedication” to the spirit of the founders of Rock And Roll, The great “American” Pop Music. The performances have been likened to Hal Holbrook’s take on Mark Twain, where our performances “get inside” the music and times of Buddy Holly and his contemporaries, allowing the audience to feel the drama of what created this exciting, timeless music.

The Winter Dance Party of 1959, which started in the Greatest Hits hometown of Milwaukee and ended in a plane crash in Iowa ten days later, has been called the “the most famous tour in Rock history”, by Ellis Amburn in his recent biography of Buddy Holly. Its end was called “the day the music died”, in the famous song American Pie, by Don McLean.

Whatever the case, the music is fun, to the point, and sincere, and performed that way by
MARK SHURILLA AND THE GREATEST HITS.