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Accordion Noir Radio
"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. Accordion Noir Radio is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/
Episodes
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Accordion Noir 2026-11-18: Food Show PRA
AccNoir–2026-11-18, Food Show PRA Script ————— Accordion Noir’s Musical Foodie Harvest Season “Squeezebox Songs About Food” Special Wednesday, November 18…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-11-04: November Bandcamper Van Friday Preview
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-10-28: Drone Show VI – The Bellows Embrace
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-10-21: Weird, Jazzy, Country, Zydeco, Birthdays of October
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-10-14: Thunksgivin’ for the Squeezboxin’
In keeping with the recent observance of Canadian Thanksgiving, this latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music has…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-10-07: So Canada My Canada
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…
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Accordion Noir 2026-09-30: Bandcamp Friday of the Lost Accordion
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast is again dedicated to the musicians of #AccordionBandcamp on #BandcampFriday, who…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-09-23: Equinoxixox
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…
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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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-09-09: Back to Labour Days
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…
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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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-08-26: Adues to Accordion August
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-08-19: Nitty Gritty Titaníque
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-29: Last Call For July
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-08-12: August the Augmented
Greetings, everyone! Bruce has recently transitioned back to DJing episodes of our weekly alt-squeezebox radio broadcast live from the CFRO studios after many…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-08-05: Bandcamp Friday for What it’s Worth
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-15: Wednesday Comes Forth in July
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…
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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…
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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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-01: Canada Day Oh!
This year, for Canada Day, Bruce presented a slate of accordion tunes made by Canadian accordionists, past and present. Simple and direct! If…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-06-24: Still Mostly Midsummarizing
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-06-17: Mid-June Check-In
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-06-10: Bruce Day for A Better World with Surprises!
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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-06-03: June it is a’Caiman In (Return to Live DJ’ing)
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…
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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…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-20: Hearts in Transit
This week your host Bruce had a little trouble with his heart, so of course he made it the theme for this week’s radio program. (Of all his organs that…
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-13: Richie Valens’ Birthday
Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great Ritchie Valens, and Bruce took the opportunity to take us on a whirlwind audio tour of squeezy Latin music…
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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…
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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…