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2010-09-24: Accordion Noir Festival Squeezebox Dance Party

Posted: September 20th, 2010 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

The third annual Accordion Noir fest is upon us again, a whole week of festivities already underway (click here for full details) and as with the previous two years, the Creaking Planks simply had to log an appearance celebrating the bountiful local supply of the wonderful squeezy weirdness whose virtues the Accordion Noir radio show / podcast extols weekly. Otherwise put:

Friday, Septemeber 24th — Vancouver’s number one squeezebox dance party: Mezamazing, Maria in the Shower, the Orkestar Slivovica and the Creaking Planks!

This Friday night, we celebrate two of the greatest mechanical inventions of the 19th century: the accordion, brought to life in the hands of some of East Van’s most bombastic purveyors of dance music from the Balkans and points further out in left field, and the bicycle, rolled along Vancouver’s moist lanes and byways in defiance of the notion that the change of season has to bring with it a change in attitude.

Enjoy an earful of the sweet people-powered music that ruled over the pubs and campfires before steam power ruined everything, starting at 9 pm upstairs at the Grandview Legion Hall (2205 Commercial Drive) and running late into the night. Everyone can enjoy the show for the low price of $10, but helmet-clad Critical Mass riders pay only $8!

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3 Comments on “2010-09-24: Accordion Noir Festival Squeezebox Dance Party”

  1. 1 2010-09-07: Creaking Planks back at the Railway Club for more Memewar | The Creaking Planks said at 12:16 pm on September 20th, 2010:

    [...] then of course there’s the Accordion Noir Festival coming up in a couple of weeks… but one post at a time, [...]

  2. 2 2011-04-24: Planks play second fiddle to Jason Webley and Maria in the Shower | The Creaking Planks said at 3:22 pm on April 7th, 2011:

    [...] at the Grandview Legion Hall (2205 Commercial Drive) which we used to such good effect with them at last year’s Accordion Noir Festival. This show, also, is presented by the weekly Accordion Noir radio show / podcast — and what [...]

  3. 3 2012-09-14: ACCORDION DANCE PARTY at the 5th annual Accordion Noir Festival | The Creaking Planks said at 9:31 am on August 13th, 2012:

    [...] annual! Yow, outta sight!) Hopefully this party will simmer only slightly under the fever pitch of our last AN Fest appearance there, and perhaps be a bit less explicit than our last visit to the Grandview [...]

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