Cheerful bantering in #AccordionTwitter about the desperate excesses of advertising copy in the failing final years of the Golden Age of the Accordion (the specimen quoted above is, apparently, doctored) led to this week’s double-length(+), member drive fundraiser “love songs” special episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast / podcast. If you haven’t yet been […]

Last night’s hour-long episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir radio broadcast has a focus on zydeco musician Andre Thierry, who we had the fortune to air an interview with courtesy of “Accordion Noir’s foreign-correspondent-for-a-day Tom Brouns” in Berkeley, California, USA on Oct 1st.  If you haven’t yet been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions, you can listen to […]

Another week, another episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox radio broadcast / podcast. Bruce likes to pitch me curveballs in trying to glean what a given episode’s theme is, but judging by the title he provided, even he was a little unclear this time around. Seems that its closing act builds to a […]

Tonight’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast seems to hammer home our standard theme: accordion music in every style, deceptively representing many diverse and far-flung cultures and corners of the planet: for example, we offer up tango and klezmer, francophone music from France, Quebec and… Nova Scotia, a recording of the […]

As is often the case, Bruce’s choice of title for this week’s episode of CFRO’s Accordion Noir radio program is simply too clever for me. Is he suggesting that the past four years have simply been some bad fever dream? If you read between the lines you can make out current headlines in his song […]

Addendum: Bruce put together all the videos we played on this episode (with commentary) for you to watch over here

Two weeks ago, Bruce prepared this pre-recorded episode for airplay, in case he wasn’t feeling up to hosting a show live on the air following his recent scheduled medical business. Well, I don’t know if he wasn’t feeling well enough, or if he just didn’t want to allow it to cut into his Twitter mania, […]

Yesterday Accordion Noir host “Accordion” Bruce Triggs went in for a minor scheduled surgical procedure, and was out of commission (by which I mean, madly Tweeting) during our usual broadcast hours. He put together this pre-recorded episode to air during his recuperation, and it went out over the airwaves last night! It is also available […]

Here it is, this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast! This week there are tunes from, well, all over, but with a little extra emphasis on Wisconsin and Quebec. If you haven’t already been notified by your Apple or Android podcast subscription (and further podcast directory listing is […]

Last night we caught a lovely little Geoff Berner concert at MacLean Park (filmed for streaming during our virtual Accordion Noir Festival next month), then headed home to await the 10 pm broadcast of this week’s CFRO episode of the weekly Accordion Noir radio program, which its host Bruce summed up as “a pretty good, […]