There are some dates and weeks that are loaded with birthdays and anniversaries for people and events that loom large in accordion history, and this week is one of them, which lends itself neatly to a musical playlist. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s […]

I can’t put it better than Bruce did in his words below, so I’ll leave it to him to elaborate on last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, on themes of solidarity and unity in times of great division. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]

With every year that passes, more and more of our cultural heritage passes from private ownership into the public realm, where anyone can use or enjoy it without being required to pay fees — typically because the creators have been dead and the creations now forgotten for many decades hence. But in a world of […]

If you’re going to be playing an hour of music on Christmas Eve, you need to either be explicitly embracing or rejecting the occasion. In this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, Bruce kind of does both at the same time — the show is all Christmas music, but that Christmas music includes a lot of […]

We’re getting into winter holiday season, and first up is Chanukah, a primary focus in this week’s episode of our weekly hour-long all-accordion broadcast. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. […]

Some years, we make a big deal out of the anniversary of our radio program. (The first few years we would reconvene at our original broadcast time from 2-3 am for an hour of not-ready-for-prime-time pirate radio.) Other years, such as this one, it just quietly tries to slip past us. (Tries. It’s hard for […]

One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week on Dec 5th, your chance to purchase accordion music from accordionic recording artists and have the lion’s share of the digital payments actually reach said artists! Happy holidays all around! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain […]

Bruce is getting a little postmodern with these programs: he has taken an episode of our program first aired a bit over eighteen years ago, located all of the songs included in it in his music collection, and has offset every song by one in the sequence of his overall collection. Why? You can’t interrogate […]

If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for the Fall membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of […]

War: what is it good for? If I told you “great accordion music”, you wouldn’t believe me, but now you don’t have to. Either way, I’d happily do away with accordion in a heartbeat if it also brought an end to war, but sadly it doesn’t work that way. In any case, Bruce found himself […]