Accordion Noir
@accordionnoir.bsky.social
Since 2006, we've been sharing an hour of alt-#Accordion music weekly over the airwaves, courtesy of CFRO Co-Op Radio in #Vancouver's DTES. Along the way we kicked off a monthly accordion club, an annual festival, & a free reed aerophone history book!
Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of squeezy music on #RemembranceDay themes is up online and available your your listening convenience: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-12: November Remembers
War: what is it good for? If I told you “great accordion music”, you wouldn’t believe me, but now you don’t have to. Either way, I’d happily do away with accordion in …
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November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of squeezy music on #RemembranceDay themes is up online and available your your listening convenience: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/a...
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Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.
We buried a lede in the latest repost of our weekly #AccordionNoir radio broadcast, but since we figured out that Google Podcasts rode into the sunset about 5 months ago, our program has now been made available on YouTube (via www.youtube.com/channel/UC--...) ...
Accordion Noir
Championing the dark, moody side of the humble squeezebox that Anglo North America forgot about -- or never knew in the first place, earning its place in every genre of music, performed everywhere on ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We buried a lede in the latest repost of our weekly #AccordionNoir radio broadcast, but since we figured out that Google Podcasts rode into the sunset about 5 months ago, our program has now been made available on YouTube (via www.youtube.com/channel/UC--...) ...
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of songs whose names begin with the word "Big", is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-05: Alphabetical Playlist for Co-op Radio’s Fall Membership Drive Starting With “Big”
Bruce has… a lot of accordion music. He has so much of it that if he so cared to, he could just cruise by the “B” section of his alphabetised song library, and come up with an ent…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of songs whose names begin with the word "Big", is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/a...
Last night's super-long (3 hour!) episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir program, the latest in our annual spree of drone-themed Hallowe'en broadcasts, is up online and available for your leisurely listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-29: Squeeze into the Long Nights (Drone Accordion V)
Long time coming gathering works for another episode of drone, experimental and noisy squeezebox to stretch your listening ears! This is a fine set of tones indeed as we did four years in the past …
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October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last night's super-long (3 hour!) episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir program, the latest in our annual spree of drone-themed Hallowe'en broadcasts, is up online and available for your leisurely listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/a...
And here's the fresh new episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, featuring spooky squeezy tunes and an interview with Dr. Carmel Raz! accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-22: Dr. Carmel Raz Seances, Sperrits, and Ghostly Accordions Halloween 2025 Remix
NOTICE about next week’s special 3 hour episode:Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionSPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Should just roll …
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October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
And here's the fresh new episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, featuring spooky squeezy tunes and an interview with Dr. Carmel Raz! accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/a...
Apologies for the late promotion, but here's last week's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, celebrating my family vacation to Italy with a lot of Italian and romantic squeezebox music: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-15: Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance
Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly I…
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October 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Apologies for the late promotion, but here's last week's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, celebrating my family vacation to Italy with a lot of Italian and romantic squeezebox music: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/a...
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This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
AccNoir–2025-10-15, Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance
Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly I…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a good mix of varied squeezebox tunes from different styles and different parts of the world, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-08: October 8 1/2
(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 “varie…
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October 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a good mix of varied squeezebox tunes from different styles and different parts of the world, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...
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 2025-10-01: 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…
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October 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
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 2025-09-24: 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 …
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September 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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...
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...
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…
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September 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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 2025-09-10: Clean Air Festival Weekend Weather
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, feat…
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September 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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...
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 2025-09-03: 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…
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September 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
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...
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…
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August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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...
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.
August 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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.
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!
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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!
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 2025-08-20: 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 —…
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August 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
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 2025-08-13: 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 …
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August 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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...
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 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…
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August 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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...
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!
August 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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!
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 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…
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August 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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...
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 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…
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July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
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 2025-07-09: 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…
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July 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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...
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 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 …
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July 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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!