Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 16, 2025: A Hanukkah Concert with Nefesh Mountain and More Songs for the Holiday

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/595/73256.html

Theme: A Hanukkah Concert with Nefesh Mountain and More Songs for the Holiday.

The airdate for this show falls on the second of the 8-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

During Nefesh Mountain’s Hannukah concert, you will not hear any applause because the concert was recorded during Hannukah on December 12, 2020, without a live audience, at the height of the Covid pandemic.

Nefesh Mountain- Hanukkah’s Flame

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Kitchen Girl

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Hanukkah Dance

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Eretz’s Reel

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- The Narrow Bridge

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- I’ve Endured

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Donna Donna

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Calum Sgaire/You Can Close Your Eyes

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- The Great Circle Trail/Oseh Shalom

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Banjo Medley: Ma’oz Tzur/ Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- Happy Joyous Hanukkah

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

Nefesh Mountain- I Shall Be Released

Live from Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (Eden Sky)

The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown- The Many and the Few

Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

Shelley Posen with Finest Kind- On Chanukah 

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Short Sisters- My Candles 

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

Finjan- Haneros Haluli

Dancing on Water (Rounder)

Shelley Posen- The La-La-Latke Song 

Manna (Well Done Music)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Drei Dreidl

Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)

Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars featuring Michael “Meyshke” Alpet & Sarah Gordon- Topz (Sevivon)

Chronika (Borscht Beat) 

SONiA disappear fear- Light in You

By My Silence (Disappear)

Next week: A Christmas Concert with Odetta and More Songs for the Holiday.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 14, 2019

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/44679.html

Terri Hendrix- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Talk to a Human: Project 5.3 (Wilory)

I was deeply saddened by the passing of Mitch Podolak on August 25. I first met Mitch in June 1974 and he told me he was starting a folk festival in Winnipeg. I didn't go to the first Winnipeg Folk Festival that summer but I was there many times through the 1970s and ‘80s. I shared friendship, many a meal, much music, and the occasional fierce argument with Mitch in many places over the years. His influence – like that of Estelle Klein – is felt every time I plan a radio show. Perhaps the most excited I ever saw Mitch at the Winnipeg Folk Festival was when Pete Seeger sang “L’Internationale.”

Pete Seeger- L’Internationale

Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Duhks- Pretty Boy Floyd/Stoney Point

Your Daughters & Your Sons (Sugar Hill)

The Small Glories- Winnipeg

Assiniboine & the Red (Red House)

Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Martin Simpson performs Sunday, October 6, 8 pm, at Rosemount Hall, 41 Rosemount Avenue. Visit www.oldsod.ca for tickets or information.

Martin Simpson- Kimbie

Rooted (Topic)

Katie Dahl- Anna Lee

Wildwood (Leaky Boat)

Andy Antipin w/Sharon Katz & Mara Levine- I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table

I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table (Andy Atipin)

Blue Flame String Band- Blues Stay Away from Me

Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish)

Nefesh Mountain performs Thursday, September 19 at Kehillat Beth Israel synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue. They’ll be doing a family concert at 5:30 pm and an adult-focused all-ages concert at 7 pm. Call 613-728-3501 or visit https://kehillatbethisrael.shulcloud.com/form/nefesh-mountain.html for more info or tickets.

Nefesh Mountain- Halleluyah

Beneath the Open Sky (Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff)

Lynn Miles performs Saturday, September 21 at the Westboro Masonic Hall, 430 Churchill Avenue North. Visit www.rasputins.org for more info or tickets.

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Old Man Luedecke performs Thursday, October 10 at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/23023 for more info or tickets.

Old Man Luedecke- Easy Money

Easy Money (True North)

Rob Lutes performs Thursday, October 24 at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21896 for more info or tickets.

Rob Lutes- Believe in Something

Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)

Tom Russell- Red Velvet

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Ian & Sylvia- Summer Wages

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Kim Wallach- The Cowboy and the Umbrella

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Extended Feature: Songs and Tunes of Bruce Cockburn. The next 15 songs and tunes were written by Bruce Cockburn.

Bruce Cockburn- Musical Friends

Bruce Cockburn (True North)

Teresa Ennis- Going to the Country

Space (BeaverBank Empire)

Tom Rush- One Day I Walk

Ladies Love Outlaws (Columbia)

Claire Lynch- All the Diamonds in the World

North By South (Compass)

Bruce Cockburn- Sweetness and Light

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Slice O Life: Live Solo (True North)

Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers- Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long

En Duo (Justin Time)

David Wiffen- Up on the Hillside

Coast to Coast Fever (EMI)

Maria Muldaur- Southland of the Heart

Southland of the Heart (Telarc)

Bruce Cockburn- Blind Willie

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Bruce Cockburn- Forty Years in the Wilderness

Bone On Bone (True North)

Judy Collins- Pacing the Cage

Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)

Salamander Crossing- Child of the Wind

Henry Street – A Retrospective (Signature Sounds)

Grace Griffith- Wondering Where the Lions Are

Minstrel Song (Blix Street)

Bruce Cockburn- Bardo Rush

Crowing Ignites (True North)

“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” starring Ben Caplan, returns to the Babs Asper Theatre at the National Arts Centre from October 17-27. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21514 for more information.

Ben Caplan- Traveller’s Curse

Old Stock (Rhyme and Reason)

Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva & Company- Welcome to Amerike: Vot can you makh

Indecent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Yellow Sound Label)

Sharon Goldman- Tuesday Morning Sun

Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)

Susan Werner- What He Said in Jackson Square

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Lisa Bastoni- Dogs of New Orleans

How We Want to Live (Sweet Ondine Music)

Christine Lavin & The Calithumpians- The Liar Tweets Tonight

The Best of Christine Lavin (Christine Lavin)

The Four Bitchin' Babes w/Mary Travers- What Was I Thinking

The Best of Christine Lavin (Christine Lavin)

Tim Grimm- Too Hard Drivin’

Heart Land Again (Vault)

Shelley Posen- Back at Bub’s

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 12.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 17, 2019

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/44333.html

Shelley Posen- Ontario Moon

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Michael Peter Smith- I Sought the Landlord

Fifteen Songs from Moby Dick (Michael Peter Smith)

Michael Peter Smith- Old Thunder

Fifteen Songs from Moby Dick (Michael Peter Smith)

Michael Peter Smith- Deeper Wonders Than the Waves

Fifteen Songs from Moby Dick (Michael Peter Smith)

The Rix- Hudson Whalers

Steering Pete’s Course: Maritime Songs from the Seeger Songbag (The Rix)

Sharon Goldman- Migration

Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)

Kim Wallach- Refugee’s Lullaby

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

SONiA disappear fear- A Voice for Nudem Durak

By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Ken Tizzard- My Father’s Ghost

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Ken Tizzard)

Ray Harris- Margaret’s Waltz

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Jon Brooks- Small

Moth Nor Rust II (Fallen Tree Records)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Sadie

Delia’s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death (Marc Nerenberg)

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur- Louis Collins (Angels Laid Him Away)

Penny’s Farm (Kingswood)

Dom Flemons- One Dollar Bill

Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jim Ringer- Old Bill Pickett

Waitin’ for the Hard Times to Go (Folk-Legacy)

Nefesh Mountain- I Want to Hear Somebody Pray

Beneath the Open Sky (Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff)

April Verch- Durham’s Bull

Once a Day (Slab Town)

Extended Feature: Songs of The Carter Family – the next 16 songs were recorded by the original Carter Family between 1927 and 1941.

The Carter Family- Single Girl, Married Girl

Anchored in Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1927-1928 (Rounder)

Charlie Haden featuring Rosanne Cash- Wildwood Flower

Rambling Boy (Decca)

Ian & Sylvia- Keep on the Sunny Side

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole- John Hardy
5 Strings Attached with No Backing (Merriweather)

The Carter Family (1927)

The Carter Family- Wabash Cannonball

When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1929-1930 (Rounder)

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Sowin’ on the Mountain

Common Chords (Common Chords Records)

Tim Grimm- Carter’s Blues

Heart Land Again (Vault)

Katie Moore & Andrew Horton- Lover’s Return

Six More Miles (Katie Moore)

The Carter Family- March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away

Longing for Old Virginia: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1934 (Rounder)

Lucinda Williams- Little Darling Pal of Mine

Ramblin’ (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- Bear Creek Blues

Songs of the Carter Family (Appleseed)

Sue Foley- Cannonball Blues

The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)

The Carter Family- Lonesome Homesick Blues

Last Sessions: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1934-1941 (Rounder)

Andy Hedges- Lonesome Pine Special

Shadow of a Cowboy (Andy Hedges)

Deborah Holland- Worried Man Blues

The Panic is On (Gadfly)

Ian & Sylvia- Will the Circle Be Unbroken

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Joan Baez- Joe Hill

One Day at a Time (Vanguard)

Canned Heat- Going Up the Country

The Best of Canned Heat (EMI)

Arlo Guthrie- Coming into Los Angeles

Tales of ’69 (Rising Son)

Richie Havens- Freedom

Résumé: The Best of Richie Havens (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell- Woodstock

Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise)

Shelley Posen- Night Nurse

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Michael Jerome Browne & Roxane Potvin- Remember When

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Morning Sun

Morning Sun (Electro-Fi)

Tom Russell- When the Road Gets Rough

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Leeroy Stagger- Hey Hey! (For Gord)

Strange Path (True North)

Shelley Posen- The Best Song Ever Written

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Bruce Cockburn- The Groan

Crowing Ignites (True North)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 14.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif