@accordionbruce
Accordion Historian ๐ค ๐ช Author of Accordion Revolution: a Peopleโs History of the Accordion in North America from the Industrial Revolution to Rock โnโ Roll (2019) ๐ ๐ช Successful Accordion Emoji sponsor (2020) ๐คฉ ๐ช Accordion Noir Radio DJ (2006 โ )
Last night's squeezy episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast is now up online and available for your listening enjoyment via accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/a...
This weekโs @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode promotes todayโs Last #BandcampFriday Before New Years
Grab these links to give #accordion artists gifts of invaluable merit
With about 90% of proceeds going to the bands today! ๐ช
(Also holiday Book Recommendations about other instruments! ๐ป๐ธ๐ช๐)
#TheWho โBehind Blue Eyesโ Instrumental Button Box #Accordion Cover!
youtu.be/f8WXSyggt4M
#Rock
One Less #Guitar ๐ธ
@accordionnoir@zirk.us @thirdpearl
After all my big promo I realized I had the wrong audio file attached in the podcast so if you went to listen to our spectacular #drone #accordion special, you wouldโve got a previous episode
Fixed now so do please offer it to your ears:
I'm very stoked about this concert we're hosting at the Peretz Centre in Vancouver on Dec 3rd with two NY musicians. Michael Winograd, who I consider the best klezmer musican around these days๐ and Ira Temple, my friend & hard working accordionist who is no slouch either.
This right here weirdness on @accordionnoir.bsky.socialโs big drone accordion special
#PaulineOliverosโs โ โThe Wellโ from her The Well & The Gentle (1984)
imprec.bandcamp.com/album/the-we...
#AccordionBandcamp #drone #accordion
Getting going on the first hour of tonightโs #Drone Accordion Three Hour special episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9โMid or online ๐ช
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows weโve done
This year's @accordionnoir.bsky.social special episode: #Drone & #ExperimentalMusic Squeeze into the Long Nights๐ช available for global listeners!
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM, Wed Oct 29, starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight ๐
Click to Donate While Listening:
#Accordion
This week's #Halloween special episoode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! ๐ป
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic ๐ช fundraiser show starts early from 9PMโMid
This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host ๐ฎ๐น๐ช
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement ๐
Click to listen while you read:
Check out the playlist for this weekโs episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 โ 4 hrs left!)
Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today ๐ฐ๐ช
Itโs Bandcamp Friday! Hereโs my old band โBeast, Please Be Stillโ where I met my wife (she played accordion). Itโs post-rock but with violin, flute, electronic wind instrument, and cellphone feedback? Very 2007.
Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...
#bandcampfriday
Al, wearing an accordion, poses backstage with Flo & Eddie, who are blowing party horns.
RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.
There could be books on every member of that Figgy Duff
Not sure theyโd all want anything to do with that though! ๐
Trying to get out my vision of โwhat was happening with the accordionโ, can obscure the labour and lives of the artists who were there when the accordions werenโt playing, or who did the work to make the scene happen, or were โ frankly โ more important than the accordion player sometimes
Great article! Thank you!
Figgy Duff were really interesting to read and write about in my #AccordionRevolution book. Iโm pretty sure I didnโt do them justice in my urge to tell my story of folk music accordion trends
Like most Canadian bands they havenโt gotten enough attention
Today (Aug 15) in #NLMusicHistory...
In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.
@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
Separated from our place in Gastown by a few hundred meters because everywhere East of the Sea Bus remains dedicated to industrial use / which left #DTES residents to fight for Crab Park ๐ฆ and it being Bob Mosesedโoff from the rest of the Sea Wall all these years
#Vancouver
#Bikeyvr
Trump's ending de minimis exemption (which would add 35% tax to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1
So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
Unusual pin connector for some kind of electronic audio output on the outside of a diatonic melodeon/accordion.
Back of a black accordion with two 2/4 inch jack audio output plugs. It is a Hohner Overture V model.
Same Accordion with the front grill taken off so you can see the wiring pour the peculiar electronic plug wired up to individual sensors for each key, I think.
Jack on the front of the Accordion, which looks to me to be perhaps a 12 V power input?
Big thread over on #accodion #Mastodon (such as it is) about an electronic melodeon, somebody found
I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk
mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
gulf accordion
Hey #Vancouver!
@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!
Iโm telling you cause I already got my ticket
lankumdublin.com
#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes
Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
out today - including the work of many good friends of mine. an album of new Yiddish music to benefit Abu Amsha's Gaza Birds Singing, a musical, educational, and therapeutic project in Gaza.
Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
This week's #bandcampfriday episode of Accordion Noir Festival radio is available for listening
With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars
So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for ๐ช๐ธ
![Page 210 from my Accordion Revolution:
โAn 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 Gagnรฉ 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)
Page 210 from my Accordion Revolution: โAn 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 Gagnรฉ 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].
First appearance of an accordion in Canadian history is at an Ursuline convent in Quebec City. We know because they kept the receipt in 1843
AccordionRevolution.org
#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
Copy of my Accordion Revolution book with many stickers and buttons from my Etsy shop, spread out before packing to mail.
A set of seven round white button badges with accordion register symbols of lines and dots that look a bit like cartoon stick figure ninja faces.
A bunch of packages ready to mail, all with red flamingo accordions stamped in them.
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week ๐ ๐ช
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
#Accordion #buttons #stickers
My mistake. I may have been forwarding posts from Australia or somewhere?
Oh I guess itโs today
Well there you go