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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rest in Power to #AndreaWarner, an astute local expert in popular music history, whose beat between newspapers, books, radio & podcasts somehow also had her boosting our Accordion Noir fest to the wider public on several occasions. Your important work won't be forgotten! www.cbc.ca/music/andrea...

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Saying goodbye to Andrea Warner | CBC Music

We lost one of the very best on Sept. 27.

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast catches up with our colleague Natasha Enquist, off to grad school, and visits September "back to school" themes... through the evergreen medium of squeezebox music. You can hear it via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-09-16: Back to School with Miss Natasha Enquist

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…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Bandcamp Friday! It's today. Go out there and buy some accordion music there and the performers will actually be getting most of the purchase price! It's also the theme of this week's episode of Accordion Noir, a buying guide if you like: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/a...

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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 …

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you missed @accordionbruce.bsky.social 's swell #AccordionNoir swag at the infotable at this afternoon's festival, you can always order it from him via www.etsy.com/shop/Accordi... the rest of the year!

On a folding table outside a spread is laid on a colourful tablecloth including stickers and buttons and postcards celebrating the weird world of the accordion.

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just when you think the festival is over, suddenly there's Susan Gerofsky bringing the instant acoustic afterparty, busting out McGarrigle Sisters songs on the button box!

A woman sits on a stool outside in a park, playing a button accordion with a certain flair.

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Queen Bees were the closing act at this year's Accordion Noir Festival, and here they are blasting the roof off the park with Night Train!

Two women, one on piano accordion and one on electric bass, play the blues in the park

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The flavourful filling in today's squeezebox sandwich, @geoffberner.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy takes the stage with his longtime klezmic comrade DD and Ursula for a set almost entirely sung in Yiddish!

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A light drizzle has returned but the Accordion Noir Festival is indomitable! The Vancouver Accordion Orchestra would not be dissuaded from playing their inaugural performance, opening with Nino Rota's theme from Amarcord. An auspicious beginning!

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Despite thunderstorms last night, the sky is dry & we hope the ground will follow - bring a folding chair! This afternoon's Accordion Noir Festival goes forward starting at 2 pm! Here's a fresh interview with our middle performer, @geoffberner.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy www.straight.com/music/geoff-...

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Geoff Berner: Blatant propaganda in Yiddish

"It's one of the great insult languages for sure."

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For immediate release: the 17th Accordion Noir Festival, at Vancouver's MacLean Park Sunday, Aug 23rd! Continuing its recent incarnation at the Strathcona park, the long-running East Van alt-roots music festival is putting on another by-donation outdoor concert from 2-5 pm later this month.

(Around a red papier mache piano accordion are words proclaiming the whos, whats, whens and wheres of a concert: Sunday Aug 23, 2-5 pm, MacLean Park, Accordion Noir Festival XVII featuring the Vancouver Accordion Orchestra, Geoff Berner and the Queen Bees. By donation.)

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Last month Rowan and Bruce shared 46 recordings, "lost" episodes of #AccordionNoir radio that broadcast over the airwaves but were never podcasted. If you missed them then, we have just served up some 41 hours of new-to-you squeezy content as digital audio...

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Accordion Noir radio back catalogue update: all caught up!

Over the past three weeks we’ve been doing a little cleanup in our filing system, and it revealed a number of important recordings from our program’s nearly-20-year history that had the…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, a spotlight on the squeezing to look forward to at the upcoming Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-15: Le Déferlance and Yagódy at the Folk Fest

The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast shines the spotlight on accordionic performances coming up at this year’s installment of the long-running Van…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The latest episode of CFRO's weekly alt-squeezebox radio broasdcast, #AccordionNoir, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/a... ... like many, it looks for significance in numerical values.

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-08: Six, Seven, Eight

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 n…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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 accordionuprising.wordpress.com

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Accordion Uprising

Because "Renaissance" is too hard to spell.

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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 accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-27: Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred

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 pa…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Tonight's episode of #CFRO 's 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 accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-05: Three Years ‘Till The Bicentennial

Because we are three years away from the bicentennial of Cyrill Demian’s patenting of the accordion, for this episode, observing this year’s “Accordion Day” (when you’…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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 accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-04-29: Bandcamp Friday, Le Vent du Nord & More

Bandcamp Friday is upon us once again, and we like to take the opportunity to dip into Bandcamp’s catalogue of musical offerings and make curated recommendation of squeezy working musicians y…

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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 accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-04-15: Co-op Radio’s Fifty-Second Birthday Time Machine

As we approach our parent radio station’s 52nd birthday, Bruce set his mind to wandering and contemplated what our program might have sounded like had it begun airing in that august year of 1…

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Damn, they've seen through our plan @accordionnoir.bsky.social @accordionbruce.bsky.social

'accordions is a Trojan horse for the complete dismantling of capitalism'

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Accordion Noir @accordionnoir.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Who could have ever anticipated its longevity? Last night #AccordionNoir dropped its 1000th episode, a nostalgic get-together with Bruce, Rowan & Geoff Berner looking back at all the good times . You can enjoy listening to it via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a...

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-02-04: Accordion Noir’s 1,000th Episode, with Geoff Berner

Seems like our 500th episode extravaganza with Geoff Berner and Dawn Zoe was just yesterday, but somehow this week was a thousand weeks since our first broadcast back at the start of December 2006,…

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