Marc Savoy Renounces the Accordion

In a stunning turn-around from his entire career, master Cajun accordionist and master Cajun accordion builder Marc Savoy has renounced the accordion.

Citing the fact that the accordion was not a part of the culture of the Acadians who arrived in Louisiana from Nova Scotia, Savoy has recently begun to refer to the squeezebox as "an interloper" and called its introduction into Cajun music "a pollution of the twin-fiddle beauty of the original music of the Acadians."

All of this was reported recently in the Lawtell Bugler, which boasts that it will publish "all that's shit to print."

Asked what Savoy would do with his accordion building business, he said you could "stick it."

Reported: 1 April 2008 (aka April Fool's Day)