Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 12, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/61559.html

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Mr. Tambourine Man

Trail Three (Music Road)

In memory of Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)

Sinéad O’Connor- Rivers of Babylon

Theology: Dublin Sessions (Koch)

Kris Kristofferson- Sister Sinéad

Closer to the Bone (New West)

Sinéad O’Connor- The Parting Glass

Sean-Nós Nua (Vanguard)

John Hartford- The Tall Tall Grass

Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Long Hot Summer Days

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Rob Moose- Uncle Bunting (pt 1)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Katie Dahl- Temperance River

Seven Stones (Leaky Boat)

Ed Snodderley- Just Like You River

Chimney Smoke (Need to Know Music)

Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower- I’ve Got the Big River Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Mara Levine- River

Jewels and Harmony (Mara’s Creations)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Cripple Creek

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Shannon Leigh Reynolds- The Piney Wood Hills

Triple Shot (Good Bygone)

Eva Cassidy with The London Symphony Orchestra- Tall Trees in Georgia

I Can Only Be Me (Blix Street)

Penny Lang- Spanish Moss

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Rayna Gellert & Chaim Tannenbaum- Uncle Bunting (pt 2)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Eliza Gilkyson- Sunflowers

Home (Realiza)

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi- Song of Berhomet

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc)

Annie & Rod Capps- Anything but You

Love and Rain (Yellow Room)

The Bombadils- Through and Through

Dear Friend (The Bombadils)

Raye Zaragoza- Bittersweet

Hold That Spirit (Rebel River)

Aleksi Campagne- Prairie Wind

For the Giving/Sans Rien Donner (Aleksi Campagne)

Connie Kaldor- Bigger Than Anywhere Else

Out of the Blue (Coyote)

Hart Rouge- Destination

Beaupré’s Home (Highway 13 Musique)

Al Qahwa- Salma Ya Salama (Peace and Safety)

Weyn Allah (Al Qahwa)

Aviva Chernick- La Serena

La Serena (Aviva Chernick)

Dave Gunning- The Same Storm

The Same Storm (Wee House of Music)

Allison Lupton- Away

Words of Love (Allison Lupton Music)

Rachel Anne Goodman- Waiting for the Rain

California Morning (Coastridge)

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi- Melody from Livonia

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc)

Joy Zimmerman- How Shall We Sing

Where the Light Lives (Cultivate Joy)

Kari Bremnes- Anna Olsen

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Tom Russell- Rider on an Orphan Train

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Kari Bremnes- Anna Olsen’s Letter Home

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Mountain City Four- This Train

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Eric Bibb- Sinner Man

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Bob & Sarah Amos- Wayfaring Stranger

Ever Onward (Bristlecone)

Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- He Ain’t Got Rhythm

I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Road of Stone

Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)

Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble featuring Martha Wainwright- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (Edge Music)

Too Sad for the Public- Uncle Bunting (pt 3)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Teeyum Smith- Crash and Burn

Participating at Last (Teeyum Smith)

Joe Crookston- Blue Light

Nine Becomes One (Chapters 9 & 8) (Milagrito)

Crowes Pasture- If I Should Fall Behind

Don’t Blink (Crowes Pasture)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- I’d Walk a Thousand Miles

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Steve Howell- Dallas Rag

Gallery of Echoes (Out of the Past Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 9. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 30, 2021: Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hannukah and other Hannukah songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons 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 at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/54351.html

Theme: Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hannukah and other Hannukah songs

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

The Klezmatics- Hanukkah’s Flame
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
Shelley Posen- Light One Candle
Manna (Well Done Music)
Vocolot- Ocho Kandelikas
Heart Beat (Oyster Albums)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Maoz Tzur
Shimmering Lights (Arc)

Shelley Posen- Put the Latkes on to Fry
Manna (Well Done Music)

Woody Guthrie- The Many and the Few
Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Akht Kleyne Brider
Shimmering Lights (Arc)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Light One Candle
Around the Campfire (Warner Bros.)

The Klezmatics- Honeyky Hanukkah
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
Yale Strom’s Broken Consort- Khanike, Oi, Khanike
Shimmering Lights (Arc)
SONiA disappear fear- Light in You
By My Silence (Disappear Records)
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- Hanerot Halalu
Voices of Winter (Gadfly)
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with Ruth Ungar Merenda and Laurel Massé- Lights of Chanukah
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Bell
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

Shelley Posen- The La-La-Latke Song
Manna (Well Done Music)
Shelley Posen- My Mother’s Latkes
Manna (Well Done Music)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Gelt
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)
The Klezmer Conservatory Band- The Dreydl Song
Oy Chanukah! (Rounder)
Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Drei Dreidl
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)

Woody Guthrie- Hanukkah Dance
Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Klezmatics- Hanukkah Dance
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah (Jewish Music Group)

Next week: Joni Mitchell at Le Hibou, Ottawa, March 19, 1968

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--Mike Regenstreif

Yale Strom’s Broken Consort – Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Music

YALE STROM’S BROKEN CONSORT

Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Music

Arc Music Productions

yalestrom.com

arcmusic.co.uk

(A version of this review was published in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.)

On Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Music, violinist Yale Strom – a long celebrated innovator in Jewish music – along with singer Elizabeth Schwartz and an ensemble including guitar, oud and string players, offers a fascinating, multilingual musical tour through Hanukkah musical traditions and songs from Jewish cultures around the world.

The album opens with a version of “Maoz Tzur” from the Moroccan tradition featuring some outstanding oud playing by Amos Hoffman that contrasts beautifully with Elizabeth’s vocals and the string ensemble before shifting into a joyous klezmer-style version of “Khanike, Oi, Khanike” with verses sung in both Yiddish and English.

From there, we hear an extended version of “Kita’l Tas,” sung in Ladino and played in the Turkish Sephardic tradition, and “Latkes,” a Yiddish original by Yale based on the traditional Yiddish song “Bulbes” (in the 1960s, “Bulbes” was the template for “Nothing,” one of the best songs by the Fugs). Early in its nine-minute playing time “Latkes” is quite beautiful, as sung by Schwartz, before shifting into an exciting, Roma-influenced romp by guitarist Fred Benedetti, violinist Yale and the other musicians.

Some of other highlights include a jazzy version of “Akht Kleyne Brider” in Yiddish and a beautiful interpretation of the traditional Sephardic song “La Fiesta de la Hanukia” in Ladino.

The album ends with “The Fool Over Yonder,” a new song written by Yale and Elizabeth in English that celebrates both Hannukah and a universal message of tikkun olam.

Most of the pieces on Shimmering Lights are quite long allowing the terrific musicians in Yale Strom’s Broken Consort lots of opportunities to stretch out soulfully. This is my favourite Hanukkah album since the Klezmatics released Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah a dozen years ago.

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–Mike Regenstreif