“Pandemic Days #3” by Gabriel Navar Fresh from the airwaves, here’s tonight’s episode of Accordion Noir radio, an hour of the most pertinent alt-accordion music that the world’s most pre-eminent scholar of the genre can curate.  These are interesting times we’re living in, and Bruce is rising to the occasion, programming a set dedicated […]

painting by Kelly Latimore This week’s episode of Accordion Noir is, well, the standard heady melange of this and that, where by “this” and “that” we mean another hour of the best alt-accordion music we can rustle up from all corners of the planet, from different eras and in our standard wide variety of […]

Direct from Bruce’s study (and, later tonight, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio), here’s this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio, broadcasting at 100.5 fm in Vancouver, BC every Wednesday night from 10-11 pm. This time, however, our Apple and Android podcast subscribers get the drop on radio listeners, enjoying a chance to listen to our regular […]

Here we are, and somehow it is the middle of May. Yow! Time flies when you’re under quarantine! If you didn’t already hear about it from podcast notifications on your Apple or Android devices, here’s this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program, featuring alt-accordion music in all styles from every part of the […]

Cinco de Mayo can be framed as a big accordion holiday (with a big asterisk) but the following day, May 6th, marks the day Cyrill Demian patented the first accordion in 1829… making it the biggest accordion holiday of them all! Naturally we celebrate it scrupulously (and have been counting down to May 6, 2029 […]

Last month Bruce hitched his wagon to Bandcamp, which had an “all the proceeds go to the artists” weekend to benefit the hard working touring musicians who were no longer able to tour. They’re doing it again, so he got another program together on very short notice of well worthwhile accordionic acts selling music online […]

AccNoir-2020-04-22, Earth Dazed and Fund Raised Wetlands Project – Froggies! (9:50 PM) – (2017) – Saturna Island, British Columbia, Canada – http://wetlandproject.com Three very cute kids playing Merengue Típico – Dedicated to folks in New York – (2020) – Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico – https://www.facebook.com/franklin.guerrero.9028/videos/1000427140477278/ Pauliina Lerche – Kaisan Katrilli – Malanja (2006) – […]

Greetings everyone and welcome to another fresh episode of Accordion Noir radio, still steaming straight from Bruce’s home studio! (Indeed, I still have a couple of minutes to beat the radio to the punch and publish it online first!) This week we kick off this year’s Spring Member Drive for our parent station CFRO Co-op […]

Last week’s episode of Accordion Noir featured some music by the ailing songwriter John Prine, and last night we got the bad news that his condition had resolved. While this provides an excellent excuse to revisit his vast catalogue of essential songs, we’d really rather not have the excuse. You can listen to this week’s […]

Just when you think you’ve successfully adapted to the shifting circumstances, they shift again, and you remain on uneasy footing. We thought we got a head-start on the isolation by pre-recording our weekly episodes of Accordion Noir radio before our radio station shut down live broadcasts, but then a turbulent week at the Internet Archive […]