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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…

Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio

It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 — 4 hrs left!)

Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today 💰🪗

Beast, Please Be Still, by Beast, Please Be Still 7 track album

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Here’s my old band “Beast, Please Be Still” where I met my wife (she played accordion). It’s post-rock but with violin, flute, electronic wind instrument, and cellphone feedback? Very 2007.

Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...

#bandcampfriday

Al, wearing an accordion, poses backstage with Flo & Eddie, who are blowing party horns.

RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.

There could be books on every member of that Figgy Duff

Not sure they’d all want anything to do with that though! 😅

Trying to get out my vision of “what was happening with the accordion”, can obscure the labour and lives of the artists who were there when the accordions weren’t playing, or who did the work to make the scene happen, or were — frankly — more important than the accordion player sometimes

Great article! Thank you!
Figgy Duff were really interesting to read and write about in my #AccordionRevolution book. I’m pretty sure I didn’t do them justice in my urge to tell my story of folk music accordion trends

Like most Canadian bands they haven’t gotten enough attention

Today (Aug 15) in #NLMusicHistory...

In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.

@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion

Separated from our place in Gastown by a few hundred meters because everywhere East of the Sea Bus remains dedicated to industrial use / which left #DTES residents to fight for Crab Park 🦀 and it being Bob Mosesed–off from the rest of the Sea Wall all these years
#Vancouver
#Bikeyvr

Trump's ending de minimis exemption (which would add 35% tax to shipments from Canada less than $800)

Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1

So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so

Unusual pin connector for some kind of electronic audio output on the outside of a diatonic melodeon/accordion.

Back of a black accordion with two 2/4 inch jack audio output plugs. It is a Hohner Overture V model.

Same Accordion with the front grill taken off so you can see the wiring pour the peculiar electronic plug wired up to individual sensors for each key, I think.

Jack on the front of the Accordion, which looks to me to be perhaps a 12 V power input?

Big thread over on #accodion #Mastodon (such as it is) about an electronic melodeon, somebody found

I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk

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gulf accordion

LANKUM - 'False Lankum' Now Available from Rough Trade Official website of Rough Trade Recording artists, Lankum. 'False Lankum' is now available Worldwide. Lankum Tour Dates, Lankum Merch, and more.

Hey #Vancouver!

@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!

I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket

lankumdublin.com

#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes

Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?

LIDER MIT PALESTINE לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love, by lider mit palestine 17 track album

out today - including the work of many good friends of mine. an album of new Yiddish music to benefit Abu Amsha's Gaza Birds Singing, a musical, educational, and therapeutic project in Gaza.

Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?

AccNoir–2025-07-30, Bandcamp August Friday in July (Cover image above: Just heard the great Flaco Jimenez has died. More from him next week. For now a few of his records from Smithsonian/Folkways are available on Bandcamp. And today is Bandcamp Fri…

This week's #bandcampfriday episode of Accordion Noir Festival radio is available for listening

With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars

So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸

Page 210 from my Accordion Revolution: “An Ursuline convent school may have purchased the very first accordion in Canada in 1843. We know this because the nuns kept the receipts, and several of these delicate instruments survive in the convent museum. The Ursulines also had various accordions repaired in Quebec City at the head of the St. Lawrence River, source for European imports in Canada. These French-style instruments would have featured in bourgeois and upper-class parlors in Quebec, but were out of reach of most people. In the later 1800s, more affordable German-style accordions and Anglo-German concertinas became available through the Eaton and Montgomery Ward catalogs. Then, in 1895, Odilon Gagné began producing the first Canadian-built German-style ten-button accordions in Quebec. He crafted every part himself, from the reeds to the bellows and buttons. His sons carried on the business and passed on the skills to [his sons].

First appearance of an accordion in Canadian history is at an Ursuline convent in Quebec City. We know because they kept the receipt in 1843
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#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution

Copy of my Accordion Revolution book with many stickers and buttons from my Etsy shop, spread out before packing to mail.

A set of seven round white button badges with accordion register symbols of lines and dots that look a bit like cartoon stick figure ninja faces.

A bunch of packages ready to mail, all with red flamingo accordions stamped in them.

Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com

#Accordion #buttons #stickers

My mistake. I may have been forwarding posts from Australia or somewhere?

Oh I guess it’s today

Well there you go

I guess #WorldEmojiDay is the winning hashtag #️⃣

@emojipedia.org runs it

The day before #EmojiDay we can’t let the Flute Emoji go unappreciated 🪈

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar

Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection 🪗
www.rosss.com/auction/the-...
#FolkMusic

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…

That’s demoralizing. We steal our weekly podcast images

Last week may have been the first overtly AI one

I’m not a fan of the aesthetics. But ethically, stealing seems similar, though it feeds the machine less 🤔
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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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Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
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“Especially when accompanied by an accordion.” 👨🏻‍🍳💋

Ah word from Laurent is his book has sold out!

So look for it used if you can find it 🪗 📚
#accordion

Trésors de lames Accordéons et bandonéons by Laurent Jarry

Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons

French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring

Order a copy of his beautiful book!

Treasury of Reeds is a coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos across 350 pages 📚
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr/livre-art-tr...
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