Finding connections and developing themes in various genres.
Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif
Airs: Every Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Coming up at 3:30 PM on May 11th, 2021:
The theme this week on Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif is "Songs from the Pandemic," some of the songs inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic that have been written and recorded over the past 14 months.

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
May. 11, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Songs from the Pandemic	available
May. 4, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	The Second Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert	available
Apr. 27, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	April in Paris	available
Apr. 20, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Celebrating Spring	available
Apr. 13, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Train Songs	available
Apr. 6, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	The First Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert	available
Mar. 30, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Theme: Songs Inspired by Bible Stories	available

Finding connections and developing themes in various genres.

Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif

“I told you when I came, I was a stranger,” sang Leonard Cohen in “The Stranger Song.” Expect the exploration of themes – often one major theme over the whole show, sometimes multiple themes in shorter segments.

Stranger Songs is curated and hosted by Mike Regenstreif, an editor, writer and broadcaster now based in Ottawa who has written about folk and roots music since the 1970s for Sing Out! Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Canadian newspapers.

His radio show, Folk Roots/Folk Branches, was on CKUT in Montreal from 1994 to 2007.

At CKCU, he is also one of the rotating hosts of Saturday Morning (every fourth week), and an occasional co-host of Canadian Spaces.

In 2014, Mike was the recipient of the Ottawa Folk Festival’s Helen Verger Award for “significant, sustained contributions to folk/roots music in Canada” and, in 2017, he was one of the inaugural inductees into the Folk DJ Hall of Fame created by Folk Alliance International.

Email Mike Regenstreif mikeregenstreif@rogers.com