Accordion Noir

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a Canada Day celebration of Canadian accordionists, is up for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/

This week's hour-long episode of CFRO's #AccordionNoir broadcast, a BandcampFriday special and promotion for le Vent du Nord playing here in Vancouver tomorrow night, is up online available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-04-29-bandcamp-friday-le-vent-du-nord-more/

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a showcase of silly squeezebox, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/accordion-noir-2026-04-01-april-fish-day/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast imagines what an episode of our program might have sounded like if we had been on the schedule when the station got started 52 years ago in 1974. You can hear it via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-04-15-co-op-radios-fifty-second-birthday-time-machine/

No one could have ever anticipated its strange longevity, but last night Accordion Noir somehow dropped its thousandth episode, a big nostalgic get-together with @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social , @nicheinterests@theha.us and @Geoffberner@zeroes.ca looking back at all the good times and squeezing out a few tunes. You can enjoy listening to it via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-02-04-accordion-noirs-1000th-episode-with-geoff-berner/

Apologies for the delay, but here's the most recent episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, now online for your listening enjoyment and convenience: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/accordion-noir-2026-03-18-frog-millhouse-joe-derrane-and-then-some/

In celebration of the birthday of the late, great Ritchie Valens, last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast was a tour of squeezy Latin music. You can enjoy listening to it via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-05-13-richie-valens-birthday/

Apologies for the delay, but this week's episode of #CFRO 's #AccordionNoir broadcast of squeezy tunes, our first live broadcast since 2020, is finally online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-06-03-june-it-is-acaiman-in-return-to-live-djing/

Last night's episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of the legacy of the Beer Barrel Polka, is now up online and available for your online listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-04-08-beer-barrel-wednesday/

Last night's squeezy episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-01-28-january-closeout-sale/

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-02-18-pee-wee-kings-sis-cunninghams-tropical-birthdays/

Tonight's episode of #CFRO weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of the number three (years until the accordion's bicentennial) is up online (early!) and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-05-05-three-years-till-the-bicentennial/

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your streaming enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-06-17-mid-june-check-in/

This week's episode of CFRO's #AccordionNoir broadcast -- celebrating the close birthdays of Ardoin, Welk, Piazzolla and Jimenez -- is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-03-11-birthday-conjunction-and-then-some/

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir episode of squeezy music is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-06-10-bruce-day-for-a-better-world-with-surprises/ ... happy birthday to host Bruce Triggs!

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently passed. You can listen to it as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-05-27-fair-winds-fallowing-seas-capt-fred/

Accordion Noir missed our own birthday and threw a squeezy party on the radio after the fact to make up for it. You can tune in to the festivities in this week's episode via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-12-10-accordion-noirs-missed-birthday-blues/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, an hour of squeezy music about hearts, their distress and (hopefully) mending is up online and can be enjoyed as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-05-20-hearts-in-transit/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a #BandcampFriday preview featuring #marching music for the start of the month of March, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-03-04-march-back-to-bandcamp-friday/

Last night's episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a showcase of #accordion works and recordings entering the #PublicDomain in 2026, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-12-31-public-domain-day-requires-a-law-degree/
#PublicDomainDay 🪗

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast -- the first episode of our second thousand -- is up online for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-02-11-welcome-to-our-1001th-episode/

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a spotlight on squeezy tunes available for sale at this Friday's #BandcampFriday, is up online and ready for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-12-03-last-bandcamp-friday-before-new-years/

Here's last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, celebrating the culture, traditions and (ahem) self-determination of Greenland: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-01-21-greenland-for-greenlanders/

We may have buried a lede in the latest podcast repost of our weekly #AccordionNoir radio broadcast, but now that we figured out that Google Podcasts rode into the sunset about 5 months ago, our program has now been made available on YouTube (via https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--cl7tJA3uVoz7wJyGASJg) and iHeartRadio (via https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-accordion-noir-radio-304579808/)

If there are any other podcast trackers we should registered under (Spotify is out, Amazon/Audible is weighing over our application), please let us know. Thanks from Bruce & Rowan!

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a meditation on solidarity and unity in divisive times, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-01-07-immigrants-rights-and-wrongs/

Season's greetings! Last night's hour-long #ChristmasEve episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your seasonal listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-12-24-some-reindeer-are-knocking-on-our-chimney/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-03-25-back-to-school-with-natasha/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a winter holiday showcase with a focus this week on Chanukah, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-12-17-a-few-chanukah-tunes-and-others-in-the-times-of-stormy-weather/

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, a rhapsody on the end of February and the life of Guy Klucevsek, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-02-24-last-wednesday-in-this-february/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of songs whose names begin with the word "Big", is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-11-05-alphabetical-playlist-for-co-op-radios-fall-membership-drive-starting-with-big/

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a celebration of several important accordionic January birthdays, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-01-14-johnny-grande-day-new-music-more-birthdays/

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir alt-squeezebox broadcast, this one with a theme difficult to succinctly describe on social media, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-11-26-whatever-we-play-tonight/

Last week's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is (finally) up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-11-19-tommy-dorseys-birthday/

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of squeezy music on #RemembranceDay themes is up online and available your your listening convenience: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-11-12-november-remembers/