Accordion Noir Radio

Northern Ireland is still in the news for the wrong reasons, and the troubles going on there apparently motivate Bruce to defiantly put a lot African accordion music into this week’s radio playlist. (Your move, Ulster.) He suggests some sub-themes going on in this week’s song selection and the commentary between songs include Régis Gizavo’s […]

Happy birthday to Bruce! He takes this opportunity to play whatever music he likes on his radio program, which of course he does every week anyway. This time around, the song selection is also informed by his takes on current world events, which again is somewhat of a regular occurrence. But the point is… enjoy […]

This week, Bruce got out of his apartment and into the CFRO studios two blocks away, where he hadn’t broadcast an episode of Accordion Noir live since the Covid-19 pandemic. Many things have changed, but the music is still all very squeezy! Broadcasting live is a more spontaneous experience, and we think you’ll be able […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently passed. 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 listening to it as […]

This week your host Bruce had a little trouble with his heart, so of course he made it the theme for this week’s radio program. (Of all his organs that could have been cause for concern, just be glad it wasn’t one of the other ones he had to find an hour of appropriate songs […]

Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great Ritchie Valens, and Bruce took the opportunity to take us on a whirlwind audio tour of squeezy Latin music (which, of course, we could devote an entire hour to every week and barely scratch the surface!)  If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted […]

Because we are three years away from the bicentennial of Cyrill Demian’s patenting of the accordion, for this episode, observing this year’s “Accordion Day” (when you’re like us, every day is accordion day), Bruce has lined up a set of squeezy songs involving the number three. (Because there are simply quite a bit fewer songs […]

Bandcamp Friday is upon us once again, and we like to take the opportunity to dip into Bandcamp’s catalogue of musical offerings and make curated recommendation of squeezy working musicians you might take this opportunity to purchase music from! All that, plus Bruce hypes up Quebec’s amazing, accordionic le Vent du Nord, playing in town […]

As we approach our parent radio station’s 52nd birthday, Bruce set his mind to wandering and contemplated what our program might have sounded like had it begun airing in that august year of 1974. (Definitely no “Weird Al”!) Come with us as he explores this historical thought experiment! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]

Thirteen years ago, Bruce workshopped a portion of his Accordion Revolution book here on the blog, a brief chapter about the squeezy cliche that is the Beer Barrel Polka. But apparently he did not get it out of his system, as this massive accordion hit through the ages is still rattling around in his noggin […]

This late in the day you’ve already weathered the worst of it, but today was April Fool’s Day and in honour of the occasion Bruce has queued up a set of silly, funny accordion music for this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio. (Unrepresented in this recording, but co-host Rowan is also on track to […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music touches on many currents of free-reed bellows music but all with the late squeezy innovator Guy Klucevsek on our mind, whose birthday is today. 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 […]

All right, enough resting on our laurels. Last week we celebrated the 1000th episode of our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. This week: it’s the first episode of our second thousand. Back to work! 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 listening to […]

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, meaning that this week we celebrated our thousandth episode! (Later this year we’ll be observing its 20th anniversary.) We celebrated by […]