Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 4, 2025: Conversation and Songs with Connie Kaldor

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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Theme: Conversation and Songs with Connie Kaldor.

This is the second of two editions of Stranger Songs during CKCU’s annual funding drive for 2025, a funding drive falling just before CKCU celebrates 50 years of broadcasting on air – an incredible milestone for independent, listener-supported media in a day and age when independent, community-oriented media with programming curated, produced and hosted by a dedicated corps of volunteers, often experts in our fields, is harder and harder to come by. Please visit this link to support CKCU and Stranger Songs. https://www.canadahelps.org/me/6rUTtTVJ

Connie Kaldor, who I first worked with about 40 years ago, has long been one of Canada’s finest singer-songwriters. Our conversation was recorded via Zoom on October 11.

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

These songs punctuated my conversation with Connie.

Connie Kaldor- Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- God Made Mamas to Cry

Vinyl Songbook (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Wood River

Wood River (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Bird on a Wing

Wood River (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Singer of the Sacred Heart

Out of the Blue (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Cowboys Still Live in Saskatchewan

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Old Lady Whiskey

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Raining On the Farm

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- For Those Who Say That There’s Nothing Here

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Down the Road to Lonesome

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Outlaw

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Next week: Part 1 - Remembering Archie Fisher (1939-2025); Part 2 - Remembrance Day.

--Mike Regenstreif