Accordion Noir

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-01: First Bandcamp Friday Preview in October 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 perf…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast celebrated this month's installment of #BandcampFriday coming up tomorrow, featuring squeezy music for sale on that platform. It's up online for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-24: Way out West Where the East Begins 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 …

Here's last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of the greatest squeezy music from around the globe, enjoyable as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-17: For Those of Us on the Hoarder Spectrum 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 ha…

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a collection of squeezy tunes Bruce whipped up to mark needing to shlep his possessions around to accommodate construction, is now online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/a...

Last night's episode of #CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, in promotion of this Sunday's #CleanAirFestival, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday 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 a…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up, celebrating Jo Ann Castle's birthday & tomorrow's #BandcampFriday, for shoppers who want the most bang for their online music purchase buck. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-27: Co-op Radio 50/50 Raffle! 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!) wit…

This past week's episode of CFRO's regular alt-accordion #AccordionNoir program, this time an invitation for British Columbia residents to enter its 50/50 draw fundraiser, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

A elegant woman plays piano accordion in a long gown, with a trumpeter joining her beneath the pavilion.

Lucy Lambert brought "Trumpet of Doom" as backup to this year's #accordionnoirfest! We're always glad to spread the doom around a little among other instruments.

On a hot summer's day, a man with a little black piano accordion plugged into a beefy sound board rocks out beneath a tent pavilion in a public park.

Geoff Berner is the reason we started the #AccordionNoirFestival so it's very fitting to have him out here at our sixteenth installment. In this picture he's rocking #PaulSimon's Bridge Over Troubled Water... in Yiddish!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-20: Accordion Noir Fest (Sunday Aug 24) Preview 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 &#8212…

To get a taste of its featured performers (Geoff Berner, Lucy Lambert & @nicheinterests.bsky.social) all you have to do is listen to the show via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-20: Accordion Noir Fest (Sunday Aug 24) Preview 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 &#8212…

The final item in our catch-up spree, this past week's episode of #AccordionNoir promotes the Accordion Noir Festival we're presenting in Strathcona's Maclean Park this Sunday afternoon, from 2-5 pm.

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-13: Marie Lachenal’s 177th Birthday & etc. 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 …

We got caught in a bit of a virtual logjam, so here's another new episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast from a week and a half ago: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-06: August, Oh August Bring Us Your Best 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 — bu…

From the start of this month, here's our delayed tribute to the late, great #FlacoJimenez, an hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

ACCORDION NOIR FESTIVAL XVI – Sunday, August 24th (At least) one more time, courtesy of our friends at Maclean Park Music, we are looking forward to sharing three more sets of solo squeezebox music with you, by donation, in a sunny, well-vent…

details at accordionnoirfest.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/a...

Before a giant translucent set of dark bellows, two men (one bald, one in a top hat) and a skeptical looking woman (also suitably hatted) don piano accordions and squeeze their hearts out.

One week from today, we present the sixteenth installment of the ACCORDION NOIR FESTIVAL, bringing alt-squeezebox to the masses. Aug 24, 2-5 pm, by donation at Vancouver's Maclean Park, hear Geoff Berner, Lucy Lambert and @nicheinterests.bsky.social rocking their boxes!

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-23: New Moon as the Patents Fly There were speed bumps over at our host, delaying our sharing of last week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio for an entire week… but the good news is that here it is, it arrived, better…

Apologies for the delay, but here's last week's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast, featuring sixty minutes of the free-reediest music playlist you'll find anywhere in the world. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/a...

Accordion Noir 2025-07-16: What Do You Call a Folk Fest with No Squeezebox? Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast was intended to showcase and highlight squeezy music at the upcoming Vancouver Folk Music Festival, but Bruce c…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a thwarted Folk Festival squeezebox survey, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-09: July to Beat the Band The world is feeling heavy this week, and here we are, holding up a funhouse mirror to it that only returns accordion tunes. It’s a strange beat, but after nearly twenty years, we can’t…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as streaming digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-02: Playing both ends against the middle The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is a curious exploration of two extremes, energy-wise, starting with 40 minutes of upbeat dance music and ending with a …

The latest hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a... and ready for your listening enjoyment!

Accordion Noir 2025-06-25: Clifton Chenier’s 100th Birthday Bruce played it pretty straight last night in programming the centenary celebration of zydeco popularizer Clifton Chenier. It’s not 100% Clifton but it’s pretty close! If your Apple or …

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of #zydeco star #CliftonChenier. If you don't subscribe to our podcast, it's up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-06-18: International Panic Juggling Day (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 desig…

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO 's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music, celebrating two seasonal themes of panic and juggling, is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...

Accordion Noir 2025-06-11: It’s Cleveland Chenier’s 104th Birthday, and I’m 57 Tomorrow 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 week…

Tonight's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast, a mix of birthday celebrations, memorials, and bellowing observance of resistance in LA, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/a...

Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio will praise the protesters with occasional #accordion in #LosAngeles 🪗 🪧

#Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday the day before mine

And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-28: Guy Klucevsek Farewell Lived 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 mus…

A special double-length online exclusive version of last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a memorial to the late #GuyKlucevsek, is now online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-28: Canadian as I Wanna Be 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 …

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of working Canadian box-squeezers, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-21: Rob Reich and I’m Sick and Don’t Know What to Call the Show Tonight 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 t…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir radio broadcast, a memorial to Rob Reich of Tin Hat (et al), is up onlineand available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/a...

Accordion Noir 2025-05-14: Mid-May in the Garden of Accordion 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…

The latest hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir program, Mid-May in the Garden of Accordion, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-07: May the Seventh Be With You 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 stan…

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/a...

Accordion Noir 2025-04-30: Women’s #AccordionBandcamp Friday Preview This week’s episode of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast shone the spotlight on women accordionists selling music on the Bandcamp platform — as today is Bandcamp Friday, t…

This week's episode of #AccordionNoir radio was a guide to buying tunes by women accordion players in this month's #BandcampFriday sale -- currently underway! You can enjoy listening to it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-23: Get Lucy Lambert’s Record if You Listen to This Show 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 progra…

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-16: Vancouver Co-op Radio – 50 Years and One Day Old and Still Squeezin’ 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 …

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-accordion music -- a playlist of tunes from CFRO's founding year of 1975 -- is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/a...