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, November 28, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 3, 2024: Top 10 for 2024

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, November 27, 2024

Top 10 for 2024

Here are my picks for the Top 10 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2024 . I started with a list of about 30 superb albums released betw...

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 30, 2024

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, November 20, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 26, 2024: Immigration, Part 2

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, November 13, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 19, 2024: Immigration, Part 1 – The Man from God Knows Where

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, November 6, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 12, 2024: Remembering Barbara Dane (1927-2024)

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, November 1, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 5, 2024: Addendums to Past Themes

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, October 29, 2024

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 2, 2024

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) ...

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 29, 2024: Stars & Skies

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

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About Me

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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