Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-06-12: Bruce’s Birthday Bellows Bash!

Yesterday was Accordion Noir host Bruce’s birthday! But since he has the “big picture” perspective, he knows of many other important birthday and anniversaries in the accordion world also taking place at this time of year, and last night’s episode of our weekly broadcast engages all of them! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist — take it away, Bruce!

It’s Bruce’s birthday. So this week’s theme sprang from that and his historian’s penchant for collecting dates and facts:
June 12 is also John Linnell from They Might be Giants’s birthday.

Yesterday as I write, June 11th was Cleveland Chenier’s birthday, the first zydeco scrub-board player. Cleveland’s brother Clifton was the “King of Zydeco” and went and got the first zydeco scrub-board made. So there weren’t any before that.

June 13th is Accordion Day USA, Not Jan 13th, which is a funny story: https://www.letspolka.com/2007/01/accordion-patent-day-or-not/

June 14th is Saint Benildus’s birthday, patron saint of accordion players. http://catholicsaints.info/saint-benildus/

And Sunday, June 16, would have been the late Regiz Gisavo’s 70th birthday 

 We play a beautiful tune for him on tonight’s show.

Here’s a link to Bruce’s Accordion Holidays Calendar you can download to have on your own Apple or Google device! How weird is that? 

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Playlist:

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Angel Corpus Christi – ‟I’m 18” – The 80s (1989) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.angelcorpuschristi.com/
* Los Tangueros del Oeste – ‟El Aguacil” – Sos el Amor (2024) – Brooklyn, New York (USA) – http://www.lostanguerosdeloeste.com – https://avantangorecords.bandcamp.com/
* They Might Be Giants – ‟Rhythm Section Want Ad” – They Might Be Giants (1986) –  – www.tmbg.com
* The Dardanelles – ‟Solomon Bar / Tripping After Dan” – Vancouver Folk Festival Sampler 2011 (0) – Newfoundland, Canada – www.theFestival.bc.cahttp://thedardanelles.com/
* Régis Gizavo/Louis Mhlanga/David Mirandon – ‟Aia Roze” – Stories (2006) – Madagascar, Zimbabwe/South Africa, France – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Régis_Gizavohttp://www.rootsworld.com/freereed/gizavo.html
* Clifton Chenier – ‟Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler” – Frenchin’ The Boogie (1976) – Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA – https://www.allmusic.com/album/frenchin-the-boogie-mw0000108976
* Wendy McNeill – ‟Our Time” – For The Wolf, A Good Meal (2011) – Canada and now Sweden – http://www.wendymcneill.com/
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Molly Donnery – ‟The Cabin with the Roses Round the Door ” – A Little Bit Slanted (2024) – England, UK – Molly Donnery, voc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle; Murray Grainger, piano acc. – http://theciderhouserebellion.com/ – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
* Vagabond Opera – ‟Slow Beranche” – Vagabond Opera (2006) – Portland, Oregon, USA – http://vagabondopera.com/
* Latour ; Riendeau, accordéon e – ‟Valse clog = Clog waltz” – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1929) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – © www.nlc-bnc.ca
* Dazibao – ‟Sylvie” – E40 (2007) – Belgium – www.sophiecavez.bewww.myspace.com/dazibaofolk
* The Balfa Brothers – ‟La vieille danse a balfa” – J’ai Vu Le Loup, Le Renard et La Belette (1976) –  – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balfa_Brothers
* Bob Goldberg / BAN Radio Orchestra – ‟Birthday Polar 2004” – Regular Music (Democracy) (2024) – Bearsville, New York, USA – Visit https://banrecords.bandcamp.com

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