Frederic Deschamps from the Confédération Mondiale d’Accordéon posted this week about accordionist Galyna Oleksiv, who was killed on July 14, 2022 by a Russian missile in Ukraine. The folks at B&B Project (Ukraine’s well known Bayan and Bandura duo) posted about raising funds for her son, dreadfully injured when his mother was killed. The message below about […]

The theme of last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is a look at the squeezy offerings at this year’s Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, a longstanding tradition that has taken the last couple of years off for pandemic-related reasons.  It features many acts that often feature squeezebox, but […]

There’s, er, a lot going on in the world right now.  So much so, that I don’t know if it would be a reasonable expectation for Bruce to be able to reflect it in his chosen medium of “curation of free-reed music”. Consequently, from the looks of things, the lineup of songs in last night’s […]

Welcome back to Bruce, who celebrated his birthday off at the Leavenworth Accordion Festival last week and just breezed back into town realizing that he had an episode of our weekly hour-long radio program he needed to toss together to air last night! Fortunately, if Bruce rummages around in his couch cushions for loose accordion […]

Bandcamp is at it again, with one of its special fundraising Bandcamp Friday initiatives passing along the company’s cut of sale profits to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. It’s as good an excuse as any to buy accordion music from that platform, which offers vast realms of that good stuff, which also constitutes the musical […]

Given the US Supreme Court’s recent throwing Roe vs. Wade into jeopardy, Bruce has decided to celebrate his imminent birthday by taking a stand (with accordion music, as is his style), and letting the world know that we celebrate abortion rights. Accordionically. It’s a difficult theme to coax out of the material we have to […]

(Painting of Jenny Conlee by Liouxsie’s Art.) For a long time, this blog would get two posts every week: one announcing that week’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, and another one announcing, for the benefit of those who missed it the first time around, the new online availability of the […]

It is now the month of June and June is, as you can see, Accordion Awareness Month. Chances are if you were not previously aware of accordion music, you probably have not found your way to this website, but there is always room to become more aware. Help your friends get a leg-up by playing […]

Greetings, squeezy friends, and welcome to another episode of CFRO Co-op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! This week’s theme turned from news of the day to the need for change growling out of Cormac Begley’s base concertina and on from there. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]

Our home base of Vancouver, BC, has not had a dedicated home for accordion repairs and sales for many a long year, an absence acutely felt since Renzo Faoro’s “Accordion House” on Renfrew closed up shop. We are fortunate enough to have regional hubs in other major cities a few hours’ travel away — Tempo […]