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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-15: Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 2h

Apologies for the late promotion, but here's last week's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, celebrating my family vacation to Italy with a lot of Italian and romantic squeezebox music: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/a...

Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly I…

AccNoir–2025-10-15, Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance

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AccordionBruce @accordionbruce.bsky.social · 6d

This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!

Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗

And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚

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Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly I…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-08: October 8 1/2

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 14d

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a good mix of varied squeezebox tunes from different styles and different parts of the world, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...

(That’s the half-an-accordion in the title.) I don’t believe that last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has an underlying theme beyond “varie…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-01: First Bandcamp Friday Preview in October

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 21d

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast celebrated this month's installment of #BandcampFriday coming up tomorrow, featuring squeezy music for sale on that platform. It's up online for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/a...

Here we go again! When live music venues shut down at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we stepped up looking for ways to financially support our favorite (squeezebox) musicians deprived of perf…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-24: Way out West Where the East Begins

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 28d

Here's last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of the greatest squeezy music from around the globe, enjoyable as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/a...

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 …

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-17: For Those of Us on the Hoarder Spectrum

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Sep 19

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a collection of squeezy tunes Bruce whipped up to mark needing to shlep his possessions around to accommodate construction, is now online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/a...

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 ha…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-10: Clean Air Festival Weekend Weather

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Sep 12

Last night's episode of #CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, in promotion of this Sunday's #CleanAirFestival, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/a...

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, feat…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Sep 4

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up, celebrating Jo Ann Castle's birthday & tomorrow's #BandcampFriday, for shoppers who want the most bang for their online music purchase buck. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/a...

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 a…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-27: Co-op Radio 50/50 Raffle!

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 29

This past week's episode of CFRO's regular alt-accordion #AccordionNoir program, this time an invitation for British Columbia residents to enter its 50/50 draw fundraiser, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

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!) wit…

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 24

Lucy Lambert brought "Trumpet of Doom" as backup to this year's #accordionnoirfest! We're always glad to spread the doom around a little among other instruments.

A elegant woman plays piano accordion in a long gown, with a trumpeter joining her beneath the pavilion.

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 24

Geoff Berner is the reason we started the #AccordionNoirFestival so it's very fitting to have him out here at our sixteenth installment. In this picture he's rocking #PaulSimon's Bridge Over Troubled Water... in Yiddish!

On a hot summer's day, a man with a little black piano accordion plugged into a beefy sound board rocks out beneath a tent pavilion in a public park.

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-20: Accordion Noir Fest (Sunday Aug 24) Preview

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 22

To get a taste of its featured performers (Geoff Berner, Lucy Lambert & @nicheinterests.bsky.social) all you have to do is listen to the show via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

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 &#8212…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-20: Accordion Noir Fest (Sunday Aug 24) Preview

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 22

The final item in our catch-up spree, this past week's episode of #AccordionNoir promotes the Accordion Noir Festival we're presenting in Strathcona's Maclean Park this Sunday afternoon, from 2-5 pm.

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 &#8212…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-13: Marie Lachenal’s 177th Birthday & etc.

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 22

We got caught in a bit of a virtual logjam, so here's another new episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast from a week and a half ago: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

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 …

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-08-06: August, Oh August Bring Us Your Best

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 22

From the start of this month, here's our delayed tribute to the late, great #FlacoJimenez, an hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/a...

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 — bu…

ACCORDION NOIR FESTIVAL XVI – Sunday, August 24th

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 17

details at accordionnoirfest.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/a...

(At least) one more time, courtesy of our friends at Maclean Park Music, we are looking forward to sharing three more sets of solo squeezebox music with you, by donation, in a sunny, well-vent…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 17

One week from today, we present the sixteenth installment of the ACCORDION NOIR FESTIVAL, bringing alt-squeezebox to the masses. Aug 24, 2-5 pm, by donation at Vancouver's Maclean Park, hear Geoff Berner, Lucy Lambert and @nicheinterests.bsky.social rocking their boxes!

Before a giant translucent set of dark bellows, two men (one bald, one in a top hat) and a skeptical looking woman (also suitably hatted) don piano accordions and squeeze their hearts out.

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-23: New Moon as the Patents Fly

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Aug 1

Apologies for the delay, but here's last week's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast, featuring sixty minutes of the free-reediest music playlist you'll find anywhere in the world. You can enjoy it as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/a...

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…

Accordion Noir 2025-07-16: What Do You Call a Folk Fest with No Squeezebox?

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jul 17

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a thwarted Folk Festival squeezebox survey, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/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 c…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-09: July to Beat the Band

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jul 10

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as streaming digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/a...

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…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-07-02: Playing both ends against the middle

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jul 4

The latest hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a... and ready for your listening enjoyment!

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 …

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

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jun 26

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of #zydeco star #CliftonChenier. If you don't subscribe to our podcast, it's up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/a...

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 …

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-06-18: International Panic Juggling Day

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jun 19

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO 's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music, celebrating two seasonal themes of panic and juggling, is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...

(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 desig…

Accordion Noir 2025-06-11: It’s Cleveland Chenier’s 104th Birthday, and I’m 57 Tomorrow

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · Jun 12

Tonight's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast, a mix of birthday celebrations, memorials, and bellowing observance of resistance in LA, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/a...

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 week…