This week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has several themes beyond its standard mandate to simply serve up squeezebox music for the masses. You can see the episode title for the full course of topics covered in this episode. Surely they would all warrant an episode of their own, but sometimes you’ve […]

Much going on in the world this week, both the accordion world and … otherwise. Bruce tries to round it up under one roof, but our three-ring circus is … a big tent. All the same, there’s a lot to enjoy in this week’s episode of our weekly program! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]

A couple of timely pieces of business came up in the meantime, but finally we are prepared to unveil the bonus second part of our Omnichord Noir special, a member drive reward to our listeners if we exceeded fundraising thresholds (which we did!) In this week’s episode, you get to make Bruce work to structure […]

May 6 is World Accordion Day. Bruce tells us that this is on the occasion of the patenting of the instrument, which will turn 200 on this date in only 8 more years! (What a time to be alive!)  Of course, there’s a lot more going on May 6 — many video streams, including the […]

Bruce was prepared to make good on a promise to deliver more of his unaired Omnichord interview materials from his recent member drive special if we passed a fundraising threshold for our parent radio station CFRO and, thanks to you generous listeners, we passed the threshold! But before he had a chance to share it, […]

In our early years we did these religiously — during the member drives of our parent radio station, CFRO Community Radio, we’d toss a bone to other neglected “underdog” instruments and devote an entire hour (or more!) to “variety spice” axes that didn’t happen to enjoy the support of a weekly radio program dedicated to […]

For the latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program, Bruce celebrated the birthday of musical activist and organizer Zilphia Horton, not just with Zilphia’s accordion music but with an interview with author Kim Ruehl, whose book A Singing Army – Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School, was just published! If your Apple or Android podcast […]

This week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio sees host Bruce reunited with one of the guiding lights of his alt-accordion obsession, Alicia J. “Miss Murgatroid” Rose, who has pivoted over the course of our beat toward a greater orientation toward film and photography. She has a very interesting work out (in conjunction with Alicia Jo […]

This week sees the first Friday of a new month — making April 2nd the next #BandcampFriday — meaning that you once again have the opportunity to support gig-starved #AccordionBandcamp musicians directly with your entertainment dollars! That is half the theme of this week’s episode, the other half being that wrapping up March as we […]

As if to add insult to injury, after the horrific events of last week, shortly before airtime Bruce learned that Oakland’s Mills College, home to the Center for Contemporary Music, had announced its sunsetting. Deep Listening innovator Pauline Oliveros launched the Centre and ran it during its first year, and returned to the facility to […]