Bandcamp is at it again! Through much of 2020, they helped locked-down gigging musicians by — one day a month — waiving their cut of proceeds from online music sales through their storefront. They did some deep soul-searching with their accountants in 2021 and the program was suspended, but this month at least, it’s back. […]

The heat is returning. Heavens preserve us! It’s hot enough without having to layer heat on heat with hot jazz. Couldn’t we have some cool jazz? Even luke-warm jazz, if icy jazz isn’t available. You don’t want the accordions to get too hot, or the beeswax in their reed banks will melt and then your […]

I’m far enough into listening to this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long “Accordion Noir” radio program, a couple of songs in, that I’ve just heard host Bruce Triggs describe this installment of the program as “a varied show of random stuff”, a default suspicion I assume to be informing any given […]

Here we are, another fresh new episode of CFRO Co-op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast. Just what is Bruce getting at here? I can discern no particular subtext through either the name he has given this program nor the selection of songs played in it, which follow a friendly and familiar formula of representing […]

Money. Go figure. Sometimes we promote accordionist fundraisers for various projects, sometimes when Bandcamp waives their fees, sometimes directing you to their album releases. Sometimes we book a hall and invite audiences to come and buy tickets to see them! And sometimes we simply play them on the radio, and through the magic of broadcasting, […]

It’s been so flippin’ hot here in Vancouver over the past few days, Bruce was concerned that he wasn’t going to be able to program a new episode of Accordion Noir for your listening enjoyment this week without risking damage to his vinyl records, beeswax accordion reed banks and elderly Apple Macbook in the extreme […]

With the coming of the solstice, warm, sunny weather has been unleashed throughout our homebase of Vancouver, BC, and I can see that the weather has been on the mind of our programmer Bruce, who curated a playlist of songs from the sunny side of the street to appear on this week’s hour-long episode of […]

The monthly “Bandcamp Fridays” artist-support events are on hiatus in favour of more focused fundraisers for specific causes. There’s a good one coming up this coming Friday, June 18th, commemorating the annual Juneteenth commemoration of the struggle to end slavery in the United States. Our relevant pool of known African-American accordionists on Bandcamp remains woefully […]

“Men dancing with each other on a beach with accordion player” (c. 1930), from the Queer Tango Image Archive. June is when most Pride celebrations kick off, so in its spirit here Bruce programmed a fabulous instalment of our weekly hour-long broadcast featuring some of the simply squeeziest LGBTQ2S+ artists out there. Turn on your […]

Poring over the playlist that Bruce provided, I could discern no emergent theme or topic to this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast. The songs are in every style, from every part of the world. (Of course, that’s the regular theme!) Don’t worry yourself trying to figure out what they […]