Accordion Noir is the name of a weekly radio show originating from

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, and an annual music festival there associated with the show. Bruce Triggs and Rowan Lipkovits started ''Accordion Noir'' in December 2006 as an

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

-themed radio show on Vancouver community radio station

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. The festival began in 2007, and takes place in several Vancouver venues each year.

Past performers

Geoff Berner Geoff Berner (born 1971) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician from Vancouver. Musical career Berner originally studied piano in his youth. At a party, somebody asked him why he did not play the accordion. As a result, he began learni ...

, who was an inspiration for starting the festival, and who has launched albums and books there * The Creaking Planks * Fang * Antii Paalanen * Iva Nova * Patrick Farrell and Ben Holmes * Renée De la Prade * Orkestar Slivovica * Demon Squadron * Miss Murgatroid * Nefertiti in the Kitchen * Jason Webley *

Wendy McNeill Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activitie ...

References

External links

''Accordion Noir'' show page at CFRO-FM
including archived episodes
Accordion Noir SocietyAccordion Noir Festival
website
Vancouver Squeezebox Circle
a monthly gathering of accordionists connected with ''Accordion Noir,'' which has been occurring since 2007 {{music-festival-stub 2000s Canadian radio programs Accordion Mass media in Vancouver