Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif
Airs: Every Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Coming up at 3:30 PM on July 8th, 2025:
The theme on the July 8 edition of Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif is Peggy Seeger at 90. Peggy turned 90 on June 17.
Stranger Songs
| Date | Host | Highlight | On Demand |
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| Jul. 8, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Peggy Seeger at 90 |
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| Jul. 1, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Songs for Canada Day |
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| Jun. 24, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | 1965 |
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| Jun. 17, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Music for 88 Keys |
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| Jun. 10, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Dreams |
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| Jun. 3, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Busking |
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| May. 27, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung” including a conversation with Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma. |
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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
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