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Accordion Noir
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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!
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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.
A elegant woman plays piano accordion in a long gown, with a trumpeter joining her beneath the pavilion.
August 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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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!
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.
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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!
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.
August 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Apologies to our regular listeners -- though this past week's program of our alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir radio broadcast aired at its scheduled time, its podcast version involves a stop at the Internet Archive -- which was subject to a horrible hack last week. ...
Mangled components of a piano accordion - its cardboard bellows, keyboard and buttons - have been partly set in cement and framed.
October 12, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Victor Smith once invited the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle to his living room when we found ourselves unexpectedly locked out of the Little Mountain Gallery. Today he holds down the squeezebox in the Wheat in the Barley! Maybe we should present them at next year's Accordion Noir Festival?
An electric folk quintet plays music beneath a canopy in an outdoor park plaza.
September 28, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Last night's episode of our weekly hour-long
Co-op Radio #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-squeezebox tunes is now up online as digital audio, which you can enjoy listening to via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/a...
page one of piano accordion sheet music for the song "Farewell Polka"
September 27, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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Time for us to put the #Accordion Noir puppet back into storage until our next fest, but thanks to everyone for making this comeback such a good time! Hats off to Alan Zisman at Maclean Park Music, Bruce at the info table, our incredible performers...
A man in a black T shirt bearing an image matching a book at the table (a dark haired woman wearing a red accordion) stands at an info booth in a park, behind a giant red and black paper mache piano accordion under a sign reading Accordion Noir. Someone on the other side of the booth peruse its wares.
September 9, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Greetings, #accordion friends! I know it's been a hot minute, but I'm happy to report that the #AccordionNoirFestival is back from two years' hiatus, presenting an unticketed program of awesome squeezy music in Vancouver's Maclean Park the afternoon of Sunday Sept 8...
On the left, we see a duo of a man playing accordion on stage with a woman fiddler: Jack Garton and Kathleen Nisbet. On the right, a jazzy bearded man in sunglasses grins as he plays his piano accordion outside: Taras Luka. In between, pencil art of a walking, six armed accordion playing itself. Below it, a tiny yellow button accordion with the Dirty Bellows logo. Together they are the lineup for the Accordion Noir Festival XV!
August 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via
accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/16/a...
Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen wears his buttonbox before an abstract kaleidoscopic display on the ceiling.
November 16, 2023 at 5:31 PM
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From ten years ago, here's the second part of our 2013 Co-op Radio #Halloween #accordion special, featuring the eeriest, creepiest #squeezebox music this side of some sinister circus. If you missed it the first time around, you can get an earful via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/a...
A set of rotting sinister zombie monkeys, holding paper accordion bellows between their claws, sit on a store shelf.
November 6, 2023 at 6:28 PM
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From ten years ago, here's a Devil's Night episode of our weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast on @coopradio, still running 10-11 pm Wednesday nights: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/a...
A one-panel reproduction of vallenato's founding myth, where a man plans an accordion duel with the devil -- and wins! This one is laid out like a playing card royal, with the devil and the man playing the same accordion, the man upsidedown, the devil's side on fire.
October 30, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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Last night CFRO Co-op Radio aired our third annual Halloween special of accordion drone music, featuring over three hours of slowly buzzing reeds to reward your deep listening. You can experience it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/a...
“Abstract images created from light by Vancouver photographer Meagan Carsience. This one looks sort of like a receding hallway into an infinite glowing violet future.” “Cover” for this week’s episode is by Vancouver photographer/accordionist Meagan Carsience whose intriguing photos appeared in the promo video for the first Drone Show in 2020.
October 26, 2023 at 5:06 PM
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From ten years ago, here's our CFRO Co-op Community Radio member drive special -- an "underdog instrument" fellow traveller showcase, this time celebrating: #Kazoo Noir! You can hear it via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/a...
A punk riot grrl with a big blue fauxhawk rocks out on stage with a kazoo and a lot of attitude
October 23, 2023 at 5:09 PM
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Last night's episode of @coopradio's weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is a spotlight on country & western (swing) as a barn dance celebration for our station's fall fund drive. Check it out via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...
A danged varmint escapes being strung up due to his boots unfolding, accordion-style, down to the ground.
October 19, 2023 at 4:47 PM
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From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of CFRO Co-op radio's weekly Accordion Noir broadcast with a focus on the then-recent release of Geoff Berner's novel Festival Man, including several covers of his songs by his friends & colleagues. accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/15/a...
"Festival Man" book cover, including the book's and author's names and an illustration of some kind of wolf-man.
October 16, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/a...
high-value paper currency bills flutter from where they are wedged in the top of an accordionist's bellows.
October 12, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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#introduction Hello from the #AccordionNoir show on #CFRO Co-Op #CommunityRadio in Vancouver, BC, from where we broadcast an hour of alt-#squeezebox music weekly since 2006. As well, we present a monthly #accordion circle, & many falls the world's most misunderstood instrument puts on a festival.
Punk illustration of a six-armed self-playing accordion out for a stroll in mismatched stockings and tall boots. Each of the arm's six hands is alive with the wisdom of a third eye. Art by Julie the Bruce.
October 10, 2023 at 6:37 AM
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From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of our weekly hour-long CFRO Co-op Community Radio Accordion Noir broadcast. If you missed it the first time around, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/08/a...
October 10, 2023 at 2:43 AM