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Accordion Noir Radio

"Ruthlessly pursuing the idea that the accordion is just another instrument." Join the front-lines of the Accordion Revolution, broadcasting around the world almost every Wednesday since 2006. From Punk to Piazzolla (a variety of loud rock and roll, and a famous tango composer). The most unexpected variety of squeezebox music you"re likely to subscribe to today.

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-07-10: Getting...

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2024/07/12

Perhaps Bruce meant that the accordion music is emotionally heating up in anticipation of a key change? Hot weather in July is nothing extraordinary, but hey — here’s an AI-generated illustration to underscore the theme of accordion heat by burning real electricity to negatively impact climate change and generating genuine heat at a data centre […]

Accordion Noir radio playlsit 2024-07-03: Four out of...

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2024/07/04

Inspiration is where you find it. Your host Bruce recently visited the dentist, and consequently last night’s episode of our weekly broadcast includes a lot of squeezy songs about mouths and the teeth in (and sometimes not in) them! After this many years of weekly episodes, it’s rare for such a starkly fresh episode theme […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-26: Last...

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2024/06/26

Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great zydeco hero Clifton Chenier, so it lent itself to the occasion of an hour of accordion music, such as we air every Wednesday night on CFRO Co-Op Radio! Chenier only provides zydeco bookends to a set that wanders all over the place, musically, but it definitely informed […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-18: Juntacular...

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2024/06/20

It’s that time of week again to slip on your headphones and enjoy a blissful hour of sweet squeezebox music. The theme is… here we are in June, and Bruce wanted to play you some excellent squeezebox music, just like he does every week. It’s a good theme, that has gotten us through a lot! […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-12: Bruce’s...

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2024/06/13

Yesterday was Accordion Noir host Bruce’s birthday! But since he has the “big picture” perspective, he knows of many other important birthday and anniversaries in the accordion world also taking place at this time of year, and last night’s episode of our weekly broadcast engages all of them! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-05: Cycling and...

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2024/06/07

Because every DJ lives, to some extent, in the world, every week’s episode of Accordion Noir tells you a bit about what is going on in its host’s life that week. One thing going on is klezmer music, which is directly portable to music radio! Also in Bruce’s present zeitgeist is cycling, which … is […]

Accordion Noir 2024-05-29: Klezcadia Preview

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2024/05/30

The focus for this week’s edition of the Accordion Noir radio program is Victoria’s imminent Klezcadia festival, whose free virtual registration closes tonight! Basically, if you think you might be interested, you should go register, then return to listen to our podcast. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-15: Breaking...

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2024/05/27

A couple of weeks ago our regular host Bruce tried to seize the bull by the horns and broadcast an episode of our program from our home radio station, CFRO in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, mere blocks from his residence. He’s masterminded hundreds and hundreds of hours of broadcasts from the control board in its studios, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-22: Return 2...

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2024/05/23

Today is Accordion Patent Approval Day, celebrating Cyrill Demian’s successfully getting the paperwork back with a stamp of approval in 1829 enshrining him as the inventor of the accordion! That’s after Patent Filing Day on May 6th, when the clock really started ticking. (And then there is Friedrich Buschmann’s 1822 claim, substantiated by more of […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-08: Maybe We’ll...

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2024/05/09

Last night’s new, hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates the 195th anniversary of Cyrill Demian’s patenting of the first accordion! (Truly we are alive at a great time for accordion enthusiasts, with the instrument’s bicentennial only five years away.) In honour of the occasion, we played squeezy music from […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-01: May Day...

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2024/05/02

Our spree has been a little disrupted by what we might describe as the intrusion of real life and the outside world, but we’re back on our nonsense again: the first Friday of the month is still Bandcamp Friday, and so we still champion the opportunity it represents to get your music entertainment budget into […]

Accordion Noir 2024-04-24: Fifty Years Of Co-op Radio...

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2024/04/25

On April 21st, 1994, the Polka was proclaimed the official state dance of Wisconsin. From that departure point, your host Bruce Triggs took an exploration into the wacky world of the most hated [Bruce interjects, “Hey Rowan, I’d rather say ‘Misunderstood or forgotten.’ I don’t think too many smart people really hate polka do they?”] […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-17: Mary Beth...

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2024/04/19

After another little glitch, we’re back, with an hour-long episode celebrating the recent win of the Canadian Folk Music Award for Antigonish County’s own Mary Beth Carty, who we’ve been boosting here since the Myspace days (Squeegees!), plus more squeezy music along a similar vein. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-03: April And...

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2024/04/05

Nothing is easy for poor Bruce, and the well-oiled operation of his getting these episodes out into the world and online is really starting to run up against rather more friction than we are accustomed to. (Maybe we shouldn’t have skimped on that bellows replacement after the first 500 thousand miles! Really it was just […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-27: Back From...

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2024/04/05

Bruce’s technological issues we have recently reported on have only grown more acute as he attempts various remedies for his troubles, which have impacted our ability to get the program out to you, our faithful listeners, in a timely fashion. Here’s last week’s episode. If you know recent Apple hardware better than the bright bulbs […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-13: 17th...

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2024/03/14

Something happened last night, and this week’s episode of our Accordion Noir broadcast failed to go out over the air in time to celebrate the occasion your host Bruce had planned for: the observance of the 17th anniversary (!?) of the first congregation of the Vancouver Squeezebox Circle, which has continued meeting up for the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-06: Next Time...

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2024/03/08

Every week we share an hour (at least!) of accordion music in various styles representing different traditions from around the planet… and some of our episodes feature sub-themes that, sometimes retroactively, are surprisingly often informed by strange puns and wordplay. For this week’s program, host Bruce confides: This week’s theme is “Things with March in […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-28: It was Guy...

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2024/03/03

Our Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs is experiencing some kind of computer collapse (new computer, not old — so he can’t go forward and he can’t go back) in slow motion, making every episode he painstakingly splices together on it a kind of exquisite torment. (I would reach out to our listenership for help, but […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-21: Birthday...

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2024/02/25

Bruce maintains a peculiar kind of calendar, perhaps unique in the world, featuring the birthdays of many of the most renowned accordionists of all time. (Bruce thinks you can click this link to add his Accordion Holidays to your calendar.) That way, when it’s time for us to put together an episode of our weekly […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-14: Tony Cedras...

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2024/02/17

Anyone can celebrate Valentine’s day by putting together a program of accordion love songs. But it takes our rare galaxy brain thinking to observe the date by memorializing South Africa’s recently-deceased Tony Cedras by putting together an African diaspora squeezebox playlist. You won’t get this content anywhere else. (Present company excepted.) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]

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