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 there’s a very good chance it’s going to be postponed for rain!) In any case, never let it be said that we only pick the low-hanging fruit! Instead, Bruce has been moved by a social media exchange to theme the latest episode of our program after the rootsy musical sphere inhabited by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. 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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-08-19, Nitty Gritty Titaníque

An episode inspired by a mastodon user named Titanique and Bruce discovering that The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had as many as three (or four) accordionists — though they don’t seem to have performed at once. Too bad, that would have been quite a Lynyrd Skynyrd Squeezebox scene there

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Ongoing: Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio – ‟NCRA2603 – CRI PSA 3” – If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country (2026) – You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode! – https://www.cri-irc.ca/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments
* Grupo Cali – ‟Titanic (mi alma seguirá)” – Single (1998) – Santa Fe, Argentina – Darío Zanco, acc. – https://www.cumbiabase.com.ar/grupo-cali
* The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Bruce Hornsby – ‟The Valley Road” – Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Vol. II (1989) – Long Beach, California, USA (Plus Guests) – Bob Carpenter, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band – https://www.nittygritty.com
* The Tolka Hot Club – ‟Viper Mad” – Tolka Hot Club (2025) – Dublin, Ireland – www.thetolkahotclub.com – thetolkahotclub.bandcamp.com
* Random Order – ‟Glad To See You Go” – Not A Perfect World (1995) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – https://randomorder.bandcamp.comhttps://cashboxcanada.ca/taxonomy/term/265
* The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Feat. Jaime Hanna & Jonathan McEuen – ‟The Lowlands” – Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. III [Disc 1] (2002) – Long Beach, California, USA (Plus Guests) – Bob Carpenter, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band – https://www.nittygritty.com
* Padraig Rynne – ‟The sweat house / Jackson’s” – Begin With The End In Mind  (2022) – Ennis, County Claire, Ireland – https://padraigrynne.bandcamp.com/album/begin-with-the-end-in-mind – http://www.padraigrynne.com/
* Monster Ceilidh Band – ‟Never Will” – Mutation (2017) – Manchester, England, UK – Amy Thatcher, piano acc. – https://haystackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/monster-ceilidh-band-mutationhttps://monsterceilidhband.co.uk
* Tommy Duchesne, accordéon – ‟Money musk américain” (1939) [Free Accordion Noir stickers for best interpretation real or made-up for the meaning of this title.] – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada – Montréal, Québec, Canada – https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/pages/virtual-gramophone.aspx – www.nlc-bnc.ca
* Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser – ‟Innermission 9  ” – Two For the Road (2022) – Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Brooklyn, New York, USA – https://ericandwill.info
https://willholshouser.com/
https://eric-will.bandcamp.com/album/two-for-the-road
* Amédé Ardoin and Dennis McGee – ‟Sunset” – Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929 – 1934 (1934) – Louisiana, USA – www.TompkinsSquare.com
* Little Suns – ‟Sunboat” – Normal Human Feelings (2013) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – John Aaron Cockburn, acc. – www.LittleSuns.ca
* The Langer’s Ball – ‟The Titanic ” – Ships Are Sailing (2009) – Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA – http://www.thelangersball.com

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 not have even realised that we hadn’t yet gotten around to sharing it. But here it is, in all its squeezy glory.

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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

(“Can we embed the Mastodon post I wrote about Steve Otfinoski’s Golden Age of Novelty Songs (2000)?
https://mastodon.social/@AccordionBruce/117006120597985174 ?”) (Well, yes and no:)

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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, so our apologies for some speed bumps over the past couple of weeks. If it helps to make up for it, we did just make a lot of “lost” historical episodes available once again last month, nearly a year’s worth to tide you over. Happily, it is looking like we have figured things out going forward, so please do enjoy the subject of this post, last night’s fresh new episode of our program!

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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

[Audacity downloads a high-fidelity 141mb file at about twice CD quality. I resampled it to this version at a lower bit-rate, about equal to the quality of most of my original audio files. So it’s better than the broadcast and the stream probably. But a bigger file than we’ve been using before.]

The Playlist:

AccNoir–2026-08-12, August the Augmented

Back to a show of random global squeezebox doings.

With a few references to bandcamp friday’s missed, and a rabbit hole into country western women in the 1940’s.

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Johanna Juhola & Lena Jonsson – ‟Ispolskan” – Power of Polska (2026) – Finland/Sweden – www.nordic-notes.de – https://nordicnotes.bandcamp.com/ – www.johannajuhola.net
* Chuy Gutierrez Y Los De Colombia – ‟Cumbia Del Tamal” – Chuy Gutierrez Y Los De Colombia (single) (2024) – Mexico – https://growdisc.bandcamp.com (Licensing classic cumbia artists from way back)
* Amadou Barry – ‟Attyouta Houbhan” – Super Accordeon Du Fouta – Djiba Mane (0) – Guinea, West Africa – https://archive.org/details/amadou-barry-super-accordeon-du-fouta-b-3-lumben – (Not the live recordings Jared Snyder gave me that are rougher but have more accordion. I don’t know where those came from.)
* The voice of Barbara Adler – “The Only Thing Louder Than A Talking Audience Is An Accordion” – Airport Interview, from Accordion Noir 2010-02-19, Pee Wee King’s Birthday! Western Swing (2010) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://web.archive.org/web/20111117180828/http://www.badler.ca/
* Fang – ‟Things I Lose” – Diskopatska (2011) – Vancouver, BC, Canada –http://www.dropcards.com/diskopatska/content/index.php – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adler I see Barbara’s Wikipedia doesn’t mention her corralling the Underdog Instrument Grudge Matches at our Accordion Noir Festival. A gross oversight.
* Merle Travis – ‟No Vacency” – (“Soundy” film soundtrack) (1946) – Hollywood, California, USA – Betty de Vere, acc.

* Red Ingle & Jo Stafford – ‟Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)” – single (1947) – Hollywood, California, USA – “Red Ingle & The Natural Seven, vocals by Cinderella G. Stump and Red Ingle”
* Judy Hayden – ‟Feudin’ Fussin’ and Fightin’  (Dinner Bell Round-Up)” – Women Of Western Swing (1948) – Los Angeles, California, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudin’_and_Fightin‘ (Wiki doesn’t include this version from a Dinner Bell Round Up, radio transcription disk.) – https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/140163
* Balún – ‟Las Abejas” – Memoria Textil (2010) – Brooklyn, New York / Puerto Rico – https://balun.bandcamp.comwww.balunonline.com
* DLÙ – ‟Bràighe Loch Iall” – Moch (2022) – Glasgow, Scotland  – https://www.facebook.com/dluband/ Zach Ronan, acc
* Tamarack – ‟Magdalen McGillivray” – Leaving Inverarden (1995) – Guelph, Ontario, Canada – https://tamarack1.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-inverarden
* 6hunesseq – ‟Nuta, inimene” – Ma olen maa peal võõras (2024) – Estonia – https://nordicnotes.bandcamp.com/album/6hunesseq-ma-olen-maa-peal-v66ras
I should have done more research to pronounce this on the air. It’s not regular Estonian. Rather, Estonian Wikipedia says: 6hunesseq (from the Võru language, õhunesseq, ‘humidity’). But I don’t know what that “6” is doing there? https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/6hunesseq

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 12th. Well… you can use it as a well-in-advance buyer’s guide for the next Bandcamp Friday on September 4th. Independent of its intended purpose, it’s another great hour of varied accordion musics, so despite its untimeliness it should still be a lot of fun to listen to. 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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-08-05, Bandcamp Friday for What it’s Worth

This Friday, Aug 7, is Bandcamp Friday, when artists get around 90% of proceeds. That’s much higher than other platforms, so take the opportunity to use this cash machine to throw some support to your favourite artist.

If you like any of the bands we play, consider buying a record on Friday. Consider it a way to put a bill or two in the hat.

Click to find out the hours of Bandcamp Friday (California time) in relation to your location:
https://isitbandcampfriday.com

More info on Bandcamp Friday for 2026:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2026 on the following dates:
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th

Also
* Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.

Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

And if you’re in near us in British Columbia, hop a ferry over to the Chemainus Accordion Festival!
August 15 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
https://cvcas.ca/event/accordion-festival-3

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Vinta – ‟Marjo and Everest” – Beacons (2022) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Elisabeth Melchior, acc. – https://vinta.bandcamp.com/ – http://vintamusic.com/
* Marie-Desneiges Hamel of La Déferlance and Bruce Triggs – ‟Marie-Desneiges Hamel stinger 100.5” – Vancouver Folk Festival 2026 (2026) –  – https://thefestival.bc.ca
* La Déferlance – ‟Matante à loups” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell – ‟The War to End All Wars” – Everything is Great! (2026) – Prince Edward Island, Canada / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Sharon Shannon, Melodeon – https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/ – https://theburninghell.bandcamp.com – http://www.theburninghell.com/
* Gogol Bordello – ‟Gut Guidance” – Solidaritine (2022) – US / Ukraine – www.gogolbordello.comhttps://gogolbordello.bandcamp.com
* Leveret – ‟Mr Lane’s Minuet” – Forms (2023) – Stroud, UK – https://leveretband.bandcamp.com/http://www.leveretband.com/
Andy Cutting (melodeon), Sam Sweeney (fiddle) and Rob Harbron (concertina)
* Lydia Mendoza – ‟Aunque Me Odies” – Tejano Roots – The Women (1954) – Houston, Texas, USA – https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolie – https://arhoolierecords.bandcamp.com/album/tejano-roots-the-women-1946-1970
* Broodmen – ‟Through The Woods” – Liminality (2025) – Serbia – Lazar Novkov, acc.; Dragan Alimpijević Pik, Gtr; Zoltán Simon, Drms – https://broodmen.rs – https://broodmen.bandcamp.com
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn – ‟The Queen and the Nightman” – The Devil’s On The Mast (2023) – England, UK – Kirsty Merryn, voc; Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com – kirstymerryn.com
* 3 Leg Torso – ‟Frailach #1” – Animals & Cannibals (2010) – Portland, Oregon, USA – Courtney Von Drehle.
acc.
http://www.3legtorso.com/ – https://3legtorso.bandcamp.com/
* TURFU – ‟I love You Baby” – Astrale Nouba (2021) – Paris, France – https://turfu.bandcamp.com
* Turlu Tursu – ‟Turban Dance Squad” – The All Weathers Country (2010) – Belgium – www.homerecords.be – https://homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com/album/the-all-weathers-country
* angel corpus christi – ‟Rock and Roll Heart” – Louie Louie (2003) –  – http://www.angelcorpuschristi.com/ – https://angelcorpuschristi.bandcamp.com

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 typewriter and accordion share the same year of patent? Yes. 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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

Accordion Noir 2026-07-22, Wednesday Comes Forth in July

Bruce recovering from the Folk Festival, the heat, the smoke, asthma, and so forth.

Pretty good set, except the end petered out as Bruce tried to talk over a typewriter sound-effect reel.
That’s the reduction of perfectionism that’s come with our return to live radio.

Catch the Fugitives at the Mission Folk Festival (Fri–Sat, July 24–26) and tell them you miss their accordion players if they don’t pull one out of the crowd:
https://www.fugitives.ca/ – https://missionfolkmusicfestival.ca/

* Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.

Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* The Outside Track – ‟Madam, Madam” – Curious Things Given Wings (2010) – Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, Canada – Fiona Black, acc.   www.theOutsideTrack.com – https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-outside-track
* Fugitives – ‟Graffiti Sex” – In Streetlight Communication (2007) – Vancouver, Canada – http://www.fugitives.ca/
* C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band – ‟Too Much Fun” – Too Much Fun (1995) – Port Arthur, Texas, USA – http://www.officialcjchenier.com –
* Alex Meixner – ‟Kimberly” – Stay All Night (0) – Denton, Texas, USA – http://alexmeixner.com/Welcome.htmlwww.polkafreakout.com
* Aaron Collis – ‟Before Daylight in the Morning / Bren Tobin’s Jigs” – Before Daylight in the Morning (2022) – Newfoundland, Canada – https://aaroncollis.com
* Diab Quintet – ‟La No Buleria del fantasma azul” – Seagull Tango (2016) – Liège, Belgium – Jonathan De Neck, Diatonic Acc. https://homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com/album/seagull-tango
* Rattletrap Ruckus – ‟Temperamental Rag” – Redlight Rag (2013) – Bellingham, WA, USA – www.RattletrapRuckus.com  Lucas Hicks, acc.
* Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws – ‟I Ain’t Lazy Baby I’m Just Tired” – from Kevin Coffey’s personal collection (1947) – Fort Worth, Texas, USA – (Eddie Grady, or possibly Charles Goodwin, acc.)
* The Waterboys – ‟The Trip To Broadford” – Room to Roam [Deluxe Version] [Disc 1] (1990) – Scotland, Ireland, UK – Sharon Shannon, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_to_Roam
* Tin Hat – ‟Dionysus” – The Sad Machinary Of Spring (2006) – USA, San Francisco – http://www.tinhattrio.com/
* Amadou Barry – ‟Track 01” – Super Accordeon Du Fouta – Djiba Mane (0) – Guinea, Africa – I got this from Jared Snyder – NOT the cassette available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/amadou-barry-super-accordeon-du-fouta-b-3-lumben
* Al Dexter – ‟Fisherman’s Boogie” – The Original Pistol Packin’ Mama (0) –  –
* Pinata Protest – ‟Apogee” – Necio Nights (2017) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – http://www.pinataprotestband.com/
*  ‟Office, Typewriter” (Playing this sound effect record live distracted me so much I forgot what I was going to say. Uncomfortable live radio stumble here. Yikes.)
* Co-Op Radio – ‟Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
* Ongoing: Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio – If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode! – https://www.cri-irc.ca/
* ‟Office, Typewriter” – Remembered I wanted the typewriter sound-effect to introduce this “typewriter” song to commemorate the coincidental patenting of William Burt’s 1829 “Typographer” typewriter patent (first US typewriter patent) on the same year as Cyrill Demian’s “Accordion” patent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)
* Maria Arambula – ‟Typewriters and Guns” – Ray City, Georgia, USA – bit of acc at the end of this track. – Not sure if Arambula is the one who ran for City Council and did Library stuff down there in Ray City. Can’t recall if they sent us this track directly? My record keeping is fading out at the end of this episode. Blame everything on the smoke.

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

Recommendations not to miss at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival!

This year’s accordion groups La Déferlance from Québec, and Yagódy from Ukraine are both playing on Saturday, July 18. Do not miss Yagódy on the West Stage (over beyond the Main Stage) early at 10:30 am Saturday, because these two accordion bands at the festival are then double-booked at 4:40 pm (Sat) so you’ll have to pick one. La Déferlance are also doing a Sunday July 19, noonish shared-stage (“workshop” in Canadian folk-fest jargon) with Scottish small-pipe wiz Brighde Chaimbeul. Included on this week’s Acc Noir episode in an act of Bagpipe solidarity, Chaimbeul is also playing at Noon+10 on Saturday at Vancouver Squeezebox Circle leader Alan Zisman’s East Stage to the right of the gate past the kid’s area.

We also played Billy Bragg on tonight’s episode, who’s playing at the Festival Main-Stage on Saturday night. He might not bring an accordionist, but you never know when you’ll see one. If you do, let me know if you can and maybe I can interview them.

* Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.

Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Vancouver Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/

* CP2607 – until july 19 – ‟Van Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026)” –  (0) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
* La Déferlance – ‟Forcalquier” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Yagódy – ‟Ne lamai kalynu (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
* Brìghde Chaimbeul – ‟Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed Of Mirth)” – Carry Them With Us – Songlines Magazine CD #188 (June 2023) (2023) – Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland – https://www.brichaimbeul.com – https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com
* Billy Bragg & Wilco – ‟Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (featuring Natalie Merchant)” – Mermaid Avenue (1998) – England/USA – Elizabeth Steen, acc.  Eliza Carthy, fiddle. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Avenue
* Yagódy – ‟Koni (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
* La Déferlance – ‟Le bégayeux” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Geoff Berner – ‟How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box” – 7 Plague Songs (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/ – https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com
* Monsieur Camembert (after Leonard Cohen) (and Bo Diddley?) – ‟Who By Fire (featuring Elana Stone)” – Famous Blue Cheese – the Leonard Cohen Show (2007) – Sydney, Australia – Marcello Maio, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Camembert
* Yagódy – ‟BramaYA (2025)” – Single (2025) – Ukraine – https://yagody.org/ – https://yagodyofficial.bandcamp.com
* Martin Green – ‟Etteridge – Featuring Brìghde Chaimbeul” – The Portal (2020) – UK / Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland – www.martingreenmusic.co.ukhttps://martingreenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-portal
* La Déferlance – ‟La coureuse d’érables” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Co-Op Radio – ‟Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/
* Ongoing: Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio – If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode! – https://www.cri-irc.ca/

Geoff Berner – ‟How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box”– 7 Plague Songs (2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.geoffberner.com/ – https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com

Also: over on Mastodon they’re starting talking about #ThisIsNotFine and proposing everything from contacting your MP’s on up:
https://flipping.rocks/@nev/116919528182502589

“Postcards may be sent postage-free to any Member of Parliament at the following address:”

[Name of Member of Parliament]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6

Find your MP:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-07-08, Six, Seven, Eight

Learn basic Number Skills with the help of the Accordion!

This week’s tenuous episode theme brought to you by the inconsequential congruence of a few of the numerals in the date when lined up in the only logical order: 2026-07-08

Also mentioned this episode:

2026 ACCORDION SEMINARS
EVOLUTION IN THE REALM OF PERMANENT TRANSITION
Dr William Schimmel, curator – Our 32nd year –
Sponsored by: THE ACCORDION GLOBAL ASSOCIATION
July 31 August 1 and 2 – virtual
Master Classes at 3 PM – Concerts at 4 PM
Info and Reservations: – AccordionBill@gmail,com – 917 498 6823 – 212 876 0827
https://billschimmel.com/2016seminars/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2335542546964144

* NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca

* Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.

Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Creaking Planks – ‟Numbers and Names” – Flogged Round the Fleet () – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://creakingplanks.com/
* Flaco Jiménez – ‟Borracho #1” – Buena Suerte, Señorita (2015) – San Antonio, Texas, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaco_Jiménez
* Unknown – “African Test Pressing #2” – Excavated Shellac  – (“The matrix number on this disk is right next to one labeled ‘Zulu men,’ so this may be from South Africa”) – The story of this disk (and guesses on its origin): https://excavatedshellac.com/category/south-africa/
* John Delafose & The Eunice Playboys – ‟Joe Pete Lost His Two Women” – Joe Pete Got Two Women (2011) – Louisiana, USA – https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolie
* Henry Doktorski – ‟Three Preludes, 3” – Classical Accordion Recital (2005) – USA – henrydoktorski.com
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn – ‟Knock Four Times” – The Devil’s On The Mast (2023) – England, UK – Kirsty Merryn, voc; Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com – kirstymerryn.com
* Buckwheat Zydeco – ‟Five Card Stud” – Ultimate Collection (1994) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – https://www.buckwheatzydeco.com
* Paul Friedman And Jody Kruskal – ‟Wreck of the Six Wheeler” – Paul & Jody (2010) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://www.jodykruskal.com
* Amsterdam Klezmer Band – ‟Magnificent Seven Medley” – Mokum (2012) – Amsterdam, the Netherlands – www.amsterdamklezmerband.nl
* Blowzabella – ‟Eight Step Waltz / Lisa / Stukka Gruppa” – Compilation (1995) – UK – http://blowzabella.com
* Kurt Hoffman’s Band of Weeds – ‟Revolution #9” – I Water Your Dreams: The Complete Studio Tracks (1991-93) (2011) – New York, New York, USA – Anne DeMarinis, acc. – http://bandofweeds.bandcamp.com
* Pee Wee King (Frank Julius Anthony Kuczynski) – ‟Ten Gallon Boogie” – Blue Suede Shoes: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (1947) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Nashville, Tennessee, USA – http://www.bear-family.de   Bill Haley’s “rock around the clock” a few years later sounds like this doesn’t it? This song is the ring-tone that reminds me to be ready to do the radio show every week. – My candidate for the accordion version of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_rock_and_roll_record
* Creaking Planks – ‟Song of the Count” – Untitled Demo (year?) – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – http://creakingplanks.com/
* Lozenge – ‟Numbercrunchr” – Doozy (2000) – Chicago, Illinois, USA – Kyle Bruckmann, acc. – http://kylebruckmann.com/category/lozenge/
* The Scarring Party – ‟Ten Thousand Steps” – Woke Up With Fangs (2011) – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – http://scarringparty.bandcamp.com
* Night of 1000 Buttons Audience – ‟Eleven More Songs chant” – From the “Night of a Thousand Buttons”
 Railway Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (Jan 25, 2008)
* Summer Radio Day Camp PSA (play until July 20)” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
* Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-07-01, Canada Day Oh!

Donate Now – FIRST PEOPLES’ CULTURAL FOUNDATION
Accordion Hero Geoff Berner suggests donating to Indigenous language revitalization for Canada Day. Please join us:

The First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation is an Indigenous-led registered charity that funds community-based revitalization of Indigenous languages, arts and cultural heritage.
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/7008

Also:
* Nimble Fingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca

* Sponsor a child for Co-op Radio Day Camp! $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

Tonight’s playlist of Canada Day Content!

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Quartetto Gelato – ‟Anon: Dark Eyes” – Quartetto Gelato (2005) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://quartettogelato.ca/
* Ana Bon-Bon – ‟Snake Bite” – Night of 1000 Buttons (2008) – From the “Night of a Thousand Buttons”
 Railway Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (Jan 25, 2008) – www.anabonbon.com
* De Temps Antan – ‟Jeune et Jolie” – Les Habits de Papier (2010) – Quebec, Canada – http://detempsantan.qc.ca/en
* Ten Thousand Wolves – ‟Sleepy Eyed John” – Ten Thousand Wolves: Johnny Horton Remix (2014) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adler – (We’ve got to update her Wikipedia links)
* Philippe Bruneau – ‟Swing La Gaspésienne / Gaspé Swing” – Philippe Bruneau (1973) – Quebec, Canada – http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=94
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/philippe-bruneau
* Van Folk Music Festival (July 17, 18, 19 2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/
* La Déferlance – ‟Âmes des bois” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Elly Kelly – ‟Wotton’s Reel” – Home Sweet Home (2008) – New Brunswick, Canada – https://www.northumberlandnews.com/news/the-world-accordion-to-campbellfords-elly-kelly/article_d385b78f-7fec-5565-b6fc-1eeabeca2f03.html – https://www.weaverfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Elly-Kelly?obId=362006
* Loreena McKennitt – ‟The Highwayman” – The Book Of Secrets (1997) – Stratford, Ontario, Canada – https://loreenamckennitt.com
* Kapik Pudlat – ‟Track 12?” – Pangnirtung Music Festival 1999 disk 1 (1999) – Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada – From David Idoris Boileau (who made the recordings). “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangnirtung,_Nunavut
* Minnie White – ‟Coastal Memories” – The Hills Of Home (1994) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.rambles.net/white_hills94.html – https://www.fredsrecords.com/site/shop/minnie-white-the-hills-of-home/
* Gordon Fleming – ‟The Song Is Ended” – According To Gordie (year?) – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://famgroup.ca/gordiefleming/navigation/gordie.htm (Internet Archive)
* Polka Dogs – ‟If I Could Say I Love You” – The Bee (2018) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Tiina Kiik, acc. – http://thepolkadogs.com
* Joseph Plante, accordéon – ‟Marche des pompiers = March of” – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1930) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/pages/virtual-gramophone.aspx – www.nlc-bnc.ca
* Summer Radio Day Camp (2026) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
* Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country – https://www.cri-irc.ca/

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-06-24, Still Mostly Midsummarizing

* Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026)
This summer, Vancouver Co-op Radio is launching an exciting Radio Day Camp for youth aged 10–14. This interactive program is designed to spark creativity, teamwork, and confidence through hands-on broadcasting and media workshops.

Sponsor a child for $60/day or $300/week, donate pizza, supplies or equipment.
Donate here: https://coopradio.org/support-the-next-generation-of-young-broadcasters/

* Vancouver Folk Music Festival is coming up – July 17, 18, 19 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada – https://thefestival.bc.ca/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Swamperella – ‟Bosco Stomp” – Swamperella (2001) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – http://www.swamperella.com/
* Alexander Sevastian – ‟D. Scarlatti. Sonata In D” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) – Thornhill, Ontario, Canada – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sevastian
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion – ‟As we party oblivious ” – And Even the Sheep Shall Dance (2024) – England, UK – Adam Summerhayes, fiddle; Murray Grainger, piano acc. – http://theciderhouserebellion.com/ – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
* Aldo Granato – ‟Aérosphère” – La Noche (2006) – Belgium – https://dionacore.be – https://www.facebook.com/aldogranato
* Hossam Ramzy – ‟Sanatein Wanahyel Feek!” (“I have pleaded with you for two years”) – El Amar (The Moon) (2000) – Egypt, North Africa – Belly Dance,  Mohsen Allaam, acc.
* Lars Hollmer – ‟Boeves Psalm” – Swedish Summer Favorites (year?) – Sweden – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Hollmer
* Trio Mio – ‟Wrong Word, Right?” – Pigeon Folk Pieces (2005) – Denmark – http://www.triomio.dk/index_e.html
* Oysterband – ‟Mississippi Summer (Alt. Version)” – This House Will Stand (2016) – UK – http://www.oysterband.co.uk
* Michael Reinhart – ‟Bide My Time” – Echo (2013) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – www.MichaelReinhart.com
* Emily Portman & Rob Harbron – ‟Meeting Point” – Time Was Away (2022) – UK – http://www.emilyportman.co.uk
https://robharbron.com (Rob plays English Concertina in Leveret) – https://emilyandrob.uk/ – https://emilyandrob.bandcamp.com/
* Clifton Chenier – ‟French Zydeco” – Live! At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival (1966) – Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Chenier
* Clifton Chenier – ‟What’d I Say” – Live! At The 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival (1966)

* Summer Radio Day Camp PSA (play until July 20)” – Co-op Radio Day Camp (2026) – Register your kid for our Summer Radio Day Camp: https://coopradio.org/register-to-our-summer-radio-day-camp/
*  NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (Take your accordion in the name of original Bluegrass Girl Sally Ann Forrester) – Sorento, BC, Canada – Workshop Week 1: July 5–10, 2026 – Festival: July 11, 2026 – Workshop Week 2: July 12–17, 2026 – https://www.nimblefingers.ca

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!

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 Reed’s Titano Cosmopolitan Converter accordion, so if those topics strike your fancy, do not hesitate before hitting that play button! 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 haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for its membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of this week’s episode:

AccNoir–2026-06-17, Mid-June Check-In

This very weekend! The Cowichan Bluegrass Festival – June 19-21, 2026 – https://cowichanbluegrass.com/

Added to last week’s podcast playlist, and referenced on this week’s show for their work in Belfast. Bruce is supporting:
Anaka Women’s Collective is raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. Every penny raised will go to transport, emergency accommodation and urgent supplies for families. Any remaining funds will be used to towards sustaining and developing the emergency response and solidarity groups that acted around the clock to ensure families were not alone. You can donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/185445-support-people-and-groups-impacted-by-racist-attacks?

Ongoing the Community Radio Initiative campaign, aimed at supporting Canadian community radio. If you’re Canadian you can click this link and send personal emails to your local Members of Parliament that will help Accordion Noir and stations like Vancouver’s Co-op Radio across the country. You’ll be our accordion radio hero, so do it while listening to today’s episode!
https://www.cri-irc.ca/

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* The Dardanelles – ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* La Déferlance – ‟Hommage à Guy Thomas” – Âmes des bois (2025) – Quebec City, Québec, Canada – Marie-Desneiges Hamel, acc. – https://ladeferlance.com/ – https://ladeferlance.bandcamp.com
* Hassouna Bangaladish – ‟Benayya (Little Girl)” – Hossam Ramzy Presents Azza: Music From Sudan (2003) – Sudan, North-East Africa – http://www.maqam.com/  (online Arabic music store, they also sold keyboards with Arabic scales, neat!)
* Nathalie Natiembé – ‟Tangaz Pa Tro For” – Sankèr (2005) – Reunion Island, (East of Madagascar), Africa – Régis Gizavo, acc 
* Cirkestra – ‟Charivari” – Alice (2004) – Massachusetts, USA – FrickinCircus.org  www.cirkestra.com
* 5 Cent Coffee – ‟AyaSofia” – West Coast Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar 2010 (2009) – San Francisco, California,  USA – Heidi Wohlwend, aka “Doodles LaRue”, acc. – https://5centcoffee.bandcamp.com/ –  https://accordionpinupcalendar.com/
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion – ‟New Kilns” – Genius Loci 2 : The Valley of Iron (2022) – UK – Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
* Iona Reed – ‟Dance of the Hours” – (With Karl Pukara) – World Accordion Champion (1963) – Sudbury, Ontario, Canada  – https://www.discogs.com/release/18760114-Iona-Reed-With-Karl-Pukara-World-Accordion-Champion – https://www.facebook.com/groups/404911483574045/permalink/2113348506063659/

* Sam Baardman – ‟Someday My Father” – The Rookery (1999) – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – http://sambaardman.com
* Renato Borghetti – ‟Barra Do Ribeiro” – gaita ponto com (0) – Brasil (Brazil) – http://www.renatoborghetti.com.br/eng_default.asp
* Vaovy – ‟Vamba” – Vamba (1998) – Madagascar, Africa – Régis Gizavo, acc. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Régis_Gizavohttp://www.rootsworld.com/freereed/gizavo.html

Thanks for reading us here (and hopefully listening to us, there), but if you find you want more, you can always keep up with us on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and BlueSky (accordionnoir.bsky.social), Instagram (@AccordionNoirFest), and Facebook at Accordion Noir fans, the Accordion Noir Festival, and the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle.  Cheers & squeeze on!