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

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/595/70878.html

Theme: Songs for Canada Day.

Stan Rogers- Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Maria Dunn- In the Shadow of the Rockies/As I Walk Through Canada

We Were Good People (Distant Whisper)

James Keelaghan- My Skies

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Bonnie Dobson- Peter Amberley

Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)

Finest Kind- The Maple Leaf Forever

Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle Music)

Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four (lead vocal: Kate McGarrigle)- The Log Driver’s Waltz

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

Gordon Lightfoot- Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Leonard Cohen- Suzanne

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Steel Rail- Wooden Ships

River Song (Crossties)

Jesse Winchester- I Wave Bye Bye

Gentleman of Leisure (Sugar Hill)

Connie Kaldor- Wood River

Wood River (Coyote Entertainment)

Shelley Posen- Canoeing My Troubles Away

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)

Durham County Poets & Michael Jerome Browne- Diamonds on the Water

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Yonder Hill- Northern Lights

Yonder Hill (Yonder Hill)

Notre Dame de Grass- New Canada Road

New Canada Road (Notre Dame de Grass)

Willie Dunn- Louis Riel

Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)

Amanda Rheaume- Unforgettable

The Truth We Hold (Ishkõdé)

Prairie Comeau- Un Canadien errant

L’emprunt(e) (La Compagnie du Nord)

Chris Rawlings- Song of the Old Bush Pilot

Northern Spirits (Cooking Fat Music)

David Bradstreet- The Land Beyond

Hindsight (David Bradstreet)

Night Sun- A Canadian Song

Drive (Borealis)

Next week: Peggy Seeger at 90.

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday August 27, 2022

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). 

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

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

This particular show is now available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/57395.html

Jesse Winchester- How Far to the Horizon

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Willie Dunn- The Dreamer

Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)

Dennis O’Toole- Willie on the Wind

Lone Gunman at the Assassin’s Hotel (Dennis O’Toole)

Sylvia Tyson- Donegal Tavern

River Road & Other Songs (Outside Music)

Brendan Nolan- Connemara Morn

Where Do I Go From Here (Ould Sagosha)

Doug McArthur- Hills of Connemara

The Horses of the Sea: A Personal Exploration of Ireland (dougimac.com)

Maria Dunn- Love Carries Me

Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

OXLIP- All My Trials

Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (World Peach)

Bob Stark- Some Little Sign

Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Matapedia

Matapedia (Hannibal)

Caitlin Hanford- Red Clay Halo

Bluer Skies (Denon)

Noah Zacharin- One Time in 20

A Startle of Wings (Noah Zacharin)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Trying to Get to You

It’s Wonderful (SASB)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Fearless Heart

Road (Lynn Miles)

Jay Linden- August Night

Satchel (Jay Linden)

Dave Clarke- Lucinda

The Healing Garden (Crossties)

The rest of the show features songs written by Canadian songwriters but performed by non-Canadian artists.

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days (Bruce Murdoch)

Journey Home (Red House)

Nanci Griffith- Ten Degrees and Colder (Gordon Lightfoot)

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Norah Jones- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino (Kate McGarrigle)

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

June Tabor- Heart Like a Wheel (Anna McGarrigle)

At the Wood’s Heart (Topic)

Judy Collins- The Dealer (Down and Losin’) (Bob Ruzicka)

True Stories and Other Dreams (Elektra)

Tom Russell- Sam Bonnifield’s Saloon (Ian Tyson)

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

Rosalie Sorrels- Trucker’s Café (Sylvia Tyson)

Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)

John Gorka- Lock-keeper (Stan Rogers)

Writing in the Margins (Red House)

Joe Jencks- Can You Blame the Poor Miner (Maria Dunn)

The Coming of the Years (Turtle Bear Music)

Grace Griffith- Wondering Where the Lions Are (Bruce Cockburn)

Minstrel Song (Blix Street)

Claudia Schmidt- Having a Drink with Jane (Shelley Posen)

Live at the Dakota (Pragmavision Publishing)

Dave Van Ronk- Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell)

…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

William Bell- All of Your Stories (Jesse Winchester)

This is Where I Live (Stax)

SONiA disappear fear- Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

By My Silence (Disappear)

Priscilla Herdman- Wood River (Connie Kaldor)

Darkness Into Light (Flying Fish)

I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces next on September 17. I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on September 10.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 16, 2022: It's Lake Time

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57296.html

Theme: It’s Lake Time.

All the songs on this show have something or other to do with lakes.

Tim Grimm- The Lake
The Turning Point (Cavalier Recordings)

Willie Dunn & Mike Regenstreif (2009)

Shelley Posen- When I First Stepped in a Canoe

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)
Connie Kaldor- Canoe Song
Wood River (Coyote)
Ball & Chain- Loon on the Lake
Bare Bones (Ball & Chain)
Willie Dunn- Wounded Lake
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)

Martin Simpson- Lakes of Champlain
Prodigal Son (Compass)
Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik- The Alphabet Song of Lake Champlain
Old & New Songs of Lake Champlain (Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik)

Mike Regenstreif, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop (2014)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- Au Bord de Lac Bijou
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Happy Traum- Lakes of Pontchartrain
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
Nanci Griffith- Banks of the Pontchartrain
The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Gordon Lightfoot- Christian Island (Georgian Bay)
Don Quixote (Reprise)
Stan Rogers- White Squall
From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Deborah Robins- The Keweenaw Light
Home Fires (Zippety Whippet)
Ian Tamblyn- Woodsmoke and Oranges
Through the Years [’76-‘92] (North Track)
Lee Murdock- Phantom Ships That Pass in the Night
The Lost Lake Sailors (Depot)

Huxtable, Christensen & Hood- Lake George 1922
Wallflowers (Philo)
David Woodhead- Summers at Rangeley Lake
Sweets and Conundrums (Woodhead Music)
Michael Jerling- Fishtrap Lake
Music Here Tonight (Fool’s Hill Music)
Christopher Shaw- North to Long Lake
Adirondack Serenade (Twining Tree)
Night Sun- This Lake
Home (Night Sun)

Bruce Cockburn- Deep Lake
Speechless: The Instrumental Bruce Cockburn (True North)

Next week: Music of My Montreal.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 10, 2021

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 live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/51567.html

Note: I was subbing for Stephen Neale on this edition of Saturday Morning. I will be back in my regular Saturday Morning slot on April 24. Steve should be back in his next slot in the rotation on May 8.

The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem- Early Morning Rain
The Bold Fenian Men (Columbia)

Marc Nerenberg- I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground
On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)
Hannah Shira Naiman- Train On the Island
Know the Mountain (Merriweather)
Joachim Cooder- Over That Road I’m Bound to Go
Over That Road I’m Bound: The Songs of Uncle Dave Macon (Nonesuch)

Reggie Harris- My Working Bones
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Crys Matthews- Exactly Where You Are
Changemakers (Crys Matthews)
Tret Fure- Monuments
Stone by Stone (Tomboy girl Records)
Noel Paul Stookey- In These Times
Just Causes (Neworld)
Tim Grimm- A Dream
Gone (Vault)

Michael J. Miles- Mississippi Overture
Mississippi River Suite/Which Side Are You On? (Right Turn On Red Music)
Leon Bibb- Ol’ Man River
Praising Peace: A Tribute to Paul Robeson (Stony Plain)
Michael J. Miles featuring Zahra Glenda Baker- Mississippi River Suite, Part 1
Mississippi River Suite/Which Side Are You On? (Right Turn On Red Music)
Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Jimmy Rushing- River Stay ‘Way From My Door
Brubeck & Rushing (Columbia)
Michael J. Miles featuring Zahra Glenda Baker- Mississippi River Suite, Part 2
Mississippi River Suite/Which Side Are You On? (Right Turn On Red Music)
Tom Russell & Iris DeMent- Big Water
The Long Way Around (HighTone)

Anne Hills- Golden Arms
Accidental August (Hand & Heart Music)
Katie Oates- Here in Gastonia
We Go On: Si Kahn’s Songs of Hope in Hard Times (Hollow Reed Arts Recordings)
Dave Clarke- A Thousand Days Like This
The Healing Garden (Crossties)
Steel Rail- The Last Time
Coming Home (Crossties)

Peggy Seeger- How I Long for Peace
First Farewell (Red Grape Music)
Frank London with Cantor Yaakov 'Yanky' Lemmer- Oseh Shalom
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)
Christopher Mark Jones- Call Back Your Soldiers
Looking for the Light (Small Batch Music)
Eliza Gilkyson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Iris DeMent- Peace Call
Land of Milk and Honey (Red House)
Reggie Harris- On Solid Ground
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Dave Alvin- Bus Station
King of California (HighTone)
David Francey- Ankle Tattoo
The Waking Hour (Jericho Beach Music)
Michael Jerome Browne- Somebody Have Mercy
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Maria Dunn- Waltzing with the Angels
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)
Willie Dunn- Peruvian Dream (Part 1)
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
Anna Elizabeth Laube- Jardim da Estrela
Annamania (Continental Song City)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004) photo: Ron Petronko

David Amram & Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Going North
No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Last Forever- Buddy’s Blues
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Wynton Marsalis & Catherine Russell- Buddy’s Horn
Bolden: Music from the Original Soundtrack (Blue Engine)
Bill Morrissey- Buddy Bolden’s Blues
Something I Saw or Thought I Saw (Philo)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- I Like You Best of All
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Annabelle Chvostek- Belleville rendez-vous
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)
The Slowlinks- I Ain’t Got Nobody
Stay With Me Awhile (weewerk)
Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- Me, Myself and I
I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
Le Chat Mort- Bye Bye Baby Bye
Roses (Le Chat Mort)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Rachelle Garniez- Don’t You Know
Gone to Glory (StorySound)
Laura Smith- I’m a Beauty
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

David Broza- Night Dawn (Silver Dollar)
Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S-Curve)
Bob Jensen- Colorado Girl
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber- If I Needed You
The Family Album (Outside)
Townes Van Zandt- Snowin’ On Raton
At My Window (Sugar Hill)
Orit Shimoni- Song for Townes
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Shtreiml- Sirba Amen Sela
Har Meron (I.J. Rosenblatt)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 24. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 27, 2021

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 live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/51381.html

 

Michael Johnathon- Sunday Morning
The Painter (PoetMan)

Jesse Winchester- I Wave Bye Bye
Gentleman of Leisure (Sugar Hill)
Steel Rail- Flow River Flow
Coming Home (Crossties)
Dave Clarke- Until We Meet Again
The Healing Garden (Crossties)
Chris Rawlings & Anne Lederman- I Want to Hear You Sing
A Whistle, a Tune, a Song and a Dance (Cooking Fat Music)

Liz Simmons- Night in the City
Poets (Morgana Music)
Becky Buller- Woodstock
Distance and Time (Dark Shadow Recording)
Joni Mitchell- Born to Take the Highway
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Alice Howe- A Case of You
A Case of You – single (Alice Howe)
Lisa Jeanette- Darling of the Muses
Jellyfish on the Moon (Lisa Jeanette Music)

Michael Smith- The Dutchman
Such Things are Finely Done (Tales from the Tavern)
Eric Taylor- Visitors from Indiana
Eric Taylor (Watermelon)
David Olney- Jerusalem Tomorrow
The Stone (Deadbeet)
Tim Grimm- Dreaming of King Lear
Gone (Vault)

Magpie- Which Side Are You On?
When We Stand Together (Longtail Records)
Michael J. Miles featuring Zahra Glenda Baker- Which Side Are You On? Dilemma
Mississippi River Suite/Which Side Are You On? (Right Turn On Red Music)
Ellis Paul- $20 Bill (For George Floyd)
Ellis Paul’s Traveling Medicine Show Vol. 1 (Rosella)
Michael J. Miles featuring Zahra Glenda Baker- Which Side Are You On? Enough
Mississippi River Suite/Which Side Are You On? (Right Turn On Red Music)
Marc Nerenberg- Ain’t Gonna Study War No More (Down By the Riverside)
Times Ain’t Nuthin’ Like They Used to Be (Marc Nerenberg)

New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers- Blues for Yesterday
Volume 2 (Stony Plain)
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Careless Love
Blues Stories (Big City Blues)
Vince Halfhide- Memphis Rounder
Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)
Katie Oates- Bury Me On Beale Street
We Go On: Si Kahn’s Songs of Hope in Hard Times (Hollow Reed Arts Recordings)
Junior Wells- Cha Cha Cha in Blue
Junior’s Wails: Singles As & Bs 1953-1961 (Jasmine)

Maggie & Terre Roche- Jill of All Trades
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)
Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche- Jane
I Can Still Hear You (StorySound)
Laura Smith- One Woman
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)
Jane Voss- Free at Last (Let Me Find My Wings)
Farther Down the Road (Ripple)

Anne Hills- Acquainted with the Night
Accidental August (Hand & Heart Music)
Dulcie Taylor- First Kiss
Rediscovered (Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings)
Annabelle Chvostek- Je t’ai vue hier soir (I Saw You Last Night)
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)
Rod Abernethy- Just Around the Corner
Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore (Songs From Downstairs Records)

Willie Dunn- The Ballad of Crowfoot
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)

Frank London with Karim Sulayman- Amore en
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)
Frank London with Karim Sulayman & Cantor Seta Kundish- O dolcezz’amarissime
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)
Frank London with Cantor Seta Kundish – Minutn fun bitokhn
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)
Bob Jensen- The Partisan
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

Rod MacDonald- In Every Dream
Boulevard (Blue Flute Music)
John Gorka- I Can’t Do Crazy (Anymore)
Willie Nile Uncovered (Paradiddle)
Anna Elizabeth Laube- Sweet Boy from Minnesota
Annamania (Continental Song City)
Reid Jamieson- Everyday People
Songs of 69 (Reid Jamieson)

Jimmy Yancey- Yancey Stomp
Blues & Boogie (Cherry Red)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 24. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Apple Hollow Music Fest

The Apple Hollow Music Fest in Franklin Centre, QC is next up on my folk festival agenda. Franklin Centre is in the Chateauguay Valley near the New York border about an hour, as the car drives, from Montreal.

This is Year 2 for Apple Hollow, and it’s a really nice little festival put together by Adrien Doucette, who was previously the artistic director of the Branches & Roots Festival in Ormstown. Last year’s Apple Hollow was a great day in the country filled with some excellent music and I’m anticipating an even better festival this year.

The festival begins Friday, July 17, with an open stage jam session and then continues all afternoon and evening Saturday, July 18, with a very impressive line-up that's worthy of a much bigger festival and that includes Jesse Winchester, Bruce Murdoch, Penny Lang and many more. A whole incredible day with lots of great artists for $15 – you’d usually have to pay three times that just to see Jesse on his own.

I’ve always felt that workshops are the real heart and soul of a folk festival and Apple Hollow’s schedule includes an incredible workshop – The Montreal Folk Reunion – that I wouldn’t want to miss even if I wasn’t hosting it. Imagine, Jesse Winchester, Bruce Murdoch, Penny Lang, Willie Dunn, Ron Bankley and me, all on stage together with stories and songs that recall the fabled days of the Montreal folk scene of the 1960s and ‘70s (and, no doubt, some new songs and stories too).

Be sure and say “hi” at Apple Hollow.
--Mike Regenstreif