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Accordion Noir Radio

English, Music, 1 season, 61 episodes
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Accordion punk-rock and classical-folk stuff from around the world, with jazz and occasional token polkas. Broadcast live on CFRO Co-Op Radio from the heart of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Earth. We welcome concertina, bandoneon, squeezebox, squashbox, button-box, bayan, melodeon, trikitixa (Basque buttonbox), and flutina (primitive accordion). We play norteño, zydeco, forro, tango, klezmer, and little kids messing with toy accordions. We like vallenato from Colombia, muzette from France, punk rock from Russia, and anything from Finland or Belgium. It's eclectic, showing the sometimes dark, unfamiliar depths of the various squeezebox traditions, while having a good time.
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-08: Maybe We’ll Just be Moving On

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 […]
5/9/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-01: May Day Bandcamp-Out

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 […]
5/2/20240
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Accordion Noir 2024-04-24: Fifty Years Of Co-op Radio & 30 Years of Wisconsin Polka!

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 [Bruce interjects, “Hey Rowan, I’d rather say ‘Misunderstood or forgotten.’ I don’t think too many smart people really hate polka do they?”] […]
4/25/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-17: Mary Beth Carty award show & Co-op Radio Fund Drive

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 […]
4/19/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-03: April And Another Thing

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 […]
4/5/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-27: Back From Beyond (If This Works)

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 […]
4/5/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-13: 17th Anniversary of the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle

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 […]
3/14/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-06: Next Time in March

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 […]
3/8/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-28: It was Guy Klucevsek’s Birthday Monday, so we played a bunch of random tunes

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 […]
3/3/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-21: Birthday Festivities with Pee Wee King, Steve Jordan and a Sharp Set

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 […]
2/25/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-14: Tony Cedras and African Diaspora Accordion

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 diaposra squeezebox playlist. You won’t get this content anywhere else. (Present company excepted.) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]
2/17/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-07: Four Stars in February

We can’t take a bold principled stand every week… some weeks, we just play accordion music. (“Just”, as if that wasn’t enough!) So please find another hour of our standard melange of varied squeezy musics, plus a podcast bonus for you online listeners. Speaking of which: if your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to […]
2/9/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-01-31: Imperfect Episode in Solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

Ordinarily this would be our monthly Bandcamp special, but something has come up that is even bigger than that. Please read on for Bruce’s statement on Palestine solidarity. 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 listen to it as digital audio courtesy of the […]
2/2/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-01-24: Another Squeeze Around the World (1913-2024)

This week’s episode of Accordion Noir is out, featuring our trademark melange of free reed musics from different musical traditions representing far-flung and disparate cultures across the planet! It’s an excellent recipe and we see no reason to deviate from it. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, […]
1/25/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-01-10: New Ears in the New Year

Here you go, a fresh playlist of hugely stylistically varied squeezebox music, from all over the place and across a wide range of time periods! That’s right, it’s your regular Accordion Noir playlist. 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 […]
1/11/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-01-03: Public Domain Day 1928–2024!

Happy New Year! Last night’s episode of our weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast took a look at some of the latest accordion music to enter the Public Domain in the United States, hot squeezebox tunes from nearly a hundred years ago — which was a good era for accordions! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]
1/4/20240
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-27: Brief Respite in Midwinter

Sometimes you run out of accordion playlists before you run out of weeks in the year. In a pinch during holiday activities Bruce had to quickly produce some tunes for last night’s episode of our weekly program, so he reached into his “long, contemplative improvised works” file that has served him so well in his “drone” […]
12/28/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-20: Solstice Solstice Everywhere (on Earth)

In all the holiday excitement, Bruce failed to notice that he hadn’t sent me the playlist for this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, and I had failed to notice that I hadn’t posted the epiode yet!  But no worries, we caught it in the nick of time. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]
12/22/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-13: December the 13th!

It’s December! There are many occasions to celebrate at this time of year (and the always-festive lucky number 13), but for purposes of last night’s episode of our weekly alt-accordion radio broadcast, we jumped on a few recent birthday observances in the accordion world. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to […]
12/14/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-12-06: The Death of Shane MacGowan, and we’ve got 19 days until the New Ukrainian Christmas

We’re inexorably inching our way toward the winter holiday season, one best characterised not only by what it offers but also what it takes away, so this week’s broadcast of Accordion Noir radio also observes the death of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]
12/7/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-11-29: Last Bandcamp Friday of the Year

This week’s hour-long episode of our weekly Accordion Noir broadcast doesn’t just look ahead to this Friday’s “Bandcamp Friday” sale (you pay the same, but a higher proportion of the purchase price makes its way to the artist), it also marks the occasion of the 17th anniversary of our first time on the air! Seventeen […]
11/30/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-11-22: Sailing on that Lonesome Seasoning

Bruce is by himself in his apartment as the season turns, preparing to make a new run of accordion-themed buttons for his Etsy shop for squeezy fans to send (and receive) as gifts in a bit over a month from now. These circumstances undoubtedly played into his curatorial decisions when determing the specific programming content […]
11/23/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-11-15: Back in Accordion Action

October’s “Rise of the Long Tones” special borrowed a couple of hours from adjacent programs on our station schedule, so for the past couple of weeks we’ve been paying those hours back by allowing our neighbour shows to use our hour for their own extended CFRO member drive special purposes. Consequently, you haven’t heard much […]
11/16/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-10-25: Drone Show III 𝄐 the Rise of the Long Tones

For the third year in a row, we have celebrated Hallowe’en by devoting our weekly alt-accordion radio program to the theme of droning, with hypnotic long-form compositions in the vein of Pauline Oliveros’ “Deep Listening” compositions. Longer tracks demand a longer airtime, so here we are offering up three and a quarter hours (!) of […]
10/26/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-10-11 radio playlist: Not Quite Fund Drivin’

Like clockwork, here’s another new episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, first aired just under 12 hours ago last night. Every week we share some of the greatest squeezebox music in any style representing traditions from all around the planet, and last night was no exception! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]
10/12/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-10-04: Bandcamp Fridays Keep the Union Strong

In anticipation of the first Friday of every month, we’ve gotten into the habit of promoting regular “Bandcamp Friday” sales, granting recording artists nigh unprecedented cuts of online music sales for one day a month. Bandcamp was just sold by Epic Games to Songtradr, and … we have concerns that the center cannot hold. But […]
10/5/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-09-27: Making it Up as We Limp Along

Bruce is still sick, but the show must go on! Fortunately, through the medium of radio he can avoid exposing you to any risk worse than infectious tunes. This week’s episode of our program was kind of spontaneously whipped up at the last minute, but the benefit of having a substantial accordion music collection is […]
9/28/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-09-20: Hey, Don’t Get Covid

The world finally caught up with us! Despite being borderline paranoid in our precautions, Rowan finally caught whatever Covid-19 had since evolved into back in February, and your hermit-like host Bruce somehow picked it up this past week. It’s not a walk in the park, so even though our broadcast went out over the airwaves […]
9/24/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-09-13: September is a Rollin’ In

Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is up online and ready for your listening enjoyment, offering our trademark survey of all the different ways free-reed aerophones are used in different styles of music from all over the planet! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted […]
9/14/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-09-06: Canadiana-dana-doo!

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!) […]
9/7/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-08-30: August Matrons — a Bandcamp Friday Women’s Music Preview

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 […]
8/31/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-08-23: Breathbox in the Smoke

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 […]
8/23/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-08-16: Clean Air Festival, Flogging Molly, Robbie Robertson, and Kimmo Pohjonen’s birthday

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 […]
8/17/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-08-09: Is August Well Upon You?

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 […]
8/11/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-08-02: August’s BandcampFriday Preview Wednesday

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 […]
8/3/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-07-26: Sinéad O’Connor, Jason Webley’s Circus Down the Mississippi, & Geoff Berner’s new Covid record

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) […]
7/27/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-07-19: Summertime and the Breathing is Squeezy

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 […]
7/20/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-07-12: Me Mother Won’t Let Me Marry (a song Minnie White recorded when she was 78)

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, […]
7/13/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-07-05: A Few Days After Canada Day Day

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 […]
7/6/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-06-28: The Last Show in June (Not the first show in July like Bruce thought it was)

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 […]
6/30/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-06-21: Summer Solstice in Juneuary

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 […]
6/22/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-06-14: Squeezebox Pride on the Feast of St. Benildus

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 […]
6/16/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-06-07: June it is a Smokin’ with Alice Hall and Sharon Shannon’s Birth Days

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 […]
6/11/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-05-31: Sawtooth Duo in Residence!

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 […]
6/1/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-05-24: Housing is Feeling the Squeeze

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 […]
5/25/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-05-17: May Your Squeezes Be More Than Your Sneezes

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 […]
5/18/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-05-10: Chris Strachwitz, Accordion Man

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 […]
5/11/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-05-03: Bandcamp Out / In May

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 […]
5/4/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-04-26: Fund Drive on Through April

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, […]
4/27/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-04-19: Spring Fund Drive on the Only Earth We’ve Got

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 […]
4/20/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-04-12: April Showering of Squeezeboxes

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 […]
4/13/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-04-05: Bandcamp Friday is Coming and they’re forming a Union!

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 […]
4/5/20230
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Accordion Noir 2023-03-29: Farewell Squeeze from March

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 […]
3/29/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-03-22: “Tides” Jenny Conlee Record Releasin’

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 […]
3/23/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-03-15: More Women’s Month of Music

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) […]
3/17/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-03-08: International Women’s Night to Give a Damn

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 […]
3/9/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-03-01: March Hare-Brained BandcampFriday Preview

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 […]
3/3/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-02-22: Accordion Noir’s Canadian Dating Service

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: […]
2/23/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-02-15: Rail Solidarity

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 […]
2/16/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-02-08: February in Training for February?

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 […]
2/7/20230
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-02-01: February Has Your Back to Bandcamp Friday

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, […]
2/2/20230