Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been beseiged by phone calls, emails, and homing pigeons from concerned friends and family, most of them asking the same question: “Are you insane? How could you forsake the accordion for the banjo?” Few put it as eloquently as this email from one of our readers:
“I play music with a banjo player, but those guys have plenty of sites and publicity. We Accordion-Americans and our co-accordionists around the planet need an ACCORDION site.”
With those words in mind, I’m abandoning the now-infamous “banjo plan” and returning Let’s Polka to its regularly scheduled programming — all accordion, all the time. Our brief national nightmare is over, and I hope we can move on with a greater appreciation for both instruments. After all, where would Cleveland-style polkas be without accordions and banjos?
(For those who missed the hullabaloo, see my last post and a screenshot of what the site looked like yesterday.)
2 Comments:
hahahahahah
Actually I thought it was a beautifully executed April Fools job and I even enjoyed jumpin around all the banjo links.
As my youngest son is also a banjo player I even ended up putting a few links in my favorites for his use later.
But the overall headings and complete style change to banjo while keeping with the format of the Polka site? fantastic! it was not only a fun April Fools, it was a work of art :)
I especially liked the photo of the lady banjo player on the stool re: your usual accordion guy.
by Steve on April 2nd, 2007
Thanks Steve! I had the idea a few months ago, but didn’t really decide to go through with it until Saturday. I got lucky with that banjo girl photo — she just fit perfectly (and might be a good girlfriend for our usual accordion guy!).
by Chris on April 2nd, 2007