This 2017 album not only features a hare on its album art, but… it is available on Bandcamp! How often do things align so neatly like that? It is that time again, friends: the first Friday of the month is Bandcamp Friday, when musicians can keep more of your online purchase dollar than they can […]

Here’s another new episode of CFRO Co-op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, digitized for your listening convenience! Surveying its playlist, I can’t assert with great authority that it offers any particular theme beyond our standard mix of different flavours of squeezebox music from all over the world, but shouldn’t that be enough? [Bruce: […]

Trains are once again the theme of last night’s episode of CFRO’s (about which, see below) weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, for very different reasons from the week before. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio […]

Our alt-accordion radio program’s host Bruce is once again going to be abroad on the night of our weekly broadcast, so he has pre-recorded this episode to air this Wednesday night. (You online listeners can get the drop on the ones limited to only experiencing our program over the radio.) If I am interpreting his […]

Another month, another round of Bandcamp Friday — the first Friday of the month, where the Bandcamp music e-storefront waives its cut of profits and allows participating musicians, including more than a few accordionists, to enjoy the greatest compensation rate in the industry. When these occasions come up, for working musicians to actually get paid, […]

As of this writing, the final few minutes of this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast have yet to sound out over the airwaves, yet by the wonder of the Internet the entire program is now up available online! Indeed, if you were exceedingly quick on the draw, you […]

(Image: VFMF mascot Pete Seagull playing accordion, from the album sleeve of the 3rd annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival commemorative recording, 1980, found in the old CFRO basement vinyl archives. Image re-used from our 2017 “Fests Bests” episode.) Music fans, you may have heard the bad news from our neck of the woods: the Vancouver […]

Hot off the radio presses, here’s last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, featuring the deepest cuts and dankest selections in the very small world of accordion radio. This week’s episode lacks a coherent overall theme other than to share a set of great squeezebox tunes with you, so […]

“En sommerdag”, Gerda Wegener, 1927. New year, new crop of historical recordings emerging into the Public Domain (in the United States, at least.) Know what was burgeoning in 1927? If you guessed “accordion music”, you would probably already have a good handle on this program’s format. Everything in this week’s episode is entering the Public […]

Bruce is drawing a line in the sand against tradition. As we’ve been demonstrating with our churning up our old archival posts, there was a time we’d devote December to “year in review” content, giving triumphant tunes a victory lap. Now he feels there is too much urgency to share contemporary music while it is […]