It’s the end of a heck of a year, so why not send it on its way in a blistering cavalcade of accordion music? That’s right, there is no convincing counter-argument. Fortunately, here we are to provide the soundtrack for your household’s changeover.  If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, […]

Another year, another Christmas Eve Eve. This week Bruce aired another squeezy power hour of accordion music on seasonal themes, going out over the airwaves at 100.5 fm courtesy of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio. 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 audio […]

Here we are, rounding the bend if not exactly flattening the curve — the light at the end of the tunnel is beginning to reveal itself, and the entire accursed spectacle that was 2020 will soon be behind us! These turbulent times deserve a spirited send-off. By which I mean accordion music, naturally. Happily, Bruce […]

Bruce is starting to get into a festive frame of mind, which is fine — there are so many excuses to celebrate, even if you are of no religious denomination, the imminent end of the accursed year 2020 should be sufficient cause! Anyhow, this is reflected in last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion […]

Last night’s hour-long episode of Accordion Noir radio is now up and available to be enjoyed by online listeners as well! It marks 14 wild years of weekly broadcasts since our first unlikely hour on the radio in the middle of the night, yow! Bruce would like to stress that you could do your favorite […]

This latest hour-long episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir radio program appears to be another smorgasbord specimen, offering up a little of this and a little of that, but yielding no genre or style in large quantities save accordions writ large. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can listen […]

Greetings and welcome to the announcement of another episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir radio program, now available online as a podcast! This week’s episode is very typical for us, a melange of tunes in different styles from different parts of the world, with a burbling sub-current of recordings by Canadian women percolating through the […]

This week’s Remembrance Day episode of Accordion Noir took a somewhat extraordinary tack. Bruce knew of the military intersection in the musical career of Black female accordionist Julie Gardner, right down to having read reviews of specific showstopping numbers she had included in her sets… but, sadly, due to sexism, racism and the vagaries of […]

A bit over a week and it feels like a world ago, as part of the spooky Fall Fund Drive for Vancouver Co-op Radio, we teamed up with our radio neighbour (normally on just before us), Brady Marks from the experimental sound-art show Soundscape. For years we’ve traded Pauline Oliveros tunes and talked about co-operating […]

We pondered long and hard how to best dovetail the live music world of our annual festival with the socially distanced world of Pandemic Planet, 2020. With all the emphasis on digital streaming, it occurred to us that as decade+ veterans of radio broadcasting… we were already old hands at finding ways into people’s eardrums […]