
Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif
Airs: Every Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Coming up at 3:30 PM on April 22nd, 2025:
The theme on the April 22 edition of Stranger Songs is Songs for Earth Day, which has been marked on April 22 since 1970.
Stranger Songs
Date | Host | Highlight | On Demand |
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Apr. 22, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Songs for Earth Day |
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Apr. 15, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” |
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Apr. 8, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | A Tribute to Doc Watson (1923-2012) |
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Apr. 1, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools’ Day |
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Mar. 25, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 - Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 - Bringing It All Back Home Revisited |
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Mar. 18, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Canadian Places |
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Mar. 11, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 - Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025); Part 2 - "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly. |
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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