Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 9, 2022: “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57170.html

Theme: “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs.

All the songs on this show are performed a cappella – that is the singers are not accompanied by musical instruments.

Maddy Prior & The Girls- Acapella Stella
Bib & Tuck (Park)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken (1976) Photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken, Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Dig My Grave
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Alison Krauss- Down to the River to Pray
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
Ralph Stanley- O Death
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
Jesse Winchester- I Can’t Stand Up Alone
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Homeless
Graceland (Warner Bros.)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)
Blue Flame String Band- Blues Stay Away from Me
Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish)

Maria Dunn- Beautiful Fools
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Finest Kind- John Barleycorn
Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle)
Finest Kind- John Barleycorn Deconstructed
For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Garnet Rogers- Sammy’s Bar
Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Pressgang Mutiny- Roll Away
Across the Western Ocean (Pressgang Mutiny)
Coope, Boyes & Simpson- Shallow Brown
Coope, Boyes & Simpson (World Music Network)
Rod MacDonald- A Sailor’s Prayer
No Commercial Traffic (Solstice)

Kim Harris & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Oh Freedom
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)
Priscilla Herdman- Ain’t I a Woman
Darkness Into Light (Flying Fish)
The Short Sisters- Honey in the Rock
Love and Transportation (Black Socks Press)
Sweet Honey in the Rock- Rivers of Babylon
Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

The Wailin' Jennys- Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Fifteen (True North)
Penny Lang- Never Turning Back
Carry On Children (She-Wolf)
Windborne- When I’m Gone
Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Sneezy Waters- Solitude
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
The Manhattan Transfer- Foreign Affair
The Manhattan Transfer Anthology: Down in Birdland (Rhino)
Rosalie Sorrels- The Toast
What Ever Happened to the Girl That Was (Paramount)
Dave Van Ronk- Last Call
Going Back to Brooklyn (HighTone)

Next week: It’s Lake Time.

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--Mike Regenstreif