Accordion Noir Radio

It might be a little obvious, cliched if you will, for us to promote this weekend’s planned installment of our Accordion Noir Festival as the theme for this week’s episode of the Accordion Noir radio show. (Just as well: you can’t tell it to look out the window in the hot blue sky today, but […]

They’re not appearing entirely, uh, sequentially, but here it is, the last of our run of missing recent episodes of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcasts. This one dates to the very end of this past July just a couple of weeks ago, so if you’re not fully on top of things you may […]

Greetings, everyone! Bruce has recently transitioned back to DJing episodes of our weekly alt-squeezebox radio broadcast live from the CFRO studios after many years of bedroom prerecords prompted by Covid-19 closures. This transition has been accompanied by hiccups in actually getting our hands on a digital copy of what just went out over the air, […]

Man makes plans and the radio gods refuse to relinquish the hour of recorded audio from the logger. Bruce initially hoped for this episode of Accordion Noir to be a just-in-time accordion music buyer’s guide for the then-upcoming Bandcamp Friday on August 7th. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get our hands on the recording until today, August […]

There’s a lot going on in this week’s episode of Accordion Noir — Bruce is back live on the air and apparently free-associating currents of themes as he navigates his way through his music collection. Is this episode about the current spate of warm weather, the recent folk music festival, or the discovery that the […]

The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast shines the spotlight on accordionic performances coming up at this year’s installment of the long-running Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which we have previewed many times over the past couple of decades. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]

Inspiration comes from curious observations, and this week Bruce had one of the more curious, perceiving a numerical sequence in the date.  Consequently all of the musical selections also involve numbers and numerals… something to dwell on while you contemplate the 120 buttons on the Stradella side of your piano accordion! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old […]

This year, for Canada Day, Bruce presented a slate of accordion tunes made by Canadian accordionists, past and present. Simple and direct! 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 digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you […]

Greetings and welcome to another episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! Bruce is in a summery mood (a mid one?) so that has informed this week’s selection of squeezy songs for your listening enjoyment.  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, […]

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. He suggests some sub-themes going on in this week’s song selection and the commentary between songs include Régis Gizavo’s birthday and Iona […]

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 […]