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.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 8, 2025: Peggy Seeger at 90

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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, June 25, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 1, 2025: Songs for Canada Day

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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, June 20, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 24, 2025: 1965

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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 Ot...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 17, 2025: Music for 88 Keys

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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, June 11, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 14, 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, June 4, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 10, 2025: Dreams

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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, May 28, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 3, 2025: Busking

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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, May 21, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 27, 2025: “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung” with guest Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma

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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, May 14, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 20, 2025: Variations on Hallelujah

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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, May 13, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 17, 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, May 7, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 13, 2025: A Tribute to The Klezmatics

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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, April 30, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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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, April 23, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 29, 2025: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark

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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...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 22, 2025: Songs for Earth Day

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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...
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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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