Friday, July 5, 2024 Doors Open: 5:30PM Show: 7:30PM

Tickets: $26/Half-Price Youth 17 & Under

Blue Canvas Club Presale: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 - 12:00PM CT General Public Sale: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 - 12:00PM CT

Deke Dickerson, award-winning rockabilly ambassador, hosts the show and brings the Rock N Roll with his band that has toured the world and played with Sha Na Na and Chuck Berry. The show is a salute to the musicians forever remembered for their classic early rock songs, and some for the infamous “Day the Music Died” in the winter of 1959. The show stars Deke, Laun Braithwait as Buddy Holly, Javier Trejo as Ritchie Valens and Karl B. Wallin as the Big Bopper. Extra points for dressing up in your 50s best! Deke Dickerson has devoted his long career to keeping America’s roots music alive while interjecting new creativity into genres of music that flourished in decades previous. Dickerson is 52 years old and has been carrying the torch since he was 13, playing in his first rockabilly band in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 22 and proceeded to find his primary band, Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics, his newest group, Deke Dickerson and the Whippersnappers, as well as several side projects.

Use your BCO+Pass for this performance! A BCO+Pass is a great deal, and a great introduction to Big Top original productions and our famed houseband the Blue Canvas Orchestra. 

For more info or to purchase tickets, call the Big Top Chautauqua box office 1-888-BIG-TENT (244-8368) or visit their website:

Big Top Chautauqua - Official Site