Yesterday’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is out! I see French and Spanish in the titles of the songs we aired, and I see tunes clearly telegraphed as belonging to the klezmer and celtic genres… in short, it’s another brilliant mix of our trademark international melange! (Not at all the […]

The music programming of last night’s episode of Accordion Noir had no rhyme or reason Don’t take it up with me, Bruce picked the songs and he himself described the selection as “random”. Of course, that uncertainty still occurred within certain parameters…  It remains a set of great squeezebox tunes representing numerous disparate musical traditions […]

Bruce is at it again: there is an injustice going on somewhere in the world (well, in our backyard), and even though his platform is optimised for delivering accordion music, specifically, he is commandeering it to share his strong and worthwhile feelings on the matter with a wider audience.  The first few songs in tonight’s […]

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, sharing the greatest alt-squeezebox tunes in history from all over the world! Greetings to our contingent of new listeners from the Underground BBS Discord!  Our regular DJ Bruce (Bruce, do you have an underground club DJ name? Mine […]

Looking over the playlist of this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio, I can perceive no consistent theme other than our standard “a mix of great songs representing different musical traditions from different parts of the world” — a thematic failure of the imagination of sorts, but one whose ends still justify its means. But […]

Greetings, friends! We’ve been keeping it low-key, to suppress attendance (these are strange times!), but we do want to give everyone a chance to catch… the 14th annual Accordion Noir Festival! In the interest of public health, it’s being conducted outdoors, as part of the Maclean Park Music series, the afternoon of Saturday, September 11th, […]

Here we are again, friends — it’s a new month, and with it the first Friday of that month, and with it… well, you already know how we like to celebrate Bandcamp Friday over in these parts. Here’s a chance for us to share music with you available for sale to benefit inadequately gigging squeezebox […]

The week of KlezKanada workshops is still underway, and the subject of last week’s episode of our weekly broadcast is, again, the subject of this week’s also! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital streaming audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s […]

The theme to this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is klezmer music, in honour of the upcoming virtual KlezKanada workshops and festivities ahead Aug 23-29. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as streaming digital audio courtesy […]

It’s hard to know how the pandemic chips are going to fall on a month to month basis. Last summer the numbers were relatively down and there was a window of opportunity for life to be lived in some degree of normalcy, where by “normalcy” we mean “you can enjoy your first live music performances […]