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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 June 10th, 2025:
The theme on the June 10 edition Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif is Dreams: dreams we dream at night, or daydreams, or, in many cases, aspirational dreams, broken dreams and dreams fulfilled.

Stranger Songs

Date Host Highlight On Demand
Jun. 10, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Dreams
available
Jun. 3, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Busking
available
May. 27, 2025 Mike Regenstreif “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung” including a conversation with Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma.
available
May. 20, 2025 Mike Regenstreif Variations on Hallelujah
available
May. 13, 2025 Mike Regenstreif A Tribute to The Klezmatics
available
May. 6, 2025 Mike Regenstreif The Banjo Special
available
Apr. 29, 2025 Mike Regenstreif “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark
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