Another Night of Pleasing Squeezing

Setting up two great squeeze shows in as many months, Accordion Noir presents an exciting and varied bill again!

* Vancouver's Creaking Planks are the house band of the venue and the house organ of Accordion Noir, being squeezingly fronted by the hairier of the two AN co-hosts. (That's fronted, not frotted!) The goal of this jug band of the damned is to take an array of old-timey instruments and confront you, repeatedly, with the music you are /least/ expecting to hear come out of them.

* Ghost hobo Jeff Andrew is so hot on the fiddle, we will willfully overlook his failure to play accordion of any kind. (His album, Vagabonds and Wastrels, does feature local squeeze thang Larissa Ardis rocking the squeezebox, so his membership is honorary.)

* Ottawa's Marie-Josee Houle (artwork by Amanda Wong) sings a sultry mixture of French jazz and gypsy tunes as fiery as her hair. She tours in support of Monsters and Our Lady of Broken Souls.

* Jason Webley has been relentlessly throwing himself to the forefront of a Tom Waits-ian gritty cabaret revival. He keeps his busking roots close to his heart through percussive use of a vodka bottle filled with coins from around the world, and has mastered the fine and subtle art of charming crowds not expecting accordion performance.