Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.
CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.
This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52778.html
Theme: Remembering Mimi Fariña
Mimi Fariña – the younger sister of Joan Baez and the musical partner and widow of important singer, songwriter and author Richard Fariña – passed away 20 years ago this week on July 18, 2001 from cancer at the young age of 56. Most of the show is devoted to a concert recorded in 1988 for German radio.
Mimi & Richard Fariña- Pack Up Your Sorrows
Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)
Mimi was an activist and in 1974, she founded a non-profit organization called Bread & Roses in the San Francisco Bay area that presents more than 600 concerts per year in institutions ranging from children's day care centres and special needs schools, to hospitals, adult and juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, adult recovery centers, nursing homes and seniors’ day centres.
Mimi named her organization Bread & Roses after reading James Oppenheim’s poem, Bread & Roses, written in honor of the women garment workers on strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike became known as the Bread & Roses strike because of its slogan – “Give us bread, but give us roses, too.” Mimi set the poem to music and it became the title song of Judy Collins’ 1976 album, Bread and Roses.
Judy Collins- Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses (Elektra)
The concert by Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger -- recorded February 2nd, 1988 by Michael Kleff for German radio -- is available on a CD called Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses. It is available from the Bread & Roses website at this link.
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Best of Friends
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Children of Darkness
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- I Can See Clearly Now
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Dandelion
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Old Woman
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi & Richard Fariña- Dog Blue
Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Come Get Me Shoes
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Less Than the Song
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Deep Feelings
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Sad Cities
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Mama Tried
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- If My Eyes Were Blind
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Big Party
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Daniel Prayed
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Defying Gravity
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Joan Baez- Sweet Sir Galahad
Live at Woodstock (Craft)
Pete Seeger- The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
God Bless the Grass (Columbia/Legacy)
Rhiannon Giddens- Birmingham Sunday
Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)
Caroline Doctorow- Reflections in a Crystal Wind
Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)
Next week – Hourglass: Songs and conversation with Murray McLauchlan
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--Mike Regenstreif
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