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 6th, 2023:
The theme for the June 6 edition of Stranger Songs is "Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years," songs written by Leonard Cohen from about 1990 until his death in 2016, a period covered by the book “Leonard Cohen – Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In,” the third in a series of three books of oral history about Leonard Cohen by Michael Posner.

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Jun. 6, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years	available
May. 30, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Songs of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)	available
May. 23, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	The Traditional Folk & Blues Songs of Bob Dylan	available
May. 16, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Remembering Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)	available
May. 9, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Remembering Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)	available
May. 2, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Stompin' at the Savoy	available
Apr. 25, 2023	Mike Regenstreif	Willie Nelson at 90	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