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Greetings! Once again, it's time for our annual Stan Rogers special on Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show. This year is especially poignant, as we've reached another milestone since his death on June 2nd, 1983, as this year marks the 40th anniversary of that sudden and sad event. So, in true Canadian folky fashion, we will be playing three hours of Stan's music with exerpts from a documentary called "One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers." We'll also have a radio play that he worked on for the CBC as part of the show.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to give you the straight (well, more like winding and meandering) goods on what's coming up on this week's edition of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show! Once again I've got an eclectic collection of music for you, with songs about hard times, time in general, rovers, journeys, roads, and even a few songs about lads in honour of Aladdin the guide dog's tenth birthday which is coming up on Sunday, May 21. I promise it'll be a fun time, and you never know what you're going to hear next. There's even a bit of "Me Music" again this week!

Greetings and salutations! Sara Hillis here, just popping round to say that it'll soon be time for another epic episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM. Once again, I've got three hours of fantastic musical selections for you, and finally, after a bit of a break, there will be a "Me Music" feature in the first hour of the show.

Hello! I had hoped to share this episode on MixCloud, but due to the fact that this Gordon Lightfoot tribute seemingly has too many tracks by the same artist--gee, I wonder why?--it was restricted due to licensing. So, I'm passing along this Dropbox link. I'm doing it publicly because of the special nature of this episode.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lotxyvse6kzq4hf/Come%20by%20the%20Hills%20May%...

On Monday, May 1, 2023, we lost one of the greats of Canadian Folk and Pop music, Gordon Lightfoot. In fact, even to classify his music is a bit difficult. It was distinctly his own, and yet it was also everyone's. It has formed some of the soundtrack to many people's lives including mine, and the more of it I've heard over the years, the more I've come to view Lightfoot as a rarely gifted songsmith of the first order. Thus, I couldn't let this week pass without devoting an episode of Come by the Hills to this music.

Hello! Yes, it's time once again for the Come by the Hills May Day celebrations. No, we won't be marching in the streets for workers' rights, but we will be having songs about May-time, May poles, Cuckoos and many other things, and the best news of all is that the show will be presented live this week! I am likely dooming myself to technical failures by sayin this, but I think I have whatever was wrong with my technology resolved, and this without my doing much of anything at all, which is rather scary. The hope is that we will connect on time for the beginning of the show.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to tell you that another exciting edition of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic Music show is in the offing! Today, I've got songs in honour of this planet we call earth. There are songs about trees, songs about whales (and even some whale music,) songs about rivers and green banks, and many songs about how humans have affected or have been affected by the cycles of nature. I hope you'll enjoy this show. I think there's a little something for everyone. Just a heads-up that the show isn't live this week.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to tell you that this week's episode of Come by the Hills is an encore presentation of an episode from March 26, 2022. It has lots of springish themes and is just generally a fun episode. I hope to be back with you next week, but in the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy this blast from the past. Keep in mind that some promos and such will be out of date, but otherwise, do enjoy the episode!

Catch Come by the Hills on Saturdays at 2:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesdays at 5:00 AM Eastern. However and whenever you listen, enjoy!

So, I got a message from a listener today with a brilliant idea! This listener suggested that we take some time on Sara Smiles to go through the sound track of Jesus Christ Superstar. I've chosen to do this on Western Good Friday, which is tomorrow at the time of this writing. Now, anyone who may find this offensive is free not to listen, and I truly do hope that those who commemorate Christ's Passion on this day will be doing so in all peace and quietness of heart.

Yes, Come by the Hills comes your way again this week and it's a "whatever Sara feels like playing" kind of episode. Of course, you too can contribute to the musical mayhem by requesting something of a Folkish flavour when the show is live on Saturday, or you're always free to just sit back and let me do the driving, as it were. Either way, it's sure to be three hours of truly amazing music.

So, catch Come by the Hills live and in person on Saturday at 2:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern. However and whenever you listen, enjoy!