Accordion Noir Radio: Recent Episodes
Bruce Triggs & Rowan Lipkovits
"Ruthlessly pursuing the idea that the accordion is just another instrument."
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From Punk to Piazzolla (a variety of loud rock and roll, and a famous tango composer). The most unexpected variety of squeezebox music you're likely to subscribe to today.
There’s a lot going on in this week’s episode of Accordion Noir — Bruce is back live on the air and apparently free-associating currents of themes as he navigates his way through his music collection. Is this episode about the current spate of warm weather, the recent folk music festival, or the discovery that the typewriter and accordion share the same year of patent? Yes. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
Accordion Noir 2026-07-22, Wednesday Comes Forth in July
Bruce recovering from the Folk Festival, the heat, the smoke, asthma, and so forth.
Pretty good set, except the end petered out as Bruce tried to talk over a typewriter sound-effect reel.
That’s the reduction of perfectionism that’s come with our return to live radio.
Catch the Fugitives at the Mission Folk Festival (Fri–Sat, July 24–26) and tell them you miss their accordion players if they don’t pull one out of the crowd:
https://www.fugitives.ca/ – https://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/
- Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.
Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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The Outside Track – ‟Madam, Madam” – Curious Things Given Wings (2010) – Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, Canada – Fiona Black, acc. www.theOutsideTrack.com – https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-outside-track
- Fugitives – ‟Graffiti Sex” – In Streetlight Communication (2007) – Vancouver, Canada – http://www.fugitives.ca/
- C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band – ‟Too Much Fun” – Too Much Fun (1995) – Port Arthur, Texas, USA – http://www.officialcjchenier.com –
- Alex Meixner – ‟Kimberly” – Stay All Night (0) – Denton, Texas, USA – http://alexmeixner.com/Welcome.htmlwww.polkafreakout.com
- Aaron Collis – ‟Before Daylight in the Morning / Bren Tobin’s Jigs” – Before Daylight in the Morning (2022) – Newfoundland, Canada – https://aaroncollis.com
- Diab Quintet – ‟La No Buleria del fantasma azul” – Seagull Tango (2016) – Liège, Belgium – Jonathan De Neck, Diatonic Acc. https://homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com/album/seagull-tango
- Rattletrap Ruckus – ‟Temperamental Rag” – Redlight Rag (2013) – Bellingham, WA, USA – www.RattletrapRuckus.com Lucas Hicks, acc.
- Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws – ‟I Ain’t Lazy Baby I’m Just Tired” – from Kevin Coffey’s personal collection (1947) – Fort Worth, Texas, USA – (Eddie Grady, or possibly Charles Goodwin, acc.)
- The Waterboys – ‟The Trip To Broadford” – Room to Roam [Deluxe Version] [Disc 1] (1990) – Scotland, Ireland, UK – Sharon Shannon, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_to_Roam
- Tin Hat – ‟Dionysus” – The Sad Machinary Of Spring (2006) – USA, San Francisco – http://www.tinhattrio.com/
- Amadou Barry – ‟Track 01” – Super Accordeon Du Fouta – Djiba Mane (0) – Guinea, Africa – I got this from Jared Snyder – NOT the cassette available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/amadou-barry-super-accordeon-du-fouta-b-3-lumben
- Al Dexter – ‟Fisherman’s Boogie” – The Original Pistol Packin’ Mama (0) – –
- Pinata Protest – ‟Apogee” – Necio Nights (2017) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – http://www.pinataprotestband.com/
- ‟Office, Typewriter” (Playing this sound effect record live distracted me so much I forgot what I was going to say. Uncomfortable live radio stumble here. Yikes.)
- Co-Op Radio – ‟Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
- Ongoing: Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio – If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode! – https://www.cri-irc.ca/
- ‟Office, Typewriter” – Remembered I wanted the typewriter sound-effect to introduce this “typewriter” song to commemorate the coincidental patenting of William Burt’s 1829 “Typographer” typewriter patent (first US typewriter patent) on the same year as Cyrill Demian’s “Accordion” patent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)
- Maria Arambula – ‟Typewriters and Guns” – Ray City, Georgia, USA – bit of acc at the end of this track. – Not sure if Arambula is the one who ran for City Council and did Library stuff down there in Ray City. Can’t recall if they sent us this track directly? My record keeping is fading out at the end of this episode. Blame everything on the smoke.
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast shines the spotlight on accordionic performances coming up at this year’s installment of the long-running Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which we have previewed many times over the past couple of decades. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
Recommendations not to miss at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival!
This year’s accordion groups La Déferlance from Québec, and Yagódy from Ukraine are both playing on Saturday, July 18. Do not miss Yagódy on the West Stage (over beyond the Main Stage) early at 10:30 am Saturday, because these two accordion bands at the festival are then double-booked at 4:40 pm (Sat) so you’ll have to pick one. La Déferlance are also doing a Sunday July 19, noonish shared-stage (“workshop” in Canadian folk-fest jargon) with Scottish small-pipe wiz Brighde Chaimbeul. Included on this week’s Acc Noir episode in an act of Bagpipe solidarity, Chaimbeul is also playing at Noon+10 on Saturday at Vancouver Squeezebox Circle leader Alan Zisman’s East Stage to the right of the gate past the kid’s area.
We also played Billy Bragg on tonight’s episode, who’s playing at the Festival Main-Stage on Saturday night. He might not bring an accordionist, but you never know when you’ll see one. If you do, let me know if you can and maybe I can interview them.
- Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.
Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
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CP2607 – until july 19 – ‟Van Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026)” – (0) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
- La Déferlance – ‟Forcalquier” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
- Yagódy – ‟Ne lamai kalynu (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
- Brìghde Chaimbeul – ‟Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed Of Mirth)” – Carry Them With Us – Songlines Magazine CD #188 (June 2023) (2023) – Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland – https://www.brichaimbeul.com – https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com
- Billy Bragg & Wilco – ‟Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (featuring Natalie Merchant)” – Mermaid Avenue (1998) – England/USA – Elizabeth Steen, acc. Eliza Carthy, fiddle. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Avenue
- Yagódy – ‟Koni (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
- La Déferlance – ‟Le bégayeux” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
- Geoff Berner – ‟How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box” – 7 Plague Songs (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/ – https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
- Monsieur Camembert (after Leonard Cohen) (and Bo Diddley?) – ‟Who By Fire (featuring Elana Stone)” – Famous Blue Cheese – the Leonard Cohen Show (2007) – Sydney, Australia – Marcello Maio, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Camembert
- Yagódy – ‟BramaYA (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
- Martin Green – ‟Etteridge – Featuring Brìghde Chaimbeul” – The Portal (2020) – UK / Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland – www.martingreenmusic.co.ukhttps://martingreenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-portal
- La Déferlance – ‟La coureuse d’érables” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
- Co-Op Radio – ‟Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
- Ongoing: Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio – If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode! – https://www.cri-irc.ca/
Geoff Berner – ‟How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box”– 7 Plague Songs (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/ – https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
Also: over on Mastodon they’re starting talking about #ThisIsNotFine and proposing everything from contacting your MP’s on up:
https://flipping.rocks/@nev/116919528182502589
“Postcards may be sent postage-free to any Member of Parliament at the following address:”
[Name of Member of Parliament]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6
Find your MP:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Inspiration comes from curious observations, and this week Bruce had one of the more curious, perceiving a numerical sequence in the date. Consequently all of the musical selections also involve numbers and numerals… something to dwell on while you contemplate the 120 buttons on the Stradella side of your piano accordion! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-07-08, Six, Seven, Eight
Learn basic Number Skills with the help of the Accordion!
This week’s tenuous episode theme brought to you by the inconsequential congruence of a few of the numerals in the date when lined up in the only logical order: 2026-07-08
Also mentioned this episode:
2026 ACCORDION SEMINARS
EVOLUTION IN THE REALM OF PERMANENT TRANSITION
Dr William Schimmel, curator – Our 32nd year –
Sponsored by: THE ACCORDION GLOBAL ASSOCIATION
July 31 August 1 and 2 – virtual
Master Classes at 3 PM – Concerts at 4 PM
Info and Reservations: – AccordionBill@gmail,com – 917 498 6823 – 212 876 0827
https://billschimmel.com/2016seminars/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2335542546964144
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NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca
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Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.
Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Creaking Planks – ‟Numbers and Names” – Flogged Round the Fleet () – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://creakingplanks.com/
- Flaco Jiménez – ‟Borracho #1” – Buena Suerte, Señorita (2015) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaco_Jiménez
- Unknown – “African Test Pressing #2” – Excavated Shellac – (“The matrix number on this disk is right next to one labeled ‘Zulu men,’ so this may be from South Africa”) – The story of this disk (and guesses on its origin): https://excavatedshellac.com/category/south-africa/
- John Delafose & The Eunice Playboys – ‟Joe Pete Lost His Two Women” – Joe Pete Got Two Women (2011) – Louisiana, USA – https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolie
- Henry Doktorski – ‟Three Preludes, 3” – Classical Accordion Recital (2005) – USA – henrydoktorski.com
- The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn – ‟Knock Four Times” – The Devil’s On The Mast (2023) – England, UK – Kirsty Merryn, voc; Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com – kirstymerryn.com
- Buckwheat Zydeco – ‟Five Card Stud” – Ultimate Collection (1994) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – https://www.buckwheatzydeco.com
- Paul Friedman And Jody Kruskal – ‟Wreck of the Six Wheeler” – Paul & Jody (2010) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://www.jodykruskal.com
- Amsterdam Klezmer Band – ‟Magnificent Seven Medley” – Mokum (2012) – Amsterdam, the Netherlands – www.amsterdamklezmerband.nl
- Blowzabella – ‟Eight Step Waltz / Lisa / Stukka Gruppa” – Compilation (1995) – UK – http://blowzabella.com
- Kurt Hoffman’s Band of Weeds – ‟Revolution #9” – I Water Your Dreams: The Complete Studio Tracks (1991-93) (2011) – New York, New York, USA – Anne DeMarinis, acc. – http://bandofweeds.bandcamp.com
- Pee Wee King (Frank Julius Anthony Kuczynski) – ‟Ten Gallon Boogie” – Blue Suede Shoes: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (1947) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Nashville, Tennessee, USA – http://www.bear-family.de Bill Haley’s “rock around the clock” a few years later sounds like this doesn’t it? This song is the ring-tone that reminds me to be ready to do the radio show every week. – My candidate for the accordion version of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_rock_and_roll_record
- Creaking Planks – ‟Song of the Count” – Untitled Demo (year?) – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – http://creakingplanks.com/
- Lozenge – ‟Numbercrunchr” – Doozy (2000) – Chicago, Illinois, USA – Kyle Bruckmann, acc. – http://kylebruckmann.com/category/lozenge/
- The Scarring Party – ‟Ten Thousand Steps” – Woke Up With Fangs (2011) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – http://scarringparty.bandcamp.com
- Night of 1000 Buttons Audience – ‟Eleven More Songs chant” – From the “Night of a Thousand Buttons”
Railway Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (Jan 25, 2008) - Summer Radio Day Camp PSA (play until July 20)” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
- Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
This year, for Canada Day, Bruce presented a slate of accordion tunes made by Canadian accordionists, past and present. Simple and direct! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-07-01, Canada Day Oh!
Donate Now – FIRST PEOPLES’ CULTURAL FOUNDATION
Accordion Hero Geoff Berner suggests donating to Indigenous language revitalization for Canada Day. Please join us:
The First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation is an Indigenous-led registered charity that funds community-based revitalization of Indigenous languages, arts and cultural heritage.
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/7008
Also:
* Nimble Fingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca
- Sponsor a child for Co-op Radio Day Camp! $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
Tonight’s playlist of Canada Day Content!
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Quartetto Gelato – ‟Anon: Dark Eyes” – Quartetto Gelato (2005) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://quartettogelato.ca/
- Ana Bon-Bon – ‟Snake Bite” – Night of 1000 Buttons (2008) – From the “Night of a Thousand Buttons”
Railway Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (Jan 25, 2008) – www.anabonbon.com - De Temps Antan – ‟Jeune et Jolie” – Les Habits de Papier (2010) – Quebec, Canada – http://detempsantan.qc.ca/en
- Ten Thousand Wolves – ‟Sleepy Eyed John” – Ten Thousand Wolves: Johnny Horton Remix (2014) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adler – (We’ve got to update her Wikipedia links)
- Philippe Bruneau – ‟Swing La Gaspésienne / Gaspé Swing” – Philippe Bruneau (1973) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=94
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/philippe-bruneau - Van Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
- La Déferlance – ‟Âmes des bois” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
- Elly Kelly – ‟Wotton’s Reel” – Home Sweet Home (2008) – New Brunswick, Canada – https://www.northumberlandnews.com/news/the-world-accordion-to-campbellfords-elly-kelly/article_d385b78f-7fec-5565-b6fc-1eeabeca2f03.html – https://www.weaverfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Elly-Kelly?obId=362006
- Loreena McKennitt – ‟The Highwayman” – The Book Of Secrets (1997) – Stratford, Ontario, Canada – https://loreenamckennitt.com
- Kapik Pudlat – ‟Track 12?” – Pangnirtung Music Festival 1999 disk 1 (1999) – Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada – From David Idoris Boileau (who made the recordings). “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangnirtung,_Nunavut
- Minnie White – ‟Coastal Memories” – The Hills Of Home (1994) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.rambles.net/white_hills94.html – https://www.fredsrecords.com/site/shop/minnie-white-the-hills-of-home/
- Gordon Fleming – ‟The Song Is Ended” – According To Gordie (year?) – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://famgroup.ca/gordiefleming/navigation/gordie.htm (Internet Archive)
- Polka Dogs – ‟If I Could Say I Love You” – The Bee (2018) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Tiina Kiik, acc. – http://thepolkadogs.com
- Joseph Plante, accordéon – ‟Marche des pompiers = March of” – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1930) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/pages/virtual-gramophone.aspx – www.nlc-bnc.ca
- Summer Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
- Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – https://www.cri-irc.ca/
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Greetings and welcome to another episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! Bruce is in a summery mood (a mid one?) so that has informed this week’s selection of squeezy songs for your listening enjoyment. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-06-24, Still Mostly Midsummarizing
- Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.
Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival is coming up – July 17, 18, 19 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Swamperella – ‟Bosco Stomp” – Swamperella (2001) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.swamperella.com/
- Alexander Sevastian – ‟D. Scarlatti. Sonata In D” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) – Thornhill, Ontario, Canada – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sevastian
- The Ciderhouse Rebellion – ‟As we party oblivious ” – And Even the Sheep Shall Dance (2024) – England, UK – Adam Summerhayes, fiddle; Murray Grainger, piano acc. – http://theciderhouserebellion.com/ – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
- Aldo Granato – ‟Aérosphère” – La Noche (2006) – Belgium – https://dionacore.be – https://www.facebook.com/aldogranato
- Hossam Ramzy – ‟Sanatein Wanahyel Feek!” (“I have pleaded with you for two years”) – El Amar (The Moon) (2000) – Egypt, North Africa – Belly Dance, Mohsen Allaam, acc.
- Lars Hollmer – ‟Boeves Psalm” – Swedish Summer Favorites (year?) – Sweden – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Hollmer
- Trio Mio – ‟Wrong Word, Right?” – Pigeon Folk Pieces (2005) – Denmark – http://www.triomio.dk/index_e.html
- Oysterband – ‟Mississippi Summer (Alt. Version)” – This House Will Stand (2016) – UK – http://www.oysterband.co.uk
- Michael Reinhart – ‟Bide My Time” – Echo (2013) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – www.MichaelReinhart.com
- Emily Portman & Rob Harbron – ‟Meeting Point” – Time Was Away (2022) – UK – http://www.emilyportman.co.uk
https://robharbron.com (Rob plays English Concertina in Leveret) – https://emilyandrob.uk/ – https://emilyandrob.bandcamp.com/ - Clifton Chenier – ‟French Zydeco” – Live! At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival (1966) – Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Chenier
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Clifton Chenier – ‟What’d I Say” – Live! At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival (1966)
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Summer Radio Day Camp PSA (play until July 20)” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
- NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Northern Ireland is still in the news for the wrong reasons, and the troubles going on there apparently motivate Bruce to defiantly put a lot African accordion music into this week’s radio playlist. He suggests some sub-themes going on in this week’s song selection and the commentary between songs include Régis Gizavo’s birthday and Iona Reed’s Titano Cosmopolitan Converter accordion, so if those topics strike your fancy, do not hesitate before hitting that play button! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-06-17, Mid-June Check-In
This very weekend! The Cowichan Bluegrass Festival – June 19-21, 2026 – https://cowichanbluegrass.com/
Added to last week’s podcast playlist, and referenced on this week’s show for their work in Belfast. Bruce is supporting:
Anaka Women’s Collective is raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. Every penny raised will go to transport, emergency accommodation and urgent supplies for families. Any remaining funds will be used to towards sustaining and developing the emergency response and solidarity groups that acted around the clock to ensure families were not alone. You can donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/185445-support-people-and-groups-impacted-by-racist-attacks?
Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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La Déferlance – ‟Hommage à Guy Thomas” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
- Hassouna Bangaladish – ‟Benayya (Little Girl)” – Hossam Ramzy Presents Azza: Music From Sudan (2003) – Sudan, North-East Africa – http://www.maqam.com/ (online Arabic music store, they also sold keyboards with Arabic scales, neat!)
- Nathalie Natiembé – ‟Tangaz Pa Tro For” – Sankèr (2005) – Reunion Island, (East of Madagascar), Africa – Régis Gizavo, acc
- Cirkestra – ‟Charivari” – Alice (2004) – Massachusetts, USA – FrickinCircus.org www.cirkestra.com
- 5 Cent Coffee – ‟AyaSofia” – West Coast Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar 2010 (2009) – San Francisco, California, USA – Heidi Wohlwend, aka “Doodles LaRue”, acc. – https://5centcoffee.bandcamp.com/ – https://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
- The Ciderhouse Rebellion – ‟New Kilns” – Genius Loci 2 : The Valley of Iron (2022) – UK – Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
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Iona Reed – ‟Dance of the Hours” – (With Karl Pukara) – World Accordion Champion (1963) – Sudbury, Ontario, Canada – https://www.discogs.com/release/18760114-Iona-Reed-With-Karl-Pukara-World-Accordion-Champion – https://www.facebook.com/groups/404911483574045/permalink/2113348506063659/
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Sam Baardman – ‟Someday My Father” – The Rookery (1999) – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://sambaardman.com
- Renato Borghetti – ‟Barra Do Ribeiro” – gaita ponto com (0) – Brasil (Brazil) – http://www.renatoborghetti.com.br/eng_default.asp
- Vaovy – ‟Vamba” – Vamba (1998) – Madagascar, Africa – Régis Gizavo, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Régis_Gizavohttp://www.rootsworld.com/freereed/gizavo.html
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Happy birthday to Bruce! He takes this opportunity to play whatever music he likes on his radio program, which of course he does every week anyway. This time around, the song selection is also informed by his takes on current world events, which again is somewhat of a regular occurrence. But the point is… enjoy this episode of our squeezy podcast! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-06-10, Bruce Day for A Better World with Surprises!
Bruce looks at his approaching birthday this week. While reading about events in Ireland where immigrants need support against racist attackers spurred on by billionaires. Meanwhile America is happening. (Bruce is a dual US/Canadian so he can’t escape it.)
And if that’s not enough for you, stick around for the very end to hear the grand secret of, “What does Bruce listen to when he’s not previewing accordion music for the radio show?” Let me know when I get my next twenty-year radio slot after this scattershot affair.
Again, don’t miss the Cowichan Bluegrass Festival – June 19-21, 2026 – https://cowichanbluegrass.com/
And the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Marrow Bones, Mary Beth Carty – ‟Mary Anne” – single (2026) – Antigonish, Nova Scotia – http://www.marybethcarty.com/ – https://marybethcarty.bandcamp.com
- Joanah Flor – ‟Xamego E Xero” – (2026) – Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil – https://joanahflor.bandcamp.com
- Geoff Berner – ‟Happy Rabbi Birthday (Bonus Track)” – We Are Going to Bremen to be Musicians (2015) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – www.geoffberner.com – https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
- Clifton Chenier – ‟Zydeco Cha Cha” – Zydeco Dynamite: Anthology (Disc 1) (1971) – Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Chenier
- The Three Vagrants – ‟Anna” – (1917) – New York, New York, USA – https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700004509/B-19432-Anna
Anaka Women’s Collective is raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. Every penny raised will go to transport, emergency accommodation and urgent supplies for families. Any remaining funds will be used to towards sustaining and developing the emergency response and solidarity groups that acted around the clock to ensure families were not alone. You can donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/185445-support-people-and-groups-impacted-by-racist-attacks?
- Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, Robbie O’Connell, Billy McComiskey and Tim Collins – ‟McNally’s Row Of Flats” – Absolutely Irish (2008) – Ireland / USA – www.compassrecords.com Tim Collins, concertina; Billy McComiskey, acc.
- Maria Dunn – ‟New York 1849” – From Where I Stand (1998) – Alberta, Canada – http://www.mariadunn.com/
- Lau – ‟Ghosts” – Decade: The Best Of 2007-2017 (2017) – UK, Scotland/England/Orkney – https://lau-music.bandcamp.com/album/decade-the-best-of-2007-2017www.lau-music.co.uk Aidan O’Rourke, fiddle; Kris Drever, guitar; Martin Green, acc
- The Klezmatics – ‟Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) feat. Sofia Rei” – We Were Made For These Times (2026) – New York, New York, USA – Lorin Sklamberg, acc. – http://klezmatics.com/ – https://theklezmatics.bandcamp.com/
- Gogol Bordello – ‟Underdog World Strike” – Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (2005) – Romany / USA, etc. – http://www.gogolbordello.com/gogolnews/
- Eva Ybarra y su Conjunto & Guadalupe Betancourt – ‟Tuve un Amor” – Pobre Palomita (1995) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – https://evaybarra.com/ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Ybarra
- Anne-Mari Kivimäki – ‟Pitkänvaaraan” – Ilja (2018) – Finland – www.AnneMariKivimaki.fi
Bonus: #NonAccordionContent:
Bruce’s earlier today listening taste (because the subject of this podcast really could get weirder)
All from the Crumplebangers’ mashup-competition Baby Shark Project:
https://remix.audio/profile/thebabysharkproject – https://crumplebangers.com/
- MsMiep – ‟Jesus Built My Baby Shark” – The Crumplebangers Baby Shark Project (2019)
- oki – ‟baby creep shark” – The Crumplebangers Baby Shark Project (2019)
- Basil Rathbone – ‟Monster at Large (sample)” – Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of Death (1942) – England – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pearl_of_Death
- Pinkfong vs. Annie Lennox – ‟Walking On Shark Glass (Justincredible Mash-Up)” – The Crumplebangers Baby Shark Project (2019)
- oki / John Lennon – ‟baby shark imagine” – The Crumplebangers Baby Shark Project (2019)
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
This week, Bruce got out of his apartment and into the CFRO studios two blocks away, where he hadn’t broadcast an episode of Accordion Noir live since the Covid-19 pandemic. Many things have changed, but the music is still all very squeezy! Broadcasting live is a more spontaneous experience, and we think you’ll be able to hear the difference in his voice as he improvises his banter. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-06-03, June it is a’Caiman In (Return to Live DJ’ing)
Don’t miss the announcements at the very end of the episode for the Cowichan Bluegrass Festival – June 19-21, 2026 – https://cowichanbluegrass.com/
And the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/
- Ian Robb – ‟Jigs – Tommy Clifford’s/Brady’s” – English International (2008) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://www.ianrobb.com/ – https://web.archive.org/web/20110703062145/http://englishconcertina.org/
- The Klezmatics – ‟Un Du Akerst feat. La Manga and Lavender Light Gospel Choir” – We Were Made For These Times (2026) – New York, New York, USA – Lorin Sklamberg, acc. – http://klezmatics.com/ – https://theklezmatics.bandcamp.com/
- La Bottine Souriante – ‟La chanson du quéteux” – Jusqu’aux p’ptites heures (2008) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – http://www.bottinesouriante.com/
- Rosalie Allen – ‟A Ha San Antone” – from Kevin Coffey’s personal collection (1947) – New York City, New York State, USA – (Johnny Newton, acc.)
- Debo Band – ‟Goraw” – Ere Gobez (2016) – Boston, Massachusetts, USA / Ethiopia, East Africa – Marié Abe, acc. – http://deboband.com/
- Carrie Newcomer – ‟1000 Miles Away” – Visions and Dreams (1995) – Indiana, USA – http://www.carrienewcomer.com John Cascella, acc.
- Pine Leaf Boys – ‟Pine Leaf Boogie” – Blues De Musicien (2011) – Louisiana, USA – http://www.pineleafboys.com/ Wilson Savoy, acc.
- June Tabor – ‟The Auld Beggarman” – Apples (2007) – Warwick, England, UK – JuneTabor.com ? Andy Cutting, acc.
- BU☆LI – ‟100人の村人 (A village of 100 people)” – Chitty Chitty (2005) – Sapporo City, Japan – http://www.myspace.com/buli1993 (MySpace, those were the days!) – http://www.sister.co.jp/english/catalog_e_benten.html
- Spektrum Lab – ‟A Kilometer’s Groove” – Outside the Box (2009) – Canada – Len Imbery, Roland synth acc. – I don’t have a current link for this record anymore?
- Cricket & Snail – ‟The King of the Fairies Buttefly” – Points on the Map of Heaven (2021) – Prague, Czech Republic / Canada / USA / UK – Lucie and James Carlson – https://cricketandsnail.bandcamp.com/releases
- That band I saw in Seattle at Days of the Accordion in 2022? – ‟Don’t do that” – (Mystery Album?) (2022) – Seattle area – Still not sure who this was. Maybe Toby Hanson or John Morovich on acc? Bonnie Birch at https://nwasnews.com/ helped put on the event
- Amy Denio / Spoot Music – ‟Hanana” – Tutto Bene Volume II (2026) – Seattle, Washington State, USA – https://amydenio.me – https://amydenio.bandcamp.com
- Cowichan Bluegrass Fest (Promotion) – June 19-21, 2026 – https://cowichanbluegrass.com/
- The Community Radio Initiative (Promotion) – https://www.cri-irc.ca/
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently passed. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-05-27, Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred
- Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
This special episode of Accordion Noir is dedicated to my dad, Captain Fred Triggs. Here’s a pic of my dad’s boat Nord Lys (Northern Lights in Norwegian) I got to go up to Alaska with him once. Glad we got to do that together.
Contributions may be made in his honor to:
The Edmonds Food Bank
828 Caspers Street L100 Edmonds WA 98020
https://edmondsfoodbank.org/donate/
Or the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society
http://nmcrs.org/
A full obit can be found at www.beckstributecenter.com
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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Figgy Duff – ‟Captain And His Whiskers/Fishermen’s Favorite” – A Retrospective 1974-1993 (1978) – St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – Art Stoyles, acc. – http://www.ambermusic.ca/artist_figgyduff.htm
- Van Dyke Parks – ‟Greenland Whale Fisheries” – Rogue’s Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (disk 2) (2006) – Los Angeles, California, USA / – Michael Thompson AND Neil Larson played accordion on this, because one was not enough. – https://www.anti.com/ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks
- Rufus Guinchard – ‟My Loving Little Sailor Boy” – Humouring The Tunes (1990) – Newfoundland, Canada – https://www.singsonginc.ca/index.php/artists/rufus-guinchard/21-ss-9091 Jim Payne, acc.
- Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – ‟O Sailor Boy” – Play up the Music (2024) – Wales, UK – http://cohenbk.com/ – https://cohenbraithwaite-kilcoyne.bandcamp.com/
- Peter Knight’s Gigspanner Big Band – ‟Haul on the Bowline” – Natural Invention (2020) – UK – www.johnspiers.co.ukwww.gigspanner.com – John Spiers (Bellowhead), melodeon acc.
- Rudy Sooter – ‟The Hills of Idaho” – from Kevin Coffey’s personal collection (1938) – Hollywood, California, USA – Harley Luse (1897-1968) acc. (Luse and guitarist/bassist Scooter worked with Tex Ritter, Scooter was born in 1904 in Canada according to IMDB.)
- Gerard Moloney W/ Colm O’Caoimh, gar – ‟Reels: The Boy In The Boat / The Gneeveguilla Reel / The Boys Of Tulla” – The Bunch Of Keys – Traditional Irish Music On Piano Accordion (2012) – www.KarenTweed.com
- Jayme Stone – ‟Boatsman” – Jayme Stone’s Folklife (2017) – Colorado, USA – Moira Smiley, acc. – https://jaymestone.bandcamp.comwww.JaymeStone.com
- The Unthanks – ‟Here’s The Tender Coming” – Here’s The Tender Coming (2009) – North-East England – Niopha Keegan, acc. – http://the-unthanks.com/ – A bit about the press-gang background of this song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment – https://mainlynorfolk.info/frankie.armstrong/songs/heresthetendercoming.html
- The Once – ‟Charlie’s” – Row Upon Row of the People They Know (2011) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://theonce.ca
- Kristin Sweetland – ‟Burial At Sea” – Own Sweet Time (2007) – Ontario, Canada – https://www.kristinsweetland.com/ (Lyrics on the website. This song is probably not what I thought it was about, so maybe don’t play it at an actual funeral? Beautiful and ambivalent so no regrets. Also more pirates.)
- Judy Collins – ‟Pirate Ships” – Judith (1975) – Seattle / Brooklyn, New York, United States – Dom Cortes, acc. (I’m still looking for the quadrophonic version.) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_(album)
- Minnie White – ‟Fisherman’s Reel” – The Hills Of Home (1994) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.rambles.net/white_hills94.html – https://www.fredsrecords.com/site/shop/minnie-white-the-hills-of-home/
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
This week your host Bruce had a little trouble with his heart, so of course he made it the theme for this week’s radio program. (Of all his organs that could have been cause for concern, just be glad it wasn’t one of the other ones he had to find an hour of appropriate songs to match!) If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:
AccNoir–2026-05-20, Hearts in Transit
Bruce went to the doctor and gets diagnosed with heart palpitations. (Usually harmless, but will get another test.) So here’s an episodes of squeezy tunes about watching out for each others hearts and such, with a bit of a narrative arc following my somewhat slow-motion but still stressful trip to the emergency room.
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Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
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The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases
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No idea where we got this first little fragment or who it is. But it kind of sets up my journey as I had a bit of a panic at the transit station when I got on my bus going the wrong way. – “Paris metro classical accordion busker Beethoven” (That’s all I’ve got down on this fragment. It’s actually Bach’s Toccata In Dm that they use to queue “horror movie” vibes.) – (France presumably. Year and source unknown.)
- Spiro – ‟Antrobus” – Lightbox (2011) – United Kingdom – www.spiromusic.com http://www.spiromusic.com/ – https://spiromusic.bandcamp.com/album/lightbox
- Amy Thatcher and Francesca Knowles – ‟This Town Is Big Enough For The Both Of Us” – Emergency Of The Female Kind (2023) – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – https://amythatcheraccordion.bandcamp.com/ – https://amythatcherfranknowles.bandcamp.com – http://amythatcher.co.uk/
- Basil Rathbone – ‟Heart of Mystery (sample)” – Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of Death (1942) – England – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pearl_of_Death
- Ariel Shapiro – ‟a tsebrokhn harts / zolst shtarkn (A Broken Heart / May You Strengthen)” – Lider Mit Palestine / לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love (2025) – Nonotuck, and Pocumtuc land in so-called Northampton, Massachusetts, USA – Visit https://lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com
- Ana Bon-Bon – ‟Gypsy Heart” – Bare Naked Blues (2007) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://www.anabonbon.com/
- Johanna Juhola & Lena Jonsson – ‟Power Nap” – Power of Polska (2026) – Finland/Sweden – www.nordic-notes.de – https://nordicnotes.bandcamp.com/ – www.johannajuhola.net
- Stevan R. Knezevich – ‟Sweetheart (Ukraine)” – Slavik (2001) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4984762
- Great Big Sea – ‟Heart Of Hearts” – Great Big Sea XX – The Folk Songs (0) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.greatbigsea.com/
- John Delafose & The Eunice Playboys – ‟You Took My Heartache” – Joe Pete Got Two Women (2011) – Louisiana, USA – https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolie
- Roy Newman & His Boys – ‟Down Hearted Blues” – Roy Newman & His Boys (1938) – Dallas, Texas, USA – http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/2007/02/roy-newman-his-boys.html Bill Stanton, acc?
- Ernie Felice Quartet – ‟I Have But One Heart (Pied Pipers)” – Ernie Felice (3 CD Compilation) (year?) – California, USA – http://www.erniefelice.com
- Heart Beat Band and others – ‟God Only Knows” – The Eve Of Peeni Waali (disc 2) (1999) – Czech Republic / UK / Switzerland, etc. – Tobias Morgenstern, acc. Denis Bovell, bass and guitar – http://www.mensch3000.ch/default.htm
- Walt McClements – ‟Parade” – On A Painted Ocean (2025) – Los Angeles, California, USA – https://www.waltmcclements.com – https://waltmcclements.bandcamp.com/ – https://lonesomeleash.bandcamp.com
- Sinister Luck Ensemble – ‟The Astonished Heart” – Anniversary (2002) – Chicago, USA – http://www.sinisterluck.com/
Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@accordionnoir@zirk.us) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle. Cheers & squeeze on!
(That’s the half-an-accordion in the title.) I don’t believe that last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has an underlying theme beyond “varied squeezebox music”, and I think that if you asked its programmer Bruce he’d say the same thing, so all I can tell you is: enjoy an hour of free […]
Here we go again! When live music venues shut down at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we stepped up looking for ways to financially support our favorite (squeezebox) musicians deprived of performance income — and Bandcamp’s “we waive our cut of the revenues” Bandcamp Fridays made them the most efficient way to take money […]
Relax, everybody! The world, well, the world is still in turmoil but at least we can testify that it is full of accordion music, and if you can take a moment to listen to some of it you might have a chance to enjoy a moment of cosmic connection and unity with your fellow humanity, […]
Hello, everyone! Our host Bruce was required to rearrange the contents of his apartment this week, yielding this curious playlist of squeezy tunes about moving both stuff and things. On the one hand, accordions are heavy. (On the bright side, Bruce doesn’t have a Cordovox collection instead!) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]
This year’s installment of the Clean Air Festival is coming up fast (this Sunday!), and this latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates it in a thematic way, featuring all breezy songs that have to do with blowing wind and gasping breath and everything in between. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music available on Bandcamp — which is hosting another “Bandcamp Friday” tomorrow, waiving most of their fee for music purchases made on that day, passing the windfall along to […]
We survived this year’s Accordion Noir Festival last week and now it’s time for us to stump for our parent radio station’s 50/50 raffle fundraiser (BC residents only, please!) with a set of squeezy tunes about luck and good fortune. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir […]
It’s the most accordionic time of the year! Our plucky little Accordion Noir Festival of the squeezy arts started as a Geoff Berner concert and darned if we won’t go out that way — hopefully many years from now. In the meantime, we are presenting a bill of three solo squeezy performers as part of […]
Squeezeboxes have been around for so long — nearly 200 years now! — that as a consequence of their long illustrious history, virtually every day on the calendar is the birthday of some notable related musician or another. On the occasion of the air date of this episode of our weekly alt-accordion program, that lucky […]
Due to technical issues, we haven’t been able to upload any new episodes of our weekly hour-long alt-accordion broadcast since the great Flaco Jimenez died at the end of last month — but now we can, so here it is, the first recording in our backlog which is a memorial tribute to his work. If […]
(More Panic! than juggling, but had I gone the other way Felovis would have been a shoe-in.) Bruce is never afraid to spontaneously curate an episode on a capricious theme someone has quietly designated in a calendar, unknown to the general public. This episode of our weekly accordion music program coincided with the general seasonal […]
You never have to wonder whether we live in the world, because every week things take place in the world and often they directly or indirectly inform the theme of the content we feature on our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. If our programming ever stops being informed by what’s taking place on Planet Earth that week, […]
There are simply no words. If our alt-accordion project of the past 20 years could be said to have a guiding saint, Guy Klucevsek would be it, a man with the chops to play anything and with the musical inclination to follow where those chops led him — everywhere! The first time we were called […]
We’re about a month and change off from our national holiday here in the Great White North, and yet for reasons known only to himself (still haven’t had a chance to survey the scope of the loss from Guy Klucevsek’s recent death) Bruce has opted to make this week’s program of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir […]
The clouds have parted, the sun is shining and Bruce is feeling under the weather and Rob Reich, famously of the Tin Hat Trio among other ensembles, has died. Sometimes springtime is callous like that. But we baked in a little memorial tribute to him in this week’s episode of our regular broadcast, plus nods […]
Greetings, folks, here’s the latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, sharing the greatest squeezebox music to be found anywhere… this week, shining the spotlight very narrowly on songs containing the words “May”, “Midnight” or “Garden” in them. Why? I guess sometimes your host Bruce gives a program its title as an afterthought, […]
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away… I jest, there is no Star Wars connection to last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast. It’s just our standard good, clean mix of squeezebox musics in a wide variety of styles from all over the world! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]
This week’s episode of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast shone the spotlight on (mostly) women accordionists selling music on the Bandcamp platform — as today is Bandcamp Friday, their best shot at actually getting paid for selling music recordings online all month! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]
You can’t fool us! Alt-accordion fans are always in pursuit of the new big thing, and so for last night’s episode of our weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce has put together a program of tunes looking at “artists with new music and upcoming projects”. I guess that means that everyone in this week’s episode is […]
Accordion Noir radio’s parent radio station, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, just celebrated its 50th anniversary! In recognition of the occasion, Bruce has stacked this week’s playlist of accordion songs with offerings dating to CFRO’s year of establishment, 1975. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you […]
It’s that time of year again, when lovers’ thoughts turn to accordions! Well… OK, maybe when accordionists’ thoughts turn to love. In any case, this week’s fresh episode of our hour-long alt-squeezebox broadcast is full of squeezy love songs, so we cover both possibilities. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you […]
A few months ago, our podcast host over at the Internet Archive got hacked, and it temporarily became impossible for us to submit recordings. And yet, our weekly alt-accordion music broadcast schedule kept up at its regular pace on the radio. Ever since then, we’ve been trying to get “caught up”, making episodes that dropped […]
We don’t often have the white stuff on the ground here in Vancouver, but currently we do and Bruce was moved to program an hour of wintry squeezebox songs on frosty themes for this week’s episode of our alt-accordion broadcast. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability […]
Already the end of January? Every day feels like a lifetime of torments and yet… the time seems to be briskly whizzing away. Well, here’s a fresh helping of accordion music to help the time pass. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy […]
There were a lot of disappointments last fall. Of course, the course of the US Election was a big one, and naturally the interruption of service by the Internet Archive by hackers also really brought us down, because the episodes of our program we had been putting together and broadcasting (such as the one that […]
Last night’s episode of the weekly, hour-long alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir program pays impromptu tribute to one of our patron saints, Garth Hudson of The Band, who died this week. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy […]
It’s been a rough century for trademark and copyright law, with much legal precedent for musical compositions and recordings thereof subject to decisions made in a bygone age governing punched paper rolls of player piano sheet music. In all the back and forth, the societal interest in releasing creative works to the public domain was […]
Due to unscheduled downtime at the Internet Archive, we were unable to share this episode online when it first aired back in November, and frankly the mindspace it is informed by is possibly better left behind us, but be that as it may it is surprisingly difficult to play accordion with your head stuck in […]
I guess there’s been so much AI in the discourse lately, Bruce apparently generated this week’s Accordion Noir broadcast playlist using the assistance of an algorithm. But I understand it had been trained on his curation, so the mentality guiding the trajectory of this musical journey was that of a Virtual Bruce, if you will. […]
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible episode from the night before Halloween, 2024, our final broadcast before the world as we knew it ended. Yes: by […]
Not every month hosts a Bandcamp Friday, but this month does, so we’re here to encourage you to go financially support your favorite recording accordionists with the biggest cut in the online music storefront business — at least, for one day a month. All of the performers in this week’s episode of Accordion Noir should […]
Page one of the piano accordion sheet music to the “Farewell Polka” This week’s episode of Accordion Noir opens with a tribute to the recently passed Zulya of Australia and continues in a casuallly autumnal vein. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy […]
The evenings grow chill again, the mornings thick with dew and fog, and a massive harvest moon loomed in the sky last night. We don’t have to tell Bruce it’s autumn, he’s already been told. He reflects upon this annual turn of the seasons in this week’s episode of our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. If […]
Last week we were presenting our mainline Vancouver accordion fest outdoors at a park, our eponymous Accordion Noir Festival (enjoy video documentation on YouTube!) kicked off lo these many years ago by Geoff Berner, and this weekend he’s at the heart of another one, the second installment of Vancouver’s Clean Air Festival! Casting the spotlight […]
A month ago I alerted your regular Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs that “Weird Al” Yankovic had just released a new polka medley to celebrate the ten-year anniversary 🗓️ of the release of his “Mandatory Fun” album, and maybe ours would be the kind of speciality radio program that might air it! Bruce doesn’t do […]
Here’s a little breather, a music-focused episode of Accordion Noir between two weeks leaning on guest interviews. Last week Bruce chatted with Emily-Rose Šárkova, and next week he’ll be talking polkas (again) with “Weird” Al! This week, though, he just played his standard mellow mix of outstanding squeezebox recordings. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]
(different interview, but the thumbnail was so applicable to our situation we couldn’t resist reusing it.) This past Sunday we learned about a traveling accordion performer who was scheduled to be performing in our town the following night and across our country in the following days and weeks. Jaron Freeman-Fox pointed her in our direction […]
(Note: despite the obvious superficial similarities in names and appearances, phonographs and gramophones are different things. One is the horned music player that plays from wax cylinders, and the other is the horned music player that plays from flat records. Like mixing up a VHS and a Betamax — very different!) Not content to rest […]
The wild thing about a festival of the age and breadth of scope of our Vancouver Folk Music Festival, is that in addition to the main draw — all the incredible international performers demonstrating their regional specialities typically not on tap locally — also if you go by the “merch table” tent, you have one […]
Greetings out there! If you were wondering what happened to this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, you’re not alone! No worries — it did end up airing on Co-Op Radio, and now it has gone up online with this very post. The focus of this week’s episode is this weekend’s return of the recently-frail Vancouver […]
Perhaps Bruce meant that the accordion music is emotionally heating up in anticipation of a key change? Hot weather in July is nothing extraordinary, but hey — here’s an AI-generated illustration to underscore the theme of accordion heat by burning real electricity to negatively impact climate change and generating genuine heat at a data centre […]
Inspiration is where you find it. Your host Bruce recently visited the dentist, and consequently last night’s episode of our weekly broadcast includes a lot of squeezy songs about mouths and the teeth in (and sometimes not in) them! After this many years of weekly episodes, it’s rare for such a starkly fresh episode theme […]
Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great zydeco hero Clifton Chenier, so it lent itself to the occasion of an hour of accordion music, such as we air every Wednesday night on CFRO Co-Op Radio! Chenier only provides zydeco bookends to a set that wanders all over the place, musically, but it definitely informed […]
It’s that time of week again to slip on your headphones and enjoy a blissful hour of sweet squeezebox music. The theme is… here we are in June, and Bruce wanted to play you some excellent squeezebox music, just like he does every week. It’s a good theme, that has gotten us through a lot! […]
Yesterday was Accordion Noir host Bruce’s birthday! But since he has the “big picture” perspective, he knows of many other important birthday and anniversaries in the accordion world also taking place at this time of year, and last night’s episode of our weekly broadcast engages all of them! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]
Because every DJ lives, to some extent, in the world, every week’s episode of Accordion Noir tells you a bit about what is going on in its host’s life that week. One thing going on is klezmer music, which is directly portable to music radio! Also in Bruce’s present zeitgeist is cycling, which … is […]
The focus for this week’s edition of the Accordion Noir radio program is Victoria’s imminent Klezcadia festival, whose free virtual registration closes tonight! Basically, if you think you might be interested, you should go register, then return to listen to our podcast. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]
A couple of weeks ago our regular host Bruce tried to seize the bull by the horns and broadcast an episode of our program from our home radio station, CFRO in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, mere blocks from his residence. He’s masterminded hundreds and hundreds of hours of broadcasts from the control board in its studios, […]
Today is Accordion Patent Day, celebrating Cyrill Demian’s successfully filing the paperwork in 1829 enshrining him as the inventor of the accordion! (And then there is Friedrich Buschmann’s 1822 claim, substantiated by more of a “vibe” than any hard evidence.) The Little Search Engine That Could (Until It Couldn’t, Not Coincidentally After Stopping Not Being […]
Last night’s new, hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates the 195th anniversary of Cyrill Demian’s patenting of the first accordion! (Truly we are alive at a great time for accordion enthusiasts, with the instrument’s bicentennial only five years away.) In honour of the occasion, we played squeezy music from […]
Our spree has been a little disrupted by what we might describe as the intrusion of real life and the outside world, but we’re back on our nonsense again: the first Friday of the month is still Bandcamp Friday, and so we still champion the opportunity it represents to get your music entertainment budget into […]
On April 21st, 1994, the Polka was proclaimed the official state dance of Wisconsin. From that departure point, your host Bruce Triggs took an exploration into the wacky world of the most hated popular and fun dance fad that’s been going strong for nearly two centuries, since the 1830s! [Bruce interjects, “Whoa Rowan, I’d say […]
After another little glitch, we’re back, with an hour-long episode celebrating the recent win of the Canadian Folk Music Award for Antigonish County’s own Mary Beth Carty, who we’ve been boosting here since the Myspace days (Squeegees!), plus more squeezy music along a similar vein. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted […]
Nothing is easy for poor Bruce, and the well-oiled operation of his getting these episodes out into the world and online is really starting to run up against rather more friction than we are accustomed to. (Maybe we shouldn’t have skimped on that bellows replacement after the first 500 thousand miles! Really it was just […]
Bruce’s technological issues we have recently reported on have only grown more acute as he attempts various remedies for his troubles, which have impacted our ability to get the program out to you, our faithful listeners, in a timely fashion. Here’s last week’s episode. If you know recent Apple hardware better than the bright bulbs […]
Something happened last night, and this week’s episode of our Accordion Noir broadcast failed to go out over the air in time to celebrate the occasion your host Bruce had planned for: the observance of the 17th anniversary (!?) of the first congregation of the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle, which has continued meeting up for the […]
Every week we share an hour (at least!) of accordion music in various styles representing different traditions from around the planet… and some of our episodes feature sub-themes that, sometimes retroactively, are surprisingly often informed by strange puns and wordplay. For this week’s program, host Bruce confides: This week’s theme is “Things with March in […]
Our Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs is experiencing some kind of computer collapse (new computer, not old — so he can’t go forward and he can’t go back) in slow motion, making every episode he painstakingly splices together on it a kind of exquisite torment. (I would reach out to our listenership for help, but […]
Bruce maintains a peculiar kind of calendar, perhaps unique in the world, featuring the birthdays of many of the most renowned accordionists of all time. (Bruce thinks you can click this link to add his Accordion Holidays to your calendar.) That way, when it’s time for us to put together an episode of our weekly […]
Anyone can celebrate Valentine’s day by putting together a program of accordion love songs. But it takes our rare galaxy brain thinking to observe the date by memorializing South Africa’s recently-deceased Tony Cedras by putting together an African diaspora squeezebox playlist. You won’t get this content anywhere else. (Present company excepted.) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]
We can’t take a bold principled stand every week… some weeks, we just play accordion music. (“Just”, as if that wasn’t enough!) This week’s theme is “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 14 songs that have four stars, from Bruce’s 26,000 track accordion library.” So please find an extra high-quality hour of our standard melange of varied squeezy musics, with a […]
Here is last night’s Very Canadian For No Particular Reason episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, including some of the greatest squeezebox music in all styles from all over the planet (or in the case of this week’s program, all over Canada.) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) […]
Many episodes of our weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir program have no theme beyond that of our sharing the greatest accordion music across all stylistic and regional boundaries. Other episodes have an additional sub-theme. This week’s episode has two! Last night’s program is not only a promo for this week’s Bandcamp Friday — a chance for […]
This week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir radio broadcast is stumbling, coughing, out of the start gates. If our mascot for this program was our friend Boston-area busker Sophie’s Smokin’ Squeezebox, we would ask her if, for this week at least, the squeezebox could be smokin’ a little less. Ash and […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment. In addition to our baseline theme of “accordion music”, there are a number of sub-themes as this episode’s title suggests — Robbie Robertson’s death, Flogging Molly’s imminent visit to town, the birthday of […]
Here we are, it’s last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, the squeezin’-est 60 minutes on the radio dial anywhere in the world! We play accordion music of every size, shape and style, modern and classic, from every corner of the globe, and if you don’t believe us… just tune […]
Bandcamp Friday is back in effect this month (indeed, on this Friday!) That is a day when one of our many music e-storefronts waives their cut of money spent there buying music — resulting in more of your music-buying money actually reaching your music-composing and music-performing and music-recording favorites. This applies to accordionists as much […]
Always a lot going on in the accordion world, including often-surprising connections to current events. Sometimes it takes us a while to reflect the news in our broadcasts, other times you get same-day service! Either way, here’s another hour of alt-accordion audio streaming at you out of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has arrived online, a heady melange of squeezy tunes your host Bruce describes as a mixture of music he bought at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival merch tent last weekend and generally upbeat songs. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast is now up online! On the face of things it doesn’t have any particular theme beyond our typical, traditional melange of squeezebox tunes representing a wide variety of musical styles from cultures all over the planet! It’s a solid default theme, […]
This week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment! Your host Bruce has improvised a suite of accordionic tunes exploring a squeezy summertime mood. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy […]
Bruce was a little confused in all the excitement recently and so I found some imagery to suit his mood. (I was feeling a little uneasy about just lifting it from the ol’ Google Image Search without crediting its original context, but then I determined in its filename that the picture was generated by the […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is online and available for your listening enjoyment! Keeping things seasonal, Bruce has put together a program of squeezebox music on summery themes, and there’s my summery summary. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability […]
Many things to celebrate this week: Pride… Bruce’s birthday… and accordion music! I know, we celebrate accordion music every week, but I don’t hear any complaints. (At least, I don’t hear them… over the accordion music!) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy […]
Here it is, this past week’s episode of Accordion Noir, slightly delayed due to a comedy of errors. The episode doesn’t have one grand overarching theme (beyond that of worthwhile squeezebox music) but rather dwells on a couple of micro-themes over the course of its playtime. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]
In this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, we look into the oeuvre of Sawtooth, the chamber music duo of vocalist Sarah Albu from Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) and Finland’s Matti Pulkki on accordion, “exploring connections between folk music, classical music and contemporary repertoire.” They are doing work at the Shadbolt […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long all-accordion radio program enjoyed a theme beyond our typical “if it has free reeds, it leads” system of musical curation. Anyone who listens to our show from their place of residence may appreciate its secondary theme of housing and its precarity. I would say we feel […]
A funereal floral arrangement is this week’s cover image in honor of Bruce’s springtime allergies. Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast is now online and available for your listening enjoyment! There doesn’t really seem to be a theme beyond “great music with accordions playing on it, some […]
From Bandcamp’s “A Guide to Arhoolie Records’ Sixty Years of Down-home Sounds“ For last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce returned our focus back to the Arhoolie Records label, singular among American folk music collectors and curators for their interest in accordionic music styles of, eg., zydeco and tejano […]
One thing’s for certain: here at Accordion Noir we have really pulled behind the “Bandcamp Friday” initiative, for that e-storefront to waive its cut of proceeds from sales the first Friday of just about every month. Tomorrow is May’s opportunity for most of your music-buying money to actually reach its intended destination, the performers and […]
We weren’t able to cook up an entire episode of fellow traveller underdog instrument content for World Nyckleharpa Day, but last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program kicks off with an acknowledgement of that august occasion, celebrated around the world. Also Harry Belafonte’s passing is marked with a great selection from his catalogue, […]
Introducing the ECO-rdéon, “the first vegan accordion on the planet! … this accordion does not contain any animal products, was assembled using eco-friendly glue without off-gasses and finished with an eco-friendly varnish.” Here it is, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, where we play accordion music in all styles from all […]
Here it is, friends, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast, where the only constant is… there’s some kind of squeezebox in every song, almost all of the time. Your host Bruce will tell you himself below that there really isn’t any theme beyond that standard criterion for […]
On many occasions now, we have celebrated and championed Bandcamp for their singular opportunity among online music e-storefronts, opening a small window on a monthly basis when musicians vending through their shop can get a halfway-decent share of the returns on their music sales. The occasion is Bandcamp Friday, the first Friday of just about […]
Greetings, accordion friends! This week our subscribers are in for a treat: they’re eligible to receive this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast an entire day early! Why is it so on top of its game this time around? I have no idea! Similarly, I cannot discern what its theme is, beyond […]
We’ve been big boosters of folk-rocker Jenny Conlee since way back here at Accordion Noir. When Bruce got word that she had a new album out — “Tides“, a pandemic project exploring Greek musical modality and the coast of the Pacific Northwest (and also some piano pieces, no less worthwhile but somewhat beyond our free-reed […]
As with last week’s episode, this week’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s Accordion Noir radio broadcast again focused on the theme of women in the accordion world. Many genres, locations and eras are represented, but again, all of the song selections nonetheless have a couple of things in common. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]
Another year, another International Women’s Day. Many years we extend our observance of it to a whole darned month, because one day isn’t anywhere near enough. (A month isn’t anywhere near enough! Six months? OK, now we’re getting somewhere.) So this week’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast out of CFRO Co-Op […]
This 2017 album not only features a hare on its album art, but… it is available on Bandcamp! How often do things align so neatly like that? It is that time again, friends: the first Friday of the month is Bandcamp Friday, when musicians can keep more of your online purchase dollar than they can […]
Here’s another new episode of CFRO Co-op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, digitized for your listening convenience! Surveying its playlist, I can’t assert with great authority that it offers any particular theme beyond our standard mix of different flavours of squeezebox music from all over the world, but shouldn’t that be enough? [Bruce: […]
Trains are once again the theme of last night’s episode of CFRO’s (about which, see below) weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, for very different reasons from the week before. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio […]
Our alt-accordion radio program’s host Bruce is once again going to be abroad on the night of our weekly broadcast, so he has pre-recorded this episode to air this Wednesday night. (You online listeners can get the drop on the ones limited to only experiencing our program over the radio.) If I am interpreting his […]
Another month, another round of Bandcamp Friday — the first Friday of the month, where the Bandcamp music e-storefront waives its cut of profits and allows participating musicians, including more than a few accordionists, to enjoy the greatest compensation rate in the industry. When these occasions come up, for working musicians to actually get paid, […]
As of this writing, the final few minutes of this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast have yet to sound out over the airwaves, yet by the wonder of the Internet the entire program is now up available online! Indeed, if you were exceedingly quick on the draw, you […]
(Image: VFMF mascot Pete Seagull playing accordion, from the album sleeve of the 3rd annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival commemorative recording, 1980, found in the old CFRO basement vinyl archives. Image re-used from our 2017 “Fests Bests” episode.) Music fans, you may have heard the bad news from our neck of the woods: the Vancouver […]
Hot off the radio presses, here’s last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, featuring the deepest cuts and dankest selections in the very small world of accordion radio. This week’s episode lacks a coherent overall theme other than to share a set of great squeezebox tunes with you, so […]
“En sommerdag”, Gerda Wegener, 1927. New year, new crop of historical recordings emerging into the Public Domain (in the United States, at least.) Know what was burgeoning in 1927? If you guessed “accordion music”, you would probably already have a good handle on this program’s format. Everything in this week’s episode is entering the Public […]
(This couple looks like perhaps they’ve personally witnessed all 193 years the accordion has been on this planet so far!) Bruce is drawing a line in the sand against tradition. As we’ve been demonstrating with our churning up our old archival posts, there was a time we’d devote December to “year in review” content, giving […]
“Winter” by Schulman We’re releasing this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast a little early this week as it is on seasonal themes and, gosh, it’s hard to get a winterier feeling than right now in these parts, temperatures sub-zero beneath a massive dump of white powder. You will find […]
Happy Solstice from Latvia! This week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast was cooked up by your humble host Bruce while on the road to visit family, so if it helps you to cast things in a more holiday mindset you can imagine him pecking away at his laptop with headphones in the […]
Bruce was feeling the weight of the years this week, as you can see from his song selections, not just because we are getting old, but — because Accordion Noir itself is getting old! This week’s episode was the 16th anniversary of its first going on the air back in December of 2006 (and I […]
Go On A Bat, Accordion Because the holiday giving season is nigh upon us (did you see the new edition of our accordion gift guide just dropped?), we are really hyping up Bandcamp Friday (this Friday) and encouraging people to purchase music from #AccordionBandcamp. That means this is another episode of our alt-squeezebox program devoted […]
Paper Foldable accordion calendar Once a month, on Bandcamp Friday — the magical first Friday of the month! — the Bandcamp e-storefront hosts a sale of sorts for the digital music sold there. The price doesn’t actually go down, but the company’s share of the revenue goes to the recording artists, so it’s a little […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has a topic beyond our usual “great squeezy tunes from all over the planet” theme — often we find ourselves revisiting comforting old past favorite songs that have previously aired, but Bruce often reflects on just how much music there is in […]
We’re living through weird times at the moment, and a resurgence of interest in the life and career of famously squeezy parodist “Weird” Al Yankovic is resulting from the recent release of his mockumentary biopic on Roku. For our parent radio station CFRO’s fall member drive, Bruce has taken the opportunity to remaster his three-episode […]
“the band had been playing for many years and was called the Rubber Bandbecause it stretched to include anyone interested in performing“ Bandcamp Friday is once again in effect, the best way to get your music-buying dollars into the pockets of your favorite recording artists! Once again this week’s episode shines the musical spotlight on […]
(From Disney’s The Haunted House, 1929.) Here we go: the local weather has caught up with the spookiest time of the year, and it’s time for us to put one of the moodiest instruments on the musical spectrum through its gruesome paces, with morbid and gloomy tunes from all over. Sounds like a good time! […]
Bruce feels the passage of the seasons acutely, and habitually imposes them on his progamming selections, that you might better feel it also! So this week’s episode of Accordion Noir is dedicated to that wacky, smoky (around Vancouver, at least) month in which we currently find ourselves. Also, it (as usual) reaches out to diverse […]
Please find attached this week’s fresh episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, where we share the greatest variety of squeezebox music from all over the planet! If I was challenged to interpret the theme of the Octoberpus I would decline… I know Bruce well enough at this point. I just […]
As the summer winds down (any minute now, right?) and we begin pointing toward the holiday season, here’s the first holiday for the music makers and music lovers in your life: Bandcamp Friday! We’ve covered the topic many times, but to reiterate: streaming music pays performers a pittance, and the Bandcamp platform — one Friday […]
What you do in September is your own business, but you’d better hurry it up if you hope to be done with it before October! Here’s our final episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program for that month, a nice mix with a focus on a couple of local performances […]
Another week, another episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, featuring some of the greatest squeezebox music ever recorded, in any style, from all over the surface of the planet Earth. I don’t perceive an obvious theme looking over the songs in this week’s episode, nothing that necessarily resonates with the […]
A year and a half ago, Bruce’s oldschool alt-accordion idol Miss Murgatroid was involved in the making of a movie, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. We devoted an episode of our weekly radio broadcast to it. Now we have learned that it is hitting wider streaming release, and Bruce concluded that the best way of […]
Since the Covid-19 pandemic spun up and musicians’ opportunities to earn their daily bread at live gigs dried up, we’ve been championing the first regular, then sporadic spree of Bandcamp Fridays offered by that digital music storefront, granting one day per month where artists can collect nearly the full revenue from their music sales, realms […]
“Heat” is the musical theme that Bruce was working with when plotting out last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast! I looked for images of the hot wax apparatus used to effect reed repairs inside the instrument, but it looks like they’re trade secrets. Rest assured the playlist is lively and diverse, […]
Hello and greetings from Squeezebox HQ! This is last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, featuring some of the newest, grooviest free reed music from anywhere (and everywhere) on the planet! I can’t look into his heart, and the context provided by the DJ-provided playlist title is lean, but […]
Big, messy evictions from the streets and sidewalks took place just outside of our parent broadcaster, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, this week. You may have heard about it. It is also Bruce’s neighbourhood, and clearly it was on his mind while programming this week’s slate of squeezy tunes for our weekly radio program. If your Apple or Android (or plain old […]
As is often the case, I don’t perceive an underlying theme to our episode broadcast last night over CFRO Co-Op Community Radio: it’s what I like to gloss over as our standard melange of music in a wide variety of styles performed on different kinds of squeezeboxes, all over the planet! That tired old cliche! […]
Frederic Deschamps from the Confédération Mondiale d’Accordéon posted this week about accordionist Galyna Oleksiv, who was killed on July 14, 2022 by a Russian missile in Ukraine. The folks at B&B Project (Ukraine’s well known Bayan and Bandura duo) posted about raising funds for her son, dreadfully injured when his mother was killed. The message below about […]
The theme of last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is a look at the squeezy offerings at this year’s Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, a longstanding tradition that has taken the last couple of years off for pandemic-related reasons. It features many acts that often feature squeezebox, but […]
There’s, er, a lot going on in the world right now. So much so, that I don’t know if it would be a reasonable expectation for Bruce to be able to reflect it in his chosen medium of “curation of free-reed music”. Consequently, from the looks of things, the lineup of songs in last night’s […]
Welcome back to Bruce, who celebrated his birthday off at the Leavenworth Accordion Festival last week and just breezed back into town realizing that he had an episode of our weekly hour-long radio program he needed to toss together to air last night! Fortunately, if Bruce rummages around in his couch cushions for loose accordion […]
Bandcamp is at it again, with one of its special fundraising Bandcamp Friday initiatives passing along the company’s cut of sale profits to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. It’s as good an excuse as any to buy accordion music from that platform, which offers vast realms of that good stuff, which also constitutes the musical […]
Given the US Supreme Court’s recent throwing Roe vs. Wade into jeopardy, Bruce has decided to celebrate his imminent birthday by taking a stand (with accordion music, as is his style), and letting the world know that we celebrate abortion rights. Accordionically. It’s a difficult theme to coax out of the material we have to […]
(Painting of Jenny Conlee by Liouxsie’s Art.) For a long time, this blog would get two posts every week: one announcing that week’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, and another one announcing, for the benefit of those who missed it the first time around, the new online availability of the […]
It is now the month of June and June is, as you can see, Accordion Awareness Month. Chances are if you were not previously aware of accordion music, you probably have not found your way to this website, but there is always room to become more aware. Help your friends get a leg-up by playing […]
Greetings, squeezy friends, and welcome to another episode of CFRO Co-op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! This week’s theme turned from news of the day to the need for change growling out of Cormac Begley’s base concertina and on from there. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]
Our home base of Vancouver, BC, has not had a dedicated home for accordion repairs and sales for many a long year, an absence acutely felt since Renzo Faoro’s “Accordion House” on Renfrew closed up shop. We are fortunate enough to have regional hubs in other major cities a few hours’ travel away — Tempo […]
Here it is, last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! I don’t know if Bruce had a theme this week beyond “here’s what’s going on in my corner of the accordion world” — this year’s Eurovision accordion number has washed up (yay, Moldova!) and Bruce just returned from presenting […]
It’s a heady time to be a supporter of accordion music or community radio in our corner of the world. Our parent radio station, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, is undertaking its annual spring member drive to fundraise for its ongoing activities — we’d like to strongly encourage you to top up your financial support, if […]
I don’t know if Bruce reflected the burgeoning Spring season in his programming this week or not, but it doesn’t matter: it’s here. As for tonight’s episode of our weekly hour-long alt-accordion broadcast on CFRO Co-Op Community Radio… well, it does partially reflect what’s going on out in the world today, notably Bruce’s principled opposition […]
By pre-recording these episodes of our weekly hour-long CFRO radio program, as he has been doing since the start of the pandemic, the Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs has been in a very different situation from that of the previous decade-and-a-half of live broadcasts: now he has the option of listening to them after they […]
Last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is now up and available for your listening enjoyment online. While some episodes have a strong narrative theme running through the programming, looking over this week’s playlist I think we have returned to our traditional wheelhouse: a solid set of songs all […]
🪗 🇺🇦🪗 Hi, Bruce from Accordion Noir here. I want to ask you to join Accordion Noir fans in raising $1,000 in humanitarian aid for Ukraine! 🇺🇦🪗 🇺🇦 Donate directly to the great organization RazomForUkraine.org (Razom means “Together” in Ukrainian). What’s an accordion worth? How about $1,000 of humanitarian aid for Ukraine! This week at […]
It’s been a turbulent March to be certain, and the fate of our little weekly hour-long accordion music radio program has been of course among the sleightest of concerns impacted by global events… but all the same, we’ve pulled ourselves together, ending March the same way we are accustomed to spending it: devoting one more […]
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is very in our wheelhouse, featuring songs in a bafflingly wide array of genres from all over the globe, with strong representation from women accordionists (for IWD!) and a slow arc toward social justice. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]
I’ll level with you: just by scanning the contents of the playlist, I have no idea what is the theme of tonight’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly alt-squeezebox broadcast Accordion Noir. I think that it may just be a journey Bruce needs to take you on, through an emotional landscape, and the only […]
For some, it’s sufficient to celebrate International Women’s Day. Our DJ Bruce likes to lean in to affirmative action, sometimes programming exclusively songs written and performed by women for the entire month of March. If this trend holds true, there’s a very good chance you’ll be hearing more out of the wonderful women of accordion […]
Whatever is going on in the world in a given week, there’s a fair chance that our crate-digger Bruce can come up with something applicable to it, as filtered through the lens of accordion music. This week, naturally, it’s spotlight on Ukraine. We always try to help out as best we can — this time […]
Something happened with this week’s hour-long, er, bear-themed episode of Accordion Noir. It failed to air at its usual broadcast time on the radio, but happily — Internet time is forever, so hopefully it will eventually go out over the radio, but if you go out in the woods today, you can enjoy listening to […]
Bruce felt that Black History Month was the perfect time for someone to connect the dots and explore the common thread of squeezebox-percussion music running all through the musical cultures of the African diaspora of the Caribbean, filling in the blanks bridging the zydeco of Louisiana and Bahamian rake-and-scrape. Then he realised that “someone”, in […]
Over our many long years on the squeezebox beat, Bruce and I have enjoyed plenty of speculation into the profounder psychological ramifications of one’s choice of squeezebox — the particular impish perversity that inspires someone to pledge allegiance to one particular obscure model of free-reed aerophone over a different, far more popular (yet still generally […]
Over the past couple of gigless pandemic years, we’ve devoted more than our fair share of episodes (see for yourself) to the subject of Bandcamp, the digital music storefront that actually gives its artists a fair cut of the pie… at least one day a month more than the other competing music streaming services. When […]
Greetings and welcome to last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, focusing on the best squeezebox music in any style from all over the planet! This week’s instalment appears to be an excellent ambassador of our genre-agnostic programming approach, yielding zydeco, klezmer, blues, jazz, rock, microtonal Persian music, punk […]
In this week’s installment of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast on CFRO 100.5 fm, Bruce is in fine form demonstrating once again the squeezebox’s stylistic and geographic breadth, as demonstrated by this episode filled with music in very different styles from all over the place — our speciality! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]
This week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio 100.5fm‘s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast has left the barn and there’s no putting it back in! Looking over the list of songs included, it appears to be another splendid specimen of our variety sampler packs, representing different regional styles of squeezebox music… the house specialty! If […]
Phew, what an exhausting year! This one also seems likely to offer many of the same challenges that 2021 did… and also, lots of accordion music to help make it all worthwhile! Here we are, sharing the first episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast of 2022, and it looks like the […]
In this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce plays our last Christmas song of the year (“the opener is the last Christmas song, so they don’t have to worry about the rest of the show being too festive”) and we shift gears right into fully agnostic winter mode. […]
From… tomorrow night, here’s an episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir show, coming at you from the future, yet to air! Like Ebenezer Scrooge, you’re being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Radio Future. (Don’t worry, Tiny Tim’s interview will go off as planned, but the news hour technician will play the […]
Bruce reflected that the selection of songs in last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long episode of the Accordion Noir show was a good fit for our plunging into the darkest time of the year: “Good tunes tonight… Kind of a gloomy feel with some uplift brightness.” What would be more appropriate […]
There have been a whole lot of scripted, plotted, and exhaustively planned episodes of Accordion Noir recently. Phew! It’s a lot of work, but sometimes, if we play our cards right, DJing can be easy — as easy as a friend playing you their favorite albums from their record collection. So here is Bruce returning […]
Tonight’s episode of Accordion Noir features artists whose music is available on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of proceeds goes directly to musicians! So jump down to the playlist below, follow the links, and share some 💸 in exchange for nice sounds. First though, Accordion Noir Radio turns 15 today! [Bruce] was going through the archives […]