Hosted by: Mike Regenstreif
Airs: Every Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Coming up at 3:30 PM on March 17th, 2026:
The theme on the March 17 edition of Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif is St. Patrick's Day.
Stranger Songs
| Date | Host | Highlight | On Demand |
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| Mar. 17, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | St. Patrick’s Day |
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| Mar. 10, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | Songs of The Beatles |
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| Mar. 3, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | The Water Lily and Other Song/Poems of Henry Lawson |
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| Feb. 24, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | The Legacy of Lead Belly |
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| Feb. 17, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | A Mardi Gras Day Tribute to Louis Prima (1910-1978) |
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| Feb. 10, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | Songs of – or inspired by – the Civil Rights Movement |
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| Feb. 3, 2026 | Mike Regenstreif | A Tribute to Jackie Washington (1919-2009) |
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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
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