
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 |
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Apr. 1, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools’ Day |
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Mar. 25, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 - Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 - Bringing It All Back Home Revisited |
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Mar. 18, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Canadian Places |
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Mar. 11, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Part 1 - Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025); Part 2 - "Hello in There" and other songs that reference the elderly. |
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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 |
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Feb. 25, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | A Tribute to Nina Simone (1933-2003) |
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Feb. 18, 2025 | Mike Regenstreif | Songs from Gullah Traditions |
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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