And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IB...

The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones). youtu.be/l3ui_BrGPOs

With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRV...

It's been maybe a month since I got any new #StupidAccordionTricks recordings together -- but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate #DickVanDyke's 100th birthday with #FidelityFiduciaryBank from 1964's #MaryPoppins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsgh...

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlI...

As part of my #RemembranceDay duties, I have diligently recorded an antiwar song for last week's #StupidAccordionTrick: #ElvisCostello's 1984 #Shipbuilding, a look at the Falklands War. youtu.be/ZWxtEPTYPNs

Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.

Good morning 😊 Yes, Sir Clive hated that the Spectrum was popular because of the games and a C5 could never go this fast, but I had a lot of fun making this tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum 👍 Animation made in Blender, sountrack made in Studio one #zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bitgaming

To preserve the great balance of things, after I record a seasonally-appropriate experimental electronic anthem by Aphex Twin, I have to compensate for it by sharing a tenuously relevant Backstreet Boys hit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Jh...

While thinking of dark, disturbing songs for the Halloween season, this abrasive #AphexTwin classic floats to the top of any such list. But surely it would be sheer folly to attempt to reproduce it on an acoustic instrument, especially one as inherently whimsical as the piano #accordion?

Part scary, part silly, all #StupidAccordionTricks: here's my take on the ghostly 1934 music-hall standard #WithHerHeadTuckedUnderneathHerArm youtu.be/ydLoOdtSBMw

Time to kick October into high gear with some creepy tunes! This is the late #TomLehrer's 1956 #TheIrishBallad, a gory tale of woe! youtu.be/lHSIHOF9t_0

The Chimney Swallows are playing in Chilliwack tonight, almost certainly too late for me to spur any of you on to go catch them, but ... nevertheless, I have recorded their call-and-response anthem "John Solomon" in promotion of their rare appearance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Fc...

I was stuck circling an unenviable setlist of bleak antifascist dirges, but thankfully Jane Goodall died so I can break free from my holding pattern and send her off with King Louis' song from #theJungleBook: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0p...

I got a bigger response from my latest shrewd #StupidAccordionTricks selection than I expected & was a bit nervous about failing to read the historical moment & following it up with a dud. Sadly, this one is proving evergreen: the Italian partisan ballad #BellaCiao. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm1...

I'm a little young to have fond memories of Robert Redford's greatest movies, but nevertheless I was struck by Disney's acumen in tapping him for oldschool "classic suspense movie" vibes in Winter Soldier.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

For no particular reason, here's my #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #Chumbawamba's 1994 antifa anthem #TheDayTheNaziDied youtu.be/s21IF7OWo8E

RIP #MarkVolman! I never had much occasion to tap this classic tune prior, but now for this week my #StupidAccordionTrick will be sending him off with #TheTurtles' 1967 #HappyTogether www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iEd...

If you're around Strathcona next Sunday afternoon, you should stop by the park and take in a set of sweet squeezebox tunes, including some no doubt bizarre selections interpreted by yours truly

@danvie.bsky.social this is no Facebook, but glad to see you're still making the most of the services available to you

This week's #StupidAccordionTrick was one of my wife's favourite #TomTHall songs, #ILove, covered on the occasion of her birthday! youtu.be/SMenMafRDAo

We do #Pride in August here in Vancouver, so for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick I've gone back to 1984 to accordionise #BronskiBeat's anthem of queer youth alienation, #SmalltownBoy. Recorded well after midnight, the entire performance is a kind of fugue state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBg...

Rest in Power to #TomLehrer, whose transgressive songs about life and politics were so powerful when he wrote them sixty years ago that I dare not record most of them even today! From 1967's That Was The Year That Was, here's #Pollution. youtu.be/3wpSCWBXMuo

Late in the night, I finally had a chance to record an #OzzyOsbourne memorial #StupidAccordionTricks tribute -- you know, as quietly as possible so as not to awaken my family. As one does! Last stop, everyone off the #CrazyTrain! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBcS...

20 yrs ago, this nonsense poetry arrangement was a centrepiece in our avant-garde cabaret "That's My Brain... and you're KILLING it!" Four of its alumni were at a picnic last weekend, so I took the opportunity to commit the nonsense to video for weird posterity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHv5...

Usually if you said I was playing #AllNightLong, it would just be a metaphor for how interminable this #StupidAccordionTricks set was, feeling like you'd never see the blessed end of it. But in this case you'd just be accurately naming #LionelRichie's 1983 song. youtu.be/zeq1DtqwTUA

Explaining the plot of the Terminator movies to my kid who thinks that Skynet is underplaying its hand by only attempting to assassinate the resistance leader. Why not send a death robot further back to kill Jesus? Well that would be a problem for Christianity but human society would keep going...

Happy #CanadaDay! In honour of the occasion, today's #StupidAccordionTrick is one of the most Canadian songs ever, #AnneMurray's 1968 #Snowbird! youtu.be/F8-qbMLF_0o

Today's #StupidAccordionTrick is a tune I'd only heard before as a schoolyard rhyme when I was ten, assuming it was a gag from a TV show. No: it was written by #BennyBell in 1946 and my ten-year-old just brought it to my attention! Are you ready for #ShavingCream? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8b...

We reached the summer solstice somehow, so here's a deep cut for my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks series, the shortest video I've ever recorded and also the oldest song, nearly 800 years of age! Stand back, #SumerIsIcumenIn www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5W...

Some celebrity deaths call for emergency expedited #StupidAccordionTricks, and #BrianWilson's definitely qualified. Rest in peace, king! Here's his sublime #GodOnlyKnows, compromised only with the drag factor of my squeezebox and singing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xv...

Here's a #StupidAccordionTrick I had in the can for a rainy day, a comedic musical retelling of the story of #KingMidas and his Golden Touch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2D4...

I've fallen behind with my #StupidAccordionTricks schedule this month, but here's a classic tune I had installed in an "In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass" box. It's #GeoffBerner's exhaustingly evergreen #MaginotLine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIM...

Continue the forward trajectory of your music career, or suffer the consequence of your child being taught songs written by your former colleagues by their hip teachers.

Circling back around to pop music for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the Korean drinking game #BrunoMars turned into a pop banger with Rosé, #APT, in Tom Waits reggae style. youtu.be/uVS3kStmW1M

Wrapping foolish April with my most foolish #stupidaccordiontrick of the month - possibly of the entire year! - from 1966, here's #FrankZappa's #CallAnyVegetable! youtu.be/2m50JGKzDjM

Here we are, we saved the biggest April Fool's #StupidAccordionTrick for the end of the month. I know, you're thinking "What's so funny about Cyndi Lauper?" but you'd be surprised. youtu.be/7tJpgMG-wso

Happy #Easter! For today's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the wacky and sacreligious 1957 tune #PlasticJesus. youtu.be/kNczyTBlWmo

For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick in my April of foolishly humorous songs I have visited #BrookeAbbey 's disaster dirge #TheWreckOfTheCrashOfTheEasthillMineDisaster, an incredible song that took the filk world by storm around twenty years ago. youtu.be/N7SzbUGap8Y

Americana songwriter #JohnPrine died on this date five years ago and I still haven't quite come to terms with the loss. In his memory, here's his iconic #SamStone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUTK...

#KatieLee sang this lolsob song, #theWillToFail, in 1957's psychoanalysis-themed "Songs of Couch and Consultation", so I'm keeping the silly songs rolling for April's #StupidAccordionTricks youtu.be/_4SeaVKAmz8

Plastic Love played on shuffle, so I drew Mariya Takeuchi in 64x64 1-bit.

No, I haven't had a stroke. Today's #StupidAccordionTrick for #AprilFools is my take on #PhilosophyOfTheWorld by inadvertent outsider art legends #TheShaggs. Stay tuned for further stupidity in April, where I aim to be foolish all month long! youtu.be/3a87bZE6abA

To finish off my #StupidAccordionTricks month of songs by kick-ass women songwriters, I climbed into the ring with #Heart's #Barracuda and wound up flat on my back, figuratively speaking. But I had to take a crack at it! youtu.be/T7-_atItZN8

For IWD March I try to dedicate my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks selections to songs by kick-ass women songwriters. #LesleyGore's iconic feminist anthem #YouDontOwnMe technically doesn't qualify, but here it seems I have recorded it regardless. youtu.be/3Q9WA797PI0

It's my annual #StupidAccordionTricks conflict of wanting to observe St. Patrick's day with some Irish music but not having any interest in Celtic music (DESPITE playing an instrument that fits with it... the pitfalls of the contrarian.)

This week's #StupidAccordionTrick is a solid tune from an album that earned its place living in our car's CD player for three years without ever getting removed, #TimesATicker from #AmeliaCurran's 2008 #WarBrides. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbv9...

In March I try to surf #IWD all month long and focus my #StupidAccordionTricks on kick-ass women songwriters, so here's #MalvinaReynolds' 1964 protest song #ItIsntNice, a tune whose time has come again. youtu.be/iYtVNFBnOUc