Not long ago, we observed a time of year that boasted multiple accordionic holidays taking place around the same time on the calendar. This week, conversely, sees an incredible conjunction of birthdays of profoundly influential accordionists across a wide range of styles and genres. This isn’t the first time we’ve built an episode of our […]

Not only is it Bandcamp Friday tomorrow, but it’s also the start of the month of March! To observe these two august (no, I said March!) occasions, Bruce has shared with us this week a playlist of accordionic marching music by squeezy musicians selling music on Bandcamp. If you hear something you like, maybe you […]

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 […]

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 selections, but nevertheless the songs are good and the music is hot and squeezy, so go get an earful! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old […]

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 worth investigating further!) 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 […]

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 to a musical playlist. 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 […]

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 solidarity and unity in times of great division. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]

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 — typically because the creators have been dead and the creations now forgotten for many decades hence. But in a world of […]