VANCOUVER'S CO-OP RADIO 100.5 FM CELEBRATING 50 YEARS NOV 19 8 to 11 pm, Wise Hall lounge By Donation 19+, EVERYONE WELCOME BEASTIE, PATRICK KAO ENSEMBLE, FELONIOUS PUNK, ROWAN of ACCORDION NOIR, ENRICO RENZ, DANIEL DEORKSEN & MARIA GABRIELLE Join us in celebrating 50 years of Community radio in Vancouver. Vancouver Co-op Radio has been providing Vancouver with grassroots media, diverse first of its kind content and amazing programming since its founding in 1975. Supporting and celebrating this local community institution is more important than ever as we face an onslaught from corporate media and foreign controlled social media platforms. Help us protect Vancouver's Co-op Radio by coming out to celebrate 50 years.

Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-06-18: International Panic Juggling Day (More Panic! than juggling, but had I gone the other way Felovis would have been a shoe-in.) Bruce is never afraid to spontaneously curate an episode on a capricious theme someone has quietly desig…

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO 's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music, celebrating two seasonal themes of panic and juggling, is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...

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We have a special all vinyl 90s/Y2K hard house/house mix by DJ and producer Walter Wack.

Tune in on CFRO 100.5 fm or coopradio.org at 11pm (PDT).

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Accordion Noir radio playlist 2014-11-26: Rowan Holds Down What hubris — you can’t hold an accordion down! So it turns out that ten years ago, the regular Accordion Noir radio host Bruce was unavailable some Wednesday night, so his backup host …

From ten years ago, here's an episode of our weekly #CFRO #AccordionNoir radio broadcast that, for whatever reason, never made its way online until now. You can enjoy listening to it via: accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2014-11-19: Rowan At The Helm What exactly was Bruce up to in November ten years ago? I really don’t recall, but it involved my needing to come in and guest-host a bunch of episodes of our weekly alt-squeezebox broadcast …

From 10 years ago, here's another archival episode of #CFRO Co-Op #CommunityRadio 's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir music broadcast that, for some reason, was never shared at that time for our podcast subscribers.
Enjoy listening to it online via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2014-11-12: Accordion Electorate Greetings, accordion friends! Our hosts at the Internet Archive have not yet fully recovered from a heinous hack a while back, so we have no further recent episodes of our weekly alt-accordion broa…

From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of our weekly hour-long #CFRO Co-op Community Radio broadcast of alt-#accordion music, on no particular theme. You can now hear it again (or for the first time, if you missed it then!) as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2014-10-01: So Much New Music “New Music” can of course mean a lot of different things. Sometimes it represents pushing outwards at the boundaries of where what you envision as music entails, expanding the conceptio…

Here's an episode of our weekly hour-long #CFRO broadcast of #AccordionNoir #radio that aired a decade ago this week -- but for some reason, never went out to our #podcast subscribers. Listen to it now, available for the first time as digital audio! accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-07-31: Post Folk Fest Haul The wild thing about a festival of the age and breadth of scope of our Vancouver Folk Music Festival, is that in addition to the main draw -- all the incredible international performers demonstrating ...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast , a celebration of the Vancouver #FolkMusic Festival's merch tent offerings, is up online as digital audio and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/07/29/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2014-07-30: Almost August As our alt-accordion radio show broadcast / podcast straddles different eras simultaneously, technologically speaking, to help our "old content" get another lease on life we do like to cast a little s...

Haven't had any of these to share recently, but here's an episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir program from ten years ago! accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/07/29/a... Pictured: Arkansas' Itinerant Locals.

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-05-22: Return 2 Live Noir Take 2! Today is Accordion Patent Day, celebrating Cyrill Demian's successfully filing the paperwork in 1829 enshrining him as the inventor of the accordion! (And then there is Friedrich Buschmann's 1822 clai...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/05/23/a... #accordion #podcast

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-03-06: Next Time in March "Triston Downey and Ciaran McPolin, Mayobridge Band from Derry taking part in the 45th International Band Championship, LimerickPic Sean Curtin Fusionshooters" Every week we share an hour (at least!) ...

The latest, very, very March-centric episode of our weekly hour-long #CFRO Co-opr Radio #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-01-24: Another Squeeze Around the World (1913-2024) This week's episode of Accordion Noir is out, featuring our trademark melange of free reed musics from different musical traditions representing far-flung and disparate cultures across the planet! I...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-27: Brief Respite in Midwinter Sometimes you run out of accordion playlists before you run out of weeks in the year. In a pinch during holiday activities Bruce had to quickly produce some tunes for last night's episode of our wee...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-Op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast, featuring a few long, contemplative, drone-y compositions, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-20: Solstice Solstice Everywhere (on Earth) In all the holiday excitement, Bruce failed to notice that he hadn't sent me the playlist for this week's episode of Accordion Noir, and I had failed to notice that I hadn't posted the epiode yet!  B...

Last night's holiday episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly, hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-12-13: December the 13th! It's December! There are many occasions to celebrate at this time of year (and the always-festive lucky number 13), but for purposes of last night's episode of our weekly alt-accordion radio broadca...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir radio broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/a...

Accordion Noir 2023-12-06: The Death of Shane MacGowan, and we’ve got 19 days until the New Ukrain... We're inexorably inching our way toward the winter holiday season, one best characterised not only by what it offers but also what it takes away, so this week's broadcast of Accordion Noir radio also ...

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast eases into the winter season with an observance of Shane MacGowan's death. You can get an earful via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/12/06/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-11-29: Last Bandcamp Friday of the Year This week's hour-long episode of our weekly Accordion Noir broadcast doesn't just look ahead to this Friday's "Bandcamp Friday" sale (you pay the same, but a higher proportion of the purchase price ma...

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast, marking both tomorrow's #BandcampFriday and seventeen years on the air for us, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2023-11-22: Sailing on that Lonesome Seasoning Bruce is by himself in his apartment as the season turns, preparing to make a new run of accordion-themed buttons for his Etsy shop for squeezy fans to send (and receive) as gifts in a bit over a mont...

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment as streaming audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/a...

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2013-11-20: Schmenge Brothers’ Workout Show! Here's an archival episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio's weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio program from ten years ago! On this occasion it seems we leaned somewhat heavily on the Old Country pol...

From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir #radio broadcast, featuring the #polka in flavours both sincere and ironic. You can get an earful via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/a...

Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen wears his buttonbox before an abstract kaleidoscopic display on the ceiling.

Last night's hour-long episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via
accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/11/16/a...

high-value paper currency bills flutter from where they are wedged in the top of an accordionist's bellows.

Last night's episode of #CFRO Co-op #CommunityRadio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/a...

Punk illustration of a six-armed self-playing accordion out for a stroll in mismatched stockings and tall boots. Each of the arm's six hands is alive with the wisdom of a third eye. Art by Julie the Bruce.

#introduction Hello from the #AccordionNoir show on #CFRO Co-Op #CommunityRadio in Vancouver, BC, from where we broadcast an hour of alt-#squeezebox music weekly since 2006. As well, we present a monthly #accordion circle, & many falls the world's most misunderstood instrument puts on a festival.