Skip to Main Content
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 October 8th, 2024:
The theme on the October 8 edition of Stranger Songs is My Town and Other Towns – all of the songs have something or other to do with towns.

Stranger Songs

Date Host Highlight On Demand
Oct. 8, 2024 Mike Regenstreif My Town and Other Towns
available
Oct. 1, 2024 Mike Regenstreif Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Songs of Tim Hardin (1941-1980)
available
Sep. 24, 2024 Mike Regenstreif Leonard Cohen at 90
available
Sep. 17, 2024 Mike Regenstreif Hank Williams 101
available
Sep. 10, 2024 Mike Regenstreif Conversation and Songs with Reggie Harris
available
Sep. 3, 2024 Mike Regenstreif Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2
available
Aug. 27, 2024 Mike Regenstreif "Walking Blues"
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