{"id":815,"date":"2015-11-01T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:14:44","slug":"craig-ebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/craig-ebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Ebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Ebel<\/p>\n<p>Inducted 2015<\/p>\n<p>Craig Ebel has been involved in polka music all his life. He grew up in a family with his mother singing and playing guitar. His father built and operated The Bel-Rae Ballroom in Mounds View, Minnesota. Ebel has been playing drums, keyboard, and bass professionally since the 1970s in all styles of music including rock, country, big band and old-tyme polka. Craig has performed with many illustrious musicians including Frankie Yankovic, Myron Floren, The Mrozinski Brothers, The Six Fat Dutchmen, and Joey Miskulin. Along with his wife Lori, they started their own polka variety band, DyVersaCo in 2003, in which Ebel plays the concertina. Ebel has been in radio since 1981, most notably with his syndicated show <em>It&#8217;s Polka Time!<\/em>. He has worked as an announcer, reporter, Music Director, and Producer of Music Programs. Craig Ebel has dedicated his life to promoting polka music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itspolkatime.com\/index2.html\">Craig Ebel&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Ebel Inducted 2015 Craig Ebel has been involved in polka music all his life. He grew up in a family with his mother singing and playing guitar. His father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[377,379,65,380,57,45],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-38","category-inductee","tag-377","tag-craig-ebel","tag-inductee","tag-its-polka-time","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}