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.

Friday, March 20, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 24, 2026: Remembering Paul Geremia, Roy Book Binder, John Hammond, Dolores Keane and Country Joe McDonald

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, March 17, 2026

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 21, 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) ...

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 17, 2026: St. Patrick's Day

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, March 4, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 10, 2026: Songs of The Beatles

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, February 25, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 3, 2026: The Water Lily and Other Song/Poems of Henry Lawson

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, February 19, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 24, 2026: The Legacy of Lead Belly

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, February 18, 2026

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 21, 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) ...

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 17, 2026: A Mardi Gras Day Tribute to Louis Prima

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, February 5, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 10, 2026: Songs of – or inspired by – the Civil Rights Movement

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, January 29, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 3, 2026: A Tribute to Jackie Washington

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, January 24, 2026

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 27, 2026: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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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