Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 19, 2026: Songs and Conversation with Judy Collins


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.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/75411.html

Theme: Songs and Conversation with Judy Collins.

Judy Collins joined me via Zoom for this edition of Stranger Songs. She’ll be in Ottawa on Friday May 29 for a concert at the National Arts Centre in the Babs Asper Theatre with special guest Garnet Rogers.

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2026)

These songs punctuated our conversation.

Judy Collins- Both Sides Now
Wildflowers (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Maid of Constant Sorrow
Maids & Golden Apples (Wildflower)

Judy Collins- The Last Thing On My Mind
3 & 4: The Judy Collins Concert (Wildflower) 

Judy Collins- Mr. Tambourine Man 
Fifth Album (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Farewell to Tarwathie
Whales & Nightingales (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Suzanne
In My Life (Elektra)
Judy Collins- Since You’ve Asked
Wildflowers (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Someday Soon
Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Marieke
Whales & Nightingales (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Send in the Clowns
Judith (Elektra)

Judy Collins- My Father
Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Easy Times
Living (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Albatross
Wildflowers (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Amazing Grace
Whales & Nightingales (Elektra)

Next week: Part 1 – Remembering Enoch Kent; Part 2 – A Tribute to Django Reinhardt.

--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 16, 2026


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/75390.html

Jay Linden- Coming Through
Under the Radar (Jay Linden)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Circle of Friends
Marblehead Morning – Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl: 50 Years in Harmony (Daring)
Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Walking in the Rain
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- West Cork Hills
Hardscrabble Hope (Distant Whisper Music)
Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Camp Hambone
Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch
- Joshua (Rough Night in Jericho)
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days 
Journey Home (Red House)
Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- (Can I) Come Across to You
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)
Bruce Murdoch- I’m at the Mercy of Your Smile
Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Le Vent du Nord- La Lettre
Voisinages (La Compagnie du Nord)
Satellite Birdhouse- Some Kind of Armour
Some Kind of Armour – single (Satellite Birdhouse)

Irish Millie- So Gone
Grace (Irish Millie)
Abigail Lapell- Sing a Rainbow
Shadow Child (Outside Music)
Sultans of String- A Place to Call Home
Symphony (Sultans of String)
Moonfruits- Carousel
Salt (Co-Op)

Hank Alrich- Don’t You Listen to That Man
Broken River (Walkinay Music Media)

Tom Chapin, John Forster & Friends- No Kings, No Kings
No Kings, No Kings – single (Ditties & Diatribes)

Tom Chapin & John Forster’s friends singing on No Kings,  No Kings include Abigail Chapin, Adam Falcon, Christine Lavin, David Amram, Guy Davis, Jessica Craven, Jessica Fishenfeld, John McCutcheon, Jon Cobert, Judy Collins, Lily Chapin, Michael Mark, Noel Paul Stookey, Reggie Harris, Shirley Crabbe & The Nyack Community Choir.

Hannah & Nathan- Little Bird
Love and Labour (Just Right Music)
Mary Gick- Waltz for Shelagh
Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)
Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers- Cornbread and Butterbeans
Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright (AMCTR)
Tony Rice- Banks of the Ohio
Tony Rice (Craft)

ES Pearl aka Ed Snodderly- Coming Down This Road
Baggage Flies Free (Majestic/Need to Know Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Follow That Road 
Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Into the Wild
Mount Olive (Frontera)
Tracy Grammer- Blue Wing
Book of Sparrows (Tracy Grammer)
Nanci Griffith & Ian Tyson- Canadian Whiskey
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Katy Moffatt- Amelia’s Railroad Flat
The Evangaline Hotel (Philo)

Nani Vazana- No Kero Madre (No Mother I Don’t Want)
Ke Haber (Noam Vazana) 
Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things 
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Bobby Dove- Dreamt I Met John Prine
Fortune Teller (New Motor)
John Prine- Egg & Daughter Night, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)
The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy)

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics- Forty Year Freylekhs
We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

The Klezmatics featuring Sofia Rei- Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)
We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)
Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2017)

The David Amram Quintet- Talking Subway
David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy)
Janis Ian- I Hear You Sing Again
From Me to You: Live in Bremen 2004 (MIG)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Story of Isaac
Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)
Sariyah Idan- Dance Me to the End of Love
Live in Berlin (Sariyah Idan)
Leonard Cohen- You Got Me Singing
Popular Problems (Columbia)
NEeMA- Sidewalk
Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Corrina, Corrina
Night Drive (Snow Goose Songs)
Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Eleanor Ellis, William Lee Ellis & Andy Cohen- Memphis Minnie and Me
Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard (Riverlark Music)
Todd Albright- Death of Ella Speed
Blues for Dexter Linwood (Misfortune)
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band- Wild About My Lovin’
Time (Resonatin’/Thirty Tigers)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka
- Welcome Home
unentitled (Red House)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 13. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 12, 2026: Klezmer Tunes and (Mostly) Yiddish Songs


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.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/75320.html

Theme: Klezmer Tunes and (Mostly) Yiddish Songs.

Klezmer musicians in Ukraine, circa 1925

Schmaltz & Pepper
- Stirring the Pot
Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Yiddish Meydl
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)
Shtreiml- Sirba Amen Sela
Har Meron (I.J. Rosenblatt)
Abby Rosenblatt- Mayn Rue Platz
What’s New Bobenyu (Abigail Rosenblatt)
Jeff Warschauer- A Slow Hora for Those Who Wait for Freedom
The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar & Mandolin (Omega)
Honey Novick- Di Mezinke Oysgegebn
Rising Towards the Seraphim (Honey Novick)
Beyond the Pale- Roumanian Fantasy
Routes (Borealis)
Shelley Posen- Sheyne Punim
Manna (Well Done Music)

Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band- Golem Nights
Sweet Return (Flying Bulgar Recordings)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Yeder Eyner Veys (Everybody Knows)
The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik) 

The Klezmatics featuring Janis Siegel- Ich Ken Nit Zogn Vitsn (I Can’t Tell Jokes)
We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)
Roger Davidson & The Frank London Klezmer Orchestra- Dance of the Five Olives
Villages of Old (Soundbrush)
Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic- Dire-Gelt (The Rent)
Tshiribim (Kakafon)
Brave Old World- The Band
Blood Oranges (Red House)
The Klezmer Conservatory Band- Tsatske Kazatske
A Touch of Klez! (Vanguard)

Alice Zawadzki- Karlovke
Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)
Aviva Chernick & Payadora Tango Ensemble- Silent Tears 
Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys- Zaydn’s Tants
2nd Avenue Square Dance (Traditional Crossroads)
Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)
Theodore Bikel- Yossel der Klezmer
Theodore Bikel Sings Yiddish Theatre & Folk Songs (Elekta)
The Klezmorim- Af Shabes in Vilna
First Recordings 1976-78 (Arhoolie)
Nikitov- A Glezele Yash
Vanderlust (Chamsa)
Metropolitan Klezmer- Metropolitan Raisins
Yiddish for Travelers (Rhythm Media)
Sasha Lurje & Lorin Sklamberg- A idisher kvartet 
Jac Weinstein’s Helsinki Yiddish Cabaret (Global Music Centre)
Michael Winograd- Tipsy
Michael Winograd Plays Tanz! Live in New York City (Borscht Beat)

Isle of Klezbos- Abi Gezunt: Molly’s Cautionary Tale
Yiddish Silver Screen (Rhythm Media)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Judy Collins.

--Mike Regenstreif