Accordion Noir Radio

At this time of year, Bruce’s mind turns to The War To End All Wars, and the oddly jaunty squeezebox music (you know, the kinds of tunes Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel pilot sings over a frosty rootbeer) that was contemporary to its dispassionate mulching of a generation’s youth… yielding the curatorial theme to this week’s episode […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with...

AccNoir–2026-11-18, Food Show PRA Script —————Accordion Noir’s Musical Foodie Harvest Season “Squeezebox Songs About Food” Special  Wednesday, November 18, from 10 to 11 PM ————— Accordion Noir Presents, The Co-op Radio Fall Fund Drive’s Musical Foodie, Harvest Season Special Episode, Featuring Squeezebox Songs about Food. Tune in to Co-op Radio, CFRO, 100.5 FM, in Vancouver, […] Accord...

This Friday is November’s Bandcamp Friday, which makes it a good day of the month for people to make music purchases, if they are interested in fully supporting working musicians with their music-buying money. And because we promote the enjoyment and production of accordion music, specifically, here is another episode where we share a sampling […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetp...

If you’ve ever felt that our weekly hour-long accordion broadcast is too fast and over too quickly, are you in luck! Here, in our offbeat Halloween tradition, is our sixth accordion drone special, with a special focus on very long, slow compositions that we don’t usually get a chance to air because… they would take […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full...

If you immerse yourself deeply enough in the world of the accordion, you can find esoteric connections to it in all times of year. So, here we are, in October. Should we play some Oktoberfest music on our accordion broadcast this week? Rookie mistake: in Munich Oktoberfest is mainly observed in September! Instead, this week’s […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full...

In keeping with the recent observance of Canadian Thanksgiving, this latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music has a focus on squeezy music for which its host, Bruce, is thankful. (Spoiler warning: that’s pretty much all of it!) If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted...

Here it is, another fresh episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast of alt-squeezy music in all styles! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (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 Internet Archive. If you haven’t...

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is again dedicated to the musicians of #AccordionBandcamp on #BandcampFriday, who tomorrow stand to gain handsomely if you decide to do your digital music purchases on that occasion. (If you’re not quite ready, there are two more coming up, one every month for the rest of […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Je...

The change of seasons has arrived and Bruce is feeling it in his bones… his squeeze bones! This latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox broadcast is primarily concerned with the crepuscular squeezings of music concerned with the autumn. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion N...

As the leaves change colour, Bruce’s thoughts turn to recess bells and paper bag lunches and after-school rehearsals in band rooms with photocopied sheet music on stencilled music stands. Yes, indeed, he has taken September and the return of our colleague Natasha Enquist to grad school as an opportunity to interview her and musically visit […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack...

As the turn of the seasons marches on, this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast covers Labour Day lightly before telegraphing an upcoming Back to (accordion) School special Bruce is working on. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability ye...

We had some challenges getting our last Accordion Bandcamp promo online in time for Bandcamp Friday, but we are prepared for the one currently in effect, today! This episode of our program focuses on the output of accordionists who have music for sale on Bandcamp and who can get a generous cut of your electronic […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every...

From the looks of the playlist (search me, the episode title is an enigma wrapped in a riddle), Bruce has taken the recent death of Dolly Parton as an excuse to air an all-women episode of our weekly alt-accordion program. Any excuse to do that is always a good one! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show not...

It might be a little obvious, cliched if you will, for us to promote this weekend’s planned installment of our Accordion Noir Festival as the theme for this week’s episode of the Accordion Noir radio show. (Just as well: you can’t tell it to look out the window in the hot blue sky today, but […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every ep...

They’re not appearing entirely, uh, sequentially, but here it is, the last of our run of missing recent episodes of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcasts. This one dates to the very end of this past July just a couple of weeks ago, so if you’re not fully on top of things you may […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show note...

Greetings, everyone! Bruce has recently transitioned back to DJing episodes of our weekly alt-squeezebox radio broadcast live from the CFRO studios after many years of bedroom prerecords prompted by Covid-19 closures. This transition has been accompanied by hiccups in actually getting our hands on a digital copy of what just went out over the air, […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpac...

Man makes plans and the radio gods refuse to relinquish the hour of recorded audio from the logger. Bruce initially hoped for this episode of Accordion Noir to be a just-in-time accordion music buyer’s guide for the then-upcoming Bandcamp Friday on August 7th. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get our hands on the recording until today, August […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpa...

There’s a lot going on in this week’s episode of Accordion Noir — Bruce is back live on the air and apparently free-associating currents of themes as he navigates his way through his music collection. Is this episode about the current spate of warm weather, the recent folk music festival, or the discovery that the […] Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full...

Inspiration comes from curious observations, and this week Bruce had one of the more curious, perceiving a numerical sequence in the date.  Consequently all of the musical selections also involve numbers and numerals… something to dwell on while you contemplate the 120 buttons on the Stradella side of your piano accordion! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old […]

This year, for Canada Day, Bruce presented a slate of accordion tunes made by Canadian accordionists, past and present. Simple and direct! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (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&#16...

Greetings and welcome to another episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast! Bruce is in a summery mood (a mid one?) so that has informed this week’s selection of squeezy songs for your listening enjoyment.  If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to...

Northern Ireland is still in the news for the wrong reasons, and the troubles going on there apparently motivate Bruce to defiantly put a lot African accordion music into this week’s radio playlist. He suggests some sub-themes going on in this week’s song selection and the commentary between songs include Régis Gizavo’s birthday and Iona […]

Happy birthday to Bruce! He takes this opportunity to play whatever music he likes on his radio program, which of course he does every week anyway. This time around, the song selection is also informed by his takes on current world events, which again is somewhat of a regular occurrence. But the point is… enjoy […]

This week, Bruce got out of his apartment and into the CFRO studios two blocks away, where he hadn’t broadcast an episode of Accordion Noir live since the Covid-19 pandemic. Many things have changed, but the music is still all very squeezy! Broadcasting live is a more spontaneous experience, and we think you’ll be able […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently passed. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listeni...