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Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! This week, I'll be paying a reflective tribute in song to the United States of America on the occasion of its 250th birthday. From patriotic anthems to musical ries of protest, it promises to be an interesting show. We'll hear from Joni Mitchell, Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel and Phil Oches, as well as some of our usual mix of Folk and Celtic music. It'll be better than the Great American State Fair, that's for sure!

Sara Hillis here, eh, to tell you aboot this week's episode of Come by the Hills, which is gunna be beauty, because we're celebrating Canada as we do every year around the date of Canada Day, which is July 1. I'll be playing songs filled with Canadian place names, Canadian history, interesting Canadian figures and of course lots of songs by Canadian artists! So, don't take off, eh, because wherever you are, if you tune into the show, you'll be in the great white (because of all the snow and the polar bears of course) north, where still that mighty moose wanders at will and all that!

Hello! Sara Hillis here with some unfortunate news. Due to a raging sinus-related illness that is threatening to melt my face off, there will be no SaraSmiles on Monday. I hope to be back with you for Tuesdays' show, but I will keep you posted. Thank you for your patience.

Greetings! Sara Hillis here to let you know what's happening on this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! I've got another blast from the past for you, this time from June 22, 2025. Today, June 21, is National Indigenous People's Day, and on the nearest Sunday to that date, I like to play some songs from indigenous artists and about indigenous themes. And, Canada being the complex place that it is, this Sunday also falls close to Fete Nationale in Quebec, which is a celebration of Quebec history and culture.

Hello! Sara Hillis here once again to let you know that we are celebrating a very special birthday this week on Come by the Hills, and no, there will not be any ultimate fighting going on. Due to some family-type celebrations, I've got another show from the archives, this time from June 13, 2021, which was the eve of of listener Marcia's birthday. So, by a simple process of deductive reasoning, we can see that Sunday, June 14, 2026, is actually Marcia's current birthday, and that's a better birthday to celebrate than that of a certain orange guy.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know what's on tap for the next couple of episodes of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show, here on Mushroom FM! This Sunday we begin a two-week look back at a couple of shows from the archives, not only because I happen to have two very busy weekends coming up, but also because we are approaching the show's tenth anniversary later in the summer, and I thought it might be nice to dig a little deeper into our past.

Hello! Sara Hillis popping in early again this week because I'm so excited to tell you about this coming Sunday's edition of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show, on Mushroom FM! It's time once again for our annual tribute to Stan Rogers. I think of this show as the one that really put Come by the Hills on the map when I first did a version of it in 2017. It struck a chord with so many people that I decided to do it every year since. This will be the tenth year, and I hope you'll join me!

Hello! Sara Hillis here, just popping round to let you know that this Sunday's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic musis show on Mushroom FM, will be an archival episode from May 25, 2025. I hope you'll enjoy it!

Catch Come by the Hills on Mushroom FM on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern!

Greetings! Sara Hillis here to let you know about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on MushroomFM! First and most important to note, the show is live this week, just like it's supposed to be! I've got songs about mothers in honour of North American Mother's Day, which is always the second Sunday in May, as well as new music from Emily Portman's recently-released album called Dominion of Spells!

The first of May, otherwise known as May Day, might be the perfect holiday for Come by the Hills, as it is both a celebration of fertility and life as well as a celebration of workers' rights around the world, thus bridging the two major types of music featured on the show: music from the Celtic lands as well as music firmly rooted in union and worker culture. This week, I have a May Day episode for you from 2025, so if you hear discussions of May the Fourth, don't freak out. It's just a rerun.