Almost a year after our nearly-four-hour episode The Night The Drone Stood Still, in conjunction with our neighbours at the Soundscape program, Bruce decided it was time to revisit that well, whose level had hardly gone down after having a mere 240 minutes skimmed off of it. Tonight’s sequel features a further three hours from […]

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Accordion Noir 2021-10-20: The Return of the Living Drone (Pre-Fund Drive Special)

Yesterday’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is out! I see French and Spanish in the titles of the songs we aired, and I see tunes clearly telegraphed as belonging to the klezmer and celtic genres… in short, it’s another brilliant mix of our trademark international melange! (Not at all the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-10-13: Wednesday the 13th

The music programming of last night’s episode of Accordion Noir had no rhyme or reason Don’t take it up with me, Bruce picked the songs and he himself described the selection as “random”. Of course, that uncertainty still occurred within certain parameters…  It remains a set of great squeezebox tunes representing numerous disparate musical traditions […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-10-06: Random October Noir

Bruce is at it again: there is an injustice going on somewhere in the world (well, in our backyard), and even though his platform is optimised for delivering accordion music, specifically, he is commandeering it to share his strong and worthwhile feelings on the matter with a wider audience.  The first few songs in tonight’s […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-29: Civil-Disobedience in Canada, and Bandcamp Friday! 

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, sharing the greatest alt-squeezebox tunes in history from all over the world! Greetings to our contingent of new listeners from the Underground BBS Discord!  Our regular DJ Bruce (Bruce, do you have an underground club DJ name? Mine […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-22: Oh September￼

Looking over the playlist of this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio, I can perceive no consistent theme other than our standard “a mix of great songs representing different musical traditions from different parts of the world” — a thematic failure of the imagination of sorts, but one whose ends still justify its means. But […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-15: “Music With Personality” (And don’t cut down 1,000 year old trees)

Greetings, friends! We’ve been keeping it low-key, to suppress attendance (these are strange times!), but we do want to give everyone a chance to catch… the 14th annual Accordion Noir Festival! In the interest of public health, it’s being conducted outdoors, as part of the Maclean Park Music series, the afternoon of Saturday, September 11th, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-08: Noir Fest Preview, Hurricanes and Earthquakes

Here we are again, friends — it’s a new month, and with it the first Friday of that month, and with it… well, you already know how we like to celebrate Bandcamp Friday over in these parts. Here’s a chance for us to share music with you available for sale to benefit inadequately gigging squeezebox […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-09-01: Bandcamp Friday Doesn’t Go On Vacation!

The week of KlezKanada workshops is still underway, and the subject of last week’s episode of our weekly broadcast is, again, the subject of this week’s also! If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital streaming audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-08-25: KlezKanada and Then Some

The theme to this week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is klezmer music, in honour of the upcoming virtual KlezKanada workshops and festivities ahead Aug 23-29. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as streaming digital audio courtesy […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-08-18: KlezKanada preview

It’s hard to know how the pandemic chips are going to fall on a month to month basis. Last summer the numbers were relatively down and there was a window of opportunity for life to be lived in some degree of normalcy, where by “normalcy” we mean “you can enjoy your first live music performances […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-08-21: Teapot in the Tuba and Friends

Bandcamp is at it again! Through much of 2020, they helped locked-down gigging musicians by — one day a month — waiving their cut of proceeds from online music sales through their storefront. They did some deep soul-searching with their accountants in 2021 and the program was suspended, but this month at least, it’s back. […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-08-04: Artist-Support Bandcamp Not-Quite-Friday!

The heat is returning. Heavens preserve us! It’s hot enough without having to layer heat on heat with hot jazz. Couldn’t we have some cool jazz? Even luke-warm jazz, if icy jazz isn’t available. You don’t want the accordions to get too hot, or the beeswax in their reed banks will melt and then your […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-07-28: Not Quite Hot Jazz

I’m far enough into listening to this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long “Accordion Noir” radio program, a couple of songs in, that I’ve just heard host Bruce Triggs describe this installment of the program as “a varied show of random stuff”, a default suspicion I assume to be informing any given […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-07-21: Something About Something

Here we are, another fresh new episode of CFRO Co-op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast. Just what is Bruce getting at here? I can discern no particular subtext through either the name he has given this program nor the selection of songs played in it, which follow a friendly and familiar formula of representing […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2021-07-14: What Have We Herd

"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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