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Stranger Songs
Tuesday October 29th, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Stars & Skies – CKCU Funding Drive Week 1

The theme on this CKCU Funding Drive edition of Stranger Songs is Stars & Skies – all the songs have something or other to do with stars and/or skies. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
This is the first of two editions of Stranger Songs falling during CKCU’s annual funding drive for 2024 – so I hope that you will support Stranger Songs and CKCU with a tax deductible, charitable donation. Every donation, no matter the amount, is meaningful and will help keep CKCU's diverse programming going for another year.

The easiest way to make a donation is online. For the Stranger Songs donations page, just click on the donate button or on this link. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/stranger-songs You will receive a charitable tax receipt for any donation of $20 or more.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
North Star
Jesse Winchester - Third Down, 110 to Go - Stony Plain Canadian
How Far to the Horizon?
Jesse Winchester - Learn to Love It - Stony Plain Canadian
Counting on the Stars
Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl - The Early Years - Daring
My Skies
James Keelaghan - History: The First 25 Years - Borealis Canadian
Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way
Connie Kaldor - Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way - Coyote Entertainment Canadian
We’ll Look for Stars
Lynn Miles - We’ll Look for Stars - Must Have Music Canadian
Blue Skies
Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik - Martha Sings & Robert Plays - Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik
Would You Like to Swing on a Star?
Dave Van Ronk - Sunday Street - Philo
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Whole Night Sky
Bruce Cockburn - Rarities - True North Canadian
Bright Morning Stars
The Wailin' Jennys - Bright Morning Stars - True North Canadian
I Sit and Count the Stars
Bruce Murdoch - Matters of the Heart - Bruce Murdoch Canadian
Stardust
Cindy Church, George Koller, Joe Sealy - The Nearness of You: A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael - Seajam Canadian
Ten Thousand Skies
Vance Gilbert - Unfamiliar Moon - Disismye Music
Prairie Sky
Steel Rail - The Road Less Travelled - Crossties Canadian
Prairie in the Sky
Caroline Doctorow - I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin - Narrow Lane
Prairie Star
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon - Together - Appalseed Productions
Dusty Skies
The Wainwright Sisters - Songs in the Dark - MapleMusic Canadian
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Mary McCaslin - Prairie in the Sky - Philo
Pleiades
Anne Hills - Bittersweet Street - Redwing Music
One Small Star
Eric Bogle - At This Stage - Greentrax
The Galaxy Song
Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne - Beyond the Boundaries - Ripple
Underneath the Stars
Priscilla Herdman - Into the Stars - Stardreamer Music
Stars Fell on Alabama
Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick - Stride Guitar - Rounder
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Big thank yous to Neil McLeod, Paul & Bev Mills, Michael Regenstreif, Sylvie Barzilay, Peter Blatherwick and Felicity Fanjoy for your kind donations to the CKCU Funding Drive in support of Stranger Songs.

10:50 AM, October 28th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
It is quite the honor to have a theme suggestion accepted and curated by the Caretaker of Folk himself!!! And In honor of this, please read below This year, because I can, I am making a donation to CKCU. Because I cant spread-pledge, I am writing this note. I am donating $175 for all my favorite shows on CKCU:   Music For A While Off The Charts Stranger Songs Uqallagvik Renny’s Riot Shirley's Corner Whatever's Cool With Me David Dalle Studio J Candyshop Canadian Spaces Back 40 The Groove Reggae In The Fields An Indian Morning Music From The Glen This Island Earth   To all those jealous people, these are my staples, I am not limited to them ;). I know that only comes put to $10 a show, and I will try to donate more at the end. Believe me, if I had it, I would donate The entire $175,000!!!   Like I told Dylan, radio is 50% of my life, my cats are the rest :)! And CKCU is the biggest part of that radio. CKCU is my family and friends. And it is the only radio station where an eclectic music junkie like me can get his fix! And share with others on the interactive too!!! So everybody listening DONATE TOO!!!   THANKS CKCU!!!

2:39 PM, October 28th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Bobby. I'm sure I speak for all the other hosts in saying that your support for CKCU and our shows is meaningful and highly appreciated.

3:32 PM, October 28th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thank you to Anonymous for your kind donation to CKCU in support of Stranger Songs.

3:35 PM, October 28th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thank you Mary Gick for your kind donation to CKCU in support of Stranger Songs.

1:49 PM, October 29th, 2024
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
My sentiment too, Bobby. Huge respect for you my friend!! BTW my fridge list is almost a carbon copy of yours, man. We share common tastes.

2:38 PM, October 29th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
And not 1, but 2 "Jesse"s , as my girlfriend Pam used to say....❤️ very touched right now

3:36 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil and Bobby.

3:51 PM, October 29th, 2024
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Mike, I can never thank you enough for doing Stranger Songs every week. Unlike Bobby, I only discovered you and your show a couple of years ago. Since then, this show has delivered to me more shivers up my arms and spine, more smiles upon my face, more tears from my eyes and more pounding in my heart than any show or film I have ever discovered. In fact, it has become my tonic and therapy for life and the roads I have travelled. We all treasure your curation and the stories you share with us every week. May God keep you well and healthy for many years to come so we can all continue to bask in the musical journey to take us on with every theme and connection. Thanks, Mike for all the memorable moments.

4:17 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks so much for your thoughts, Neil.

4:22 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thank you Linda Lewis for your kind donation to CKCU in support of Stranger Songs.

4:47 PM, October 29th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Wow, wow, wow, wow! And so much CanCon, too (i hadn't looked at the playlist)! Beautiful, beautiful show, Mike. Thank you so so much!!! You dont know how much this show has meant to me! Thank you for all these years at CKCU, and for all those years at CKUT! ❤️ 😢 😊 ✌️ ☮️ 🕊 🙏 Shalom! P.S.And thanks Neil for the kind words!

4:52 PM, October 29th, 2024
PeterB
Greetings Mike / Stranger Songs, and ALL. Just a note to let y'all know I have also donated to SS, as well as good scatter-gun CKCU generally. All listeners, lovers of great music, and robot-haters, DO IT! Tap and donate right now!

4:53 PM, October 29th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
And thank you PeterB!!!

4:54 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks again, Bobby.

5:00 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Peter B. Your support is much appreciated (see the top note in the comments).

5:02 PM, October 29th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thank you Christina Anderman for your kind donation to CKCU in support of Stranger Songs.

12:04 AM, October 30th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thank you Catherine Cookman for your kind donation to CKCU in support of Stranger Songs.

9:36 AM, October 30th, 2024