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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 2025-09-24: Way out...

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2025/09/25

Relax, everybody! The world, well, the world is still in turmoil but at least we can testify that it is full of accordion music, and if you can take a moment to listen to some of it you might have a chance to enjoy a moment of cosmic connection and unity with your fellow humanity, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-17: For Those...

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2025/09/19

Hello, everyone! Our host Bruce was required to rearrange the contents of his apartment this week, yielding this curious playlist of squeezy tunes about moving both stuff and things. On the one hand, accordions are heavy. (On the bright side, Bruce doesn’t have a Cordovox collection instead!) If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-10: Clean Air...

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2025/09/12

This year’s installment of the Clean Air Festival is coming up fast (this Sunday!), and this latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates it in a thematic way, featuring all breezy songs that have to do with blowing wind and gasping breath and everything in between. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann...

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2025/09/04

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music available on Bandcamp — which is hosting another “Bandcamp Friday” tomorrow, waiving most of their fee for music purchases made on that day, passing the windfall along to […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-27: Co-op Radio...

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2025/08/29

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-20: Accordion...

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2025/08/22

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-13: Marie...

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2025/08/22

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-06: August, Oh...

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2025/08/22

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-23: New Moon as...

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2025/07/31

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 […]

Accordion Noir 2025-07-16: What Do You Call a Folk...

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2025/07/17

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-09: July to...

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2025/07/10

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-02: Playing...

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2025/07/04

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 […]

Accordion Noir 2025-06-25: Clifton Chenier’s 100th...

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2025/06/26

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-06-18:...

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2025/06/19

(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 […]

Accordion Noir 2025-06-11: It’s Cleveland Chenier’s...

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2025/06/12

You never have to wonder whether we live in the world, because every week things take place in the world and often they directly or indirectly inform the theme of the content we feature on our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. If our programming ever stops being informed by what’s taking place on Planet Earth that week, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-28: Guy...

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2025/06/06

There are simply no words. If our alt-accordion project of the past 20 years could be said to have a guiding saint, Guy Klucevsek would be it, a man with the chops to play anything and with the musical inclination to follow where those chops led him — everywhere! The first time we were called […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-28: Canadian as...

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2025/05/29

We’re about a month and change off from our national holiday here in the Great White North, and yet for reasons known only to himself (still haven’t had a chance to survey the scope of the loss from Guy Klucevsek’s recent death) Bruce has opted to make this week’s program of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-21: Rob Reich...

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2025/05/22

The clouds have parted, the sun is shining and Bruce is feeling under the weather and Rob Reich, famously of the Tin Hat Trio among other ensembles, has died. Sometimes springtime is callous like that. But we baked in a little memorial tribute to him in this week’s episode of our regular broadcast, plus nods […]

Accordion Noir 2025-05-14: Mid-May in the Garden of...

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2025/05/16

Greetings, folks, here’s the latest episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, sharing the greatest squeezebox music to be found anywhere… this week, shining the spotlight very narrowly on songs containing the words “May”, “Midnight” or “Garden” in them. Why? I guess sometimes your host Bruce gives a program its title as an afterthought, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-05-07: May the...

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2025/05/08

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away… I jest, there is no Star Wars connection to last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast. It’s just our standard good, clean mix of squeezebox musics in a wide variety of styles from all over the world! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly […]

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