From… tomorrow night, here’s an episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir show, coming at you from the future, yet to air! Like Ebenezer Scrooge, you’re being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Radio Future. (Don’t worry, Tiny Tim’s interview will go off as planned, but the news hour technician will play the […]

Bruce reflected that the selection of songs in last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long episode of the Accordion Noir show was a good fit for our plunging into the darkest time of the year: “Good tunes tonight… Kind of a gloomy feel with some uplift brightness.” What would be more appropriate […]

There have been a whole lot of scripted, plotted, and exhaustively planned episodes of Accordion Noir recently. Phew! It’s a lot of work, but sometimes, if we play our cards right, DJing can be easy — as easy as a friend playing you their favorite albums from their record collection. So here is Bruce returning […]

Tonight’s episode of Accordion Noir features artists whose music is available on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of proceeds goes directly to musicians! So jump down to the playlist below, follow the links, and share some 💸 in exchange for nice sounds. First though, Accordion Noir Radio turns 15 today! [Bruce] was going through the archives […]

AccNoir-2021-11-24, #WetsuwetenStrong, #GeoffBerner50, and #AccordionNoirFestival Support Wet’suwet’en Land Defense! Tonight’s show opens with the Canadian government sending violent police to illegally arrest press and Native land-rights activists protesting a fossil fuel pipeline. Police helicopters and tanks are doing this in the middle of a deadly flood that cut the whole region of millions of people […]

Like “Trapped in the Drive-Thru”, you thought it might never come to an end. And yet here we are, Accordion Noir radio concluding our three-episode salute (episode 1, episode 2) to the unlikely career of “Weird Al” Yankovic. While he taps numerous sources for each of these installments, this week’s focus is on Nathan Rabin, the […]

Last week, Bruce got around to hosting a belated birthday celebration for the man who singlehandedly kept the accordion flame burning in the mainstream music industry through the 1980s and ’90s, the celebrated parodist known as “Weird Al” Yankovic. He conducted a number of interviews with authors of recent books examining his career and legacy, […]

Since Bruce published his accordion history book he’s been more tuned into the world of publishing, especially when he is joined in the relatively small club of people who have written and published new books pertaining to accordion affairs. There is one subset of Accordion Studies which is currently booming in the print world, and […]

You may not know it, but the Victoria period was rife with manifestations of unruly spirits, denied their eternal rest and driven to ensure that no one else enjoyed any — by appearing at seances and spectrally operating squeezeboxes! (Insert “polkageist” joke here.) Truth is stranger than fiction. To elaborate on the topic, a highly […]

Almost a year after our nearly-four-hour episode The Night The Drone Stood Still, in conjunction with our neighbours at the Soundscape program, Bruce decided it was time to revisit that well, whose level had hardly gone down after having a mere 240 minutes skimmed off of it. Tonight’s sequel features a further three hours from […]