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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-09-02: This Year’s Bandcamp Friday in September!
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 …
![Page 210 from my Accordion Revolution:
“An Ursuline convent school may have purchased the very first accordion in Canada in 1843. We know this because the nuns kept the receipts, and several of these delicate instruments survive in the convent museum. The Ursulines also had various accordions repaired in Quebec City at the head of the St. Lawrence River, source for European imports in Canada. These French-style instruments would have featured in bourgeois and upper-class parlors in Quebec, but were out of reach of most people.
In the later 1800s, more affordable German-style accordions and Anglo-German concertinas became available through the Eaton and Montgomery Ward catalogs. Then, in 1895, Odilon Gagné began producing the first Canadian-built German-style ten-button accordions in Quebec. He crafted every part himself, from the reeds to the bellows and buttons. His sons carried on the business and passed on the skills to [his sons].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4x3q3m3ktdykipglxxr3vfh/bafkreibhuwizwe3hkputlpgbinrunuwevsugh3mwmhrzdvdklu3e3gj6gi)
