10 episodes
Accordion Noir Radio Bruce Triggs & Rowan Lipkovits
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4.9 • 14 Ratings
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"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.
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-08: Maybe We’ll Just be Moving On
Last night’s new, hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir program celebrates the 195th anniversary of Cyrill Demian’s patenting of the first accordion! (Truly we are alive at a great time for accordion enthusiasts, with the instrument’s bicentennial only five years away.) In honour of the occasion, we played squeezy music from […]
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-01: May Day Bandcamp-Out
Our spree has been a little disrupted by what we might describe as the intrusion of real life and the outside world, but we’re back on our nonsense again: the first Friday of the month is still Bandcamp Friday, and so we still champion the opportunity it represents to get your music entertainment budget into […]
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Accordion Noir 2024-04-24: Fifty Years Of Co-op Radio & 30 Years of Wisconsin Polka!
On April 21st, 1994, the Polka was proclaimed the official state dance of Wisconsin. From that departure point, your host Bruce Triggs took an exploration into the wacky world of the most hated popular and fun dance fad that’s been going strong for nearly two centuries, since the 1830s! [Bruce interjects, “Whoa Rowan, I’d say […]
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-17: Mary Beth Carty award show & Co-op Radio Fund Drive
After another little glitch, we’re back, with an hour-long episode celebrating the recent win of the Canadian Folk Music Award for Antigonish County’s own Mary Beth Carty, who we’ve been boosting here since the Myspace days (Squeegees!), plus more squeezy music along a similar vein. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted […]
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-04-03: April And Another Thing
Nothing is easy for poor Bruce, and the well-oiled operation of his getting these episodes out into the world and online is really starting to run up against rather more friction than we are accustomed to. (Maybe we shouldn’t have skimped on that bellows replacement after the first 500 thousand miles! Really it was just […]
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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-27: Back From Beyond (If This Works)
Bruce’s technological issues we have recently reported on have only grown more acute as he attempts various remedies for his troubles, which have impacted our ability to get the program out to you, our faithful listeners, in a timely fashion. Here’s last week’s episode. If you know recent Apple hardware better than the bright bulbs […]
Customer Reviews
I love accordion, and...
I LOVE this show! Great tunes showing just what this versatile instrument can do. Music from traditional to punk! Yes!
A rare find
I like that there exists a podcast of accordion music, a lot what he plays is new and interesting if not enjoyable. But I wish he didn’t talk so much and didn’t proselytize.