guess that in addition to Euphoneum (sp?) players, they also need accordionists...anyone know of an ALL accordion marching band?? anyone wanna start one?
An all accordion marching band... yikes! Allthough that could go over big in Green Bay during the halftime of a Packer game. An accordion has got to be easier to play than a horn instrument when it's -10 degrees.
In Milwaukee they have the Riverwest Accordion Club. Although not a marching band, they're numbers sometimes reach 10 or 15 accordion players all attempting to play at once. It sometimes sounds like a large bag of cats in a cement mixer, but othertimes the synergy comes together and they can sound pretty neat. They're specialty is a melody of beer jingles from old commercials. Great stuff.
The Riverwest gang is a real rag-tag bunch with many more amatuers than real musicians, but no one really cares about that and everyone has a great time. I get the impression that they don't really rehearse, people just sort of show and play. A couple of summers ago, the Riverwest folks opened for TDA at Onapa Brewery. A great night of acccordion madness.