Happy New Year! Last night’s episode of our weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast took a look at some of the latest accordion music to enter the Public Domain in the United States, hot squeezebox tunes from nearly a hundred years ago — which was a good era for accordions! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]

Sometimes you run out of accordion playlists before you run out of weeks in the year. In a pinch during holiday activities Bruce had to quickly produce some tunes for last night’s episode of our weekly program, so he reached into his “long, contemplative improvised works” file that has served him so well in his “drone” […]

In all the holiday excitement, Bruce failed to notice that he hadn’t sent me the playlist for this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, and I had failed to notice that I hadn’t posted the epiode yet!  But no worries, we caught it in the nick of time. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]

It’s December! There are many occasions to celebrate at this time of year (and the always-festive lucky number 13), but for purposes of last night’s episode of our weekly alt-accordion radio broadcast, we jumped on a few recent birthday observances in the accordion world. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to […]

We’re inexorably inching our way toward the winter holiday season, one best characterised not only by what it offers but also what it takes away, so this week’s broadcast of Accordion Noir radio also observes the death of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]

This week’s hour-long episode of our weekly Accordion Noir broadcast doesn’t just look ahead to this Friday’s “Bandcamp Friday” sale (you pay the same, but a higher proportion of the purchase price makes its way to the artist), it also marks the occasion of the 17th anniversary of our first time on the air! Seventeen […]

Bruce is by himself in his apartment as the season turns, preparing to make a new run of accordion-themed buttons for his Etsy shop for squeezy fans to send (and receive) as gifts in a bit over a month from now. These circumstances undoubtedly played into his curatorial decisions when determing the specific programming content […]

October’s “Rise of the Long Tones” special borrowed a couple of hours from adjacent programs on our station schedule, so for the past couple of weeks we’ve been paying those hours back by allowing our neighbour shows to use our hour for their own extended CFRO member drive special purposes. Consequently, you haven’t heard much […]

For the third year in a row, we have celebrated Hallowe’en by devoting our weekly alt-accordion radio program to the theme of droning, with hypnotic long-form compositions in the vein of Pauline Oliveros’ “Deep Listening” compositions. Longer tracks demand a longer airtime, so here we are offering up three and a quarter hours (!) of […]

Like clockwork, here’s another new episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, first aired just under 12 hours ago last night. Every week we share some of the greatest squeezebox music in any style representing traditions from all around the planet, and last night was no exception! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]