Here it is, last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! I don’t know if Bruce had a theme this week beyond “here’s what’s going on in my corner of the accordion world” — this year’s Eurovision accordion number has washed up (yay, Moldova!) and Bruce just returned from presenting […]

It’s a heady time to be a supporter of accordion music or community radio in our corner of the world. Our parent radio station, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, is undertaking its annual spring member drive to fundraise for its ongoing activities — we’d like to strongly encourage you to top up your financial support, if […]

I don’t know if Bruce reflected the burgeoning Spring season in his programming this week or not, but it doesn’t matter: it’s here. As for tonight’s episode of our weekly hour-long alt-accordion broadcast on CFRO Co-Op Community Radio… well, it does partially reflect what’s going on out in the world today, notably Bruce’s principled opposition […]

By pre-recording these episodes of our weekly hour-long CFRO radio program, as he has been doing since the start of the pandemic, the Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs has been in a very different situation from that of the previous decade-and-a-half of live broadcasts: now he has the option of listening to them after they […]

Last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is now up and available for your listening enjoyment online. While some episodes have a strong narrative theme running through the programming, looking over this week’s playlist I think we have returned to our traditional wheelhouse: a solid set of songs all […]

🪗 🇺🇦🪗 Hi, Bruce from Accordion Noir here. I want to ask you to join Accordion Noir fans in raising $1,000 in humanitarian aid for Ukraine! 🇺🇦🪗 🇺🇦 Donate directly to the great organization RazomForUkraine.org (Razom means “Together” in Ukrainian). What’s an accordion worth? How about $1,000 of humanitarian aid for Ukraine! This week at […]

It’s been a turbulent March to be certain, and the fate of our little weekly hour-long accordion music radio program has been of course among the sleightest of concerns impacted by global events… but all the same, we’ve pulled ourselves together, ending March the same way we are accustomed to spending it: devoting one more […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is very in our wheelhouse, featuring songs in a bafflingly wide array of genres from all over the globe, with strong representation from women accordionists (for IWD!) and a slow arc toward social justice. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]

I’ll level with you: just by scanning the contents of the playlist, I have no idea what is the theme of tonight’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly alt-squeezebox broadcast Accordion Noir. I think that it may just be a journey Bruce needs to take you on, through an emotional landscape, and the only […]

For some, it’s sufficient to celebrate International Women’s Day. Our DJ Bruce likes to lean in to affirmative action, sometimes programming exclusively songs written and performed by women for the entire month of March. If this trend holds true, there’s a very good chance you’ll be hearing more out of the wonderful women of accordion […]