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Stranger Songs
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 April 1st, 2025:
The themes on the April 1 edition of Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif are Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025) and April Fool's Day.

Stranger Songs

Date Host Highlight On Demand
Apr. 1, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools’ Day
available
Mar. 25, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Part 1 - Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 - Bringing It All Back Home Revisited
available
Mar. 18, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Canadian Places
available
Mar. 11, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Part 1 - Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025); Part 2 - "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly.
available
Mar. 4, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Part 1 - Remembering Roberta Flack (1937-2025); Part 2 - A Tribute to Fats Domino (1928-2017) on Mardi Gras Day
available
Feb. 25, 2025 Mike Regenstreif A Tribute to Nina Simone (1933-2003)
available
Feb. 18, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Songs from Gullah Traditions
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