#AccordionNoir
Who could have ever anticipated its longevity? Last night #AccordionNoir dropped its 1000th episode, a nostalgic get-together with Bruce, Rowan & Geoff Berner looking back at all the good times . You can enjoy listening to it via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-02-04: Accordion Noir’s 1,000th Episode, with Geoff Berner
Seems like our 500th episode extravaganza with Geoff Berner and Dawn Zoe was just yesterday, but somehow this week was a thousand weeks since our first broadcast back at the start of December 2006,…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Last night's squeezy episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-28: January Closeout Sale
Last night’s episode of Accordion Noir observes the end of the month and … our final appearance measurable in only three digits. You can’t really hear any of that in the playlist …
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January 30, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Here's last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, celebrating the culture, traditions and (ahem) self-determination of Greenland: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-21: Greenland for Greenlanders
With all the talk about Greenland in the news recently, Bruce was inspired to devote an episode to the topic of that big cold island. (He didn’t get very far on short notice, but it’s w…
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January 22, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of several important accordionic January birthdays, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-14: Johnny Grande Day, New Music & More Birthdays
There are some dates and weeks that are loaded with birthdays and anniversaries for people and events that loom large in accordion history, and this week is one of them, which lends itself neatly t…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a meditation on solidarity and unity in divisive times, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-07: Immigrant’s Rights and Wrongs
I can’t put it better than Bruce did in his words below, so I’ll leave it to him to elaborate on last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, on themes of…
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January 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Last night's episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a showcase of works and recordings entering the public domain in 2026, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-31: Public Domain Day Requires a Law Degree
With every year that passes, more and more of our cultural heritage passes from private ownership into the public realm, where anyone can use or enjoy it without being required to pay fees — …
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January 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Season's greetings! Last night's hour-long #ChristmasEve episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your seasonal listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-24: Some Reindeer are Knocking on Our Chimney
If you’re going to be playing an hour of music on Christmas Eve, you need to either be explicitly embracing or rejecting the occasion. In this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, Bruce ki…
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December 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a winter holiday showcase with a focus this week on Chanukah, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-17: A few Chanukah tunes and others in the times of stormy weather
We’re getting into winter holiday season, and first up is Chanukah, a primary focus in this week’s episode of our weekly hour-long all-accordion broadcast. If your Apple or YouTube or i…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a spotlight on squeezy tunes available for sale at this Friday's #BandcampFriday, is up online and ready for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-03: Last Bandcamp Friday Before New Years
One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week, your chance to purchase accordion music from acco…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir alt-squeezebox broadcast, this one with a theme difficult to succinctly describe on social media, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-26: Whatever We Play Tonight
Bruce is getting a little postmodern with these programs: he has taken an episode of our program first aired a bit over eighteen years ago, located all of the songs included in it in his music coll…
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November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Last week's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is (finally) up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-19: Tommy Dorsey’s Birthday
If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listeni…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 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...
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
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--...) ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 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...
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 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
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After all my big promo I realized I had the wrong audio file attached in the podcast so if you went to listen to our spectacular #drone #accordion special, you would’ve got a previous episode

Fixed now so do please offer it to your ears:
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 6:40 PM
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 #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
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