We survived this year’s Accordion Noir Festival last week and now it’s time for us to stump for our parent radio station’s 50/50 raffle fundraiser (BC residents only, please!) with a set of squeezy tunes about luck and good fortune. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir […]

It’s the most accordionic time of the year! Our plucky little Accordion Noir Festival of the squeezy arts started as a Geoff Berner concert and darned if we won’t go out that way — hopefully many years from now. In the meantime, we are presenting a bill of three solo squeezy performers as part of […]

Squeezeboxes have been around for so long — nearly 200 years now! — that as a consequence of their long illustrious history, virtually every day on the calendar is the birthday of some notable related musician or another. On the occasion of the air date of this episode of our weekly alt-accordion program, that lucky […]

Due to technical issues, we haven’t been able to upload any new episodes of our weekly hour-long alt-accordion broadcast since the great Flaco Jimenez died at the end of last month — but now we can, so here it is, the first recording in our backlog which is a memorial tribute to his work. If […]

There were speed bumps over at our host, delaying our sharing of last week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio for an entire week… but the good news is that here it is, it arrived, better late than never!  (The accordion world is so mired in the ’60s, I don’t see that a delay of a […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast was intended to showcase and highlight squeezy music at the upcoming Vancouver Folk Music Festival, but Bruce couldn’t find any in the program this year! Well, he has rummaged through VFMF highlights and interviews from years past and found squeezy performers at other folk music […]

The world is feeling heavy this week, and here we are, holding up a funhouse mirror to it that only returns accordion tunes. It’s a strange beat, but after nearly twenty years, we can’t stop now! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you […]

The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast is a curious exploration of two extremes, energy-wise, starting with 40 minutes of upbeat dance music and ending with a very long, meditative exercise in deep listening.  It makes for effective contrast! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]

Bruce played it pretty straight last night in programming the centenary celebration of zydeco popularizer Clifton Chenier. It’s not 100% Clifton but it’s pretty close! If your Apple or Android (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 […]

(More Panic! than juggling, but had I gone the other way Felovis would have been a shoe-in.) Bruce is never afraid to spontaneously curate an episode on a capricious theme someone has quietly designated in a calendar, unknown to the general public. This episode of our weekly accordion music program coincided with the general seasonal […]