Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif

Folk-rooted and folk-branched reviews, commentaries, radio playlists and suggestions from veteran music journalist and broadcaster Mike Regenstreif.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 16, 2025: Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 9, 2025: Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Riding in My Car

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 6, 2025

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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) ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 2, 2025: "Crazy Blues" and Other Crazy Songs

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 26, 2025: Songs of August & Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 19, 2025: The Original Sloth Band at 60

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 9, 2025

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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) ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 5, 2025: Songs of Steve Gillette and John Stewart

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 29, 2025: Remembering Robert Resnik

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 22, 2025: Flood Water

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 15, 2025: Blues in the Night

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU , 93.1 FM, in O...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 12, 2025

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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) ...
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Mike Regenstreif
I'm an editor, writer and broadcaster now based in Ottawa who has written about folk and roots music since the 1970s for Sing Out! Magazine and the Montreal Gazette and other Canadian newspapers. My radio show, Folk Roots/Folk Branches, was on CKUT in Montreal from 1994-2007. I now host Stranger Songs (weekly) and am one of the rotating hosts of Saturday Morning (every fourth week) on CKCU in Ottawa where my programming is based on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT. In the 1970s and ‘80s I ran a folk club, the Golem, and produced most of Montreal’s folk-oriented concerts. I also booked tours for Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Priscilla Herdman, Rosalie Sorrels, Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl, Bill Staines, Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick and Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn. In 2014, I was the recipient of the Ottawa Folk Festival's Helen Verger Award for "significant, sustained contributions to folk/roots music in Canada." In 2017, I was one of the inaugural inductees into the Folk DJ Hall of Fame created by Folk Alliance International.
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