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Stranger Songs
Tuesday November 11th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 – Remembrance Day; Part 2 – Remembering Archie Fisher (1939-2025)

The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Remembrance Day and Remembering Archie Fisher. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Remembrance Day in Canada is marked annually on November 11, the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918.
11:11
Garnet Rogers - Sparrow’s Wing - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
In Flanders Fields
Eric Bogle - A Toss of the Coin - Greentrax Canadian
Missing at the Somme
Jimmy Rankin - Harvest Highway - Song Dog Music/Linus Canadian
Remembrance Day/Flowers of the Forest
Bobby Watt - Watt Next? - Glenashdale Music Canadian
No Man’s Land
Priscilla Herdman - Forgotten Dreams - Flying Fish
The Great War
Mason Daring - The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th - Daring
Archie Fisher, who died on November First at age 86 from lung cancer, was one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential interpreters of traditional and contemporary folk songs and a great songwriter whose original material was decidedly in the tradition. He was also a folk music radio host for many years on the BBC.
Reynardine
Archie Fisher - Archie Fisher - XTRA
Open the Door Softly
Andrew & Casey Calhoun - Skeins - Waterbug
The Terror Time
Small Potatoes - Time Flies - Folk Era
Farewell She
Archie Fisher - Archie Fisher - XTRA
Dark Eyed Molly
Eva Cassidy - American Tune - Blix Street
The Witch of the Westmorland
Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks...Live! - Fogarty's Cove/Borealis Canadian
Jock Stewart
Maria Dunn - Gathering - Distant Whisper Canadian
Coshieville
Red Horse (John Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson & Lucy Kaplansky) - Red Horse - Red House
South Wind
Archie Fisher - The Man with a Rhyme - Folk-Legacy
Borderland
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - Off the Map - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
Gunsmoke & Whisky
Archie Fisher - Sunsets I’ve Galloped Into… - Snow Goose Songs
Make and Break Harbour
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - The Best Times After All: Live - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
The Final Trawl
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - The Best Times After All: Live - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
Bill Hosie
Bill Staines - Looking for the Wind - Red House
Windward Away
Archie Fisher - Windward Away - Red House
The Parting Glass
Archie Fisher - A Silent Song - Red House
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
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