Finding connections and developing themes in various genres.
Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif
Airs: Every Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

“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

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Jul. 27, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Hourglass: Songs and Conversation with Murray McLauchlan	available
Jul. 20, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Remembering Mimi Fariña	available
Jul. 13, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Songs About Refugees. Guest: Diana Jones.	available
Jul. 6, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	The Fourth Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert	available
Jun. 29, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Dance Music	available
Jun. 22, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Summer Songs	available
Jun. 15, 2021	Mike Regenstreif	Working in the Coalmine	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