Acheulean Age - Episode May 23, 2026

ALL CANADIAN SPECIAL opening with a moving, loving, honest tribute to the accordion, on the 197th anniversary of the day (May 23, 1829) the patent was first given to Cyrill Demian by Viennese officials who most certainly had no idea just how integral that weird boxy thing would become to expressing Canadian hyphenate identities through song and stories.Playlist: Cameron Nickerson - Little Country HomeKelly Cliperton - Meet Me At The RailwayHowells - The Pressure (Acoustic)Cryptozoologists - Someone Egged My CarGene Kucherawy - Gene's PolkaHarry Hibbs, featuring Johnny Burke and the Caribou Showband - Brennan On The MoorEmilia Volodymyrivna Ostapchuk (Andrusiw), featuring Michael Minsky, Herman Kropatschek, the Viennese Symphony Orchestra - White Cottage In The OrchardRon - Polka Medley: Arbourg Polka, Accordion Polka, Southern PolkaFemale Beat - Walking the MeadowsAndy De Jarlis and His Early Settlers - Wayne's Old Time WaltzGaby Haas And His Barndance Gang - Barbary PolkaWilf Carter - Memories Of My Little Grey-Haired Mother In The WestKing Biscuit Boy, featuring Crowbar - Highway 61Tegan and Sara - Hang On To The NightHerbie Hancock , featuring Leonard Cohen, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lionel Loueke - The Jungle LineQuit Music - sometimes i don'tRolf Boon, featuring The University of Lethbridge Contemporary Music Ensemble - Waves For Two Synthesisers, Percussion, Guitar, and SaxophoneCanadian Brass, featuring William McCauley - StaggeringStatus/Non-Status - Basket WeavingJim Balfour and Friends, featuring Don Griffith (piano) - Still VerticalWhitehorse - Manitoba Death StarDiamondtown - Faded LinesLoreena McKennitt - The Bonny Swans (Live)Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Marsha Epic Harris - The Children's GardenThe Joel Plaskett Emergency - True Patriot LoveNova Scotiables - Down Donegal's Stairs