Polka is Out
24 years ago, Polka was introduced as a Grammy category. Today it was eliminated from that competition. The problem is, apparently, that the number of albums being considered was getting lower and lower in recent years. Since there were about 20 entries last year, they decided that it wasn’t even competitive enough to make it worthwhile. Meanwhile, there are a lot of good polka bands, according to this article, but they aren’t entering as often and it’s not as popular as it would have been back in the mid 80s. Plus, one of the competitors won the award 17 times or something like that so it was hardly a competition anymore.
