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Hello! Sara Hillis here to give you the heads-up on this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM. Due to belated, unexpected and very welcome birthday celebrations for my husband, I'm unable to present the show live this week. Instead, we'll be revisiting the thirtieth anniversary of the year I was introduced to Celtic music which I commemorated on November 3, 2024. Enjoy!

Hello! Sara Hillis here with some scary news! ON tonight's episode of Come by the Hills, we'll be journeying into the realm of the uncanny! Yes, it's our annual Halloween--or is that Hilloween?--special! I've got strange tales of ghostly encounters, meetings with beings from other worlds and even a song inspired by the golden age of British Hammer horror movies. It'll be frighteningly folky fun!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that this week's episode of Come by the Hills is an encore presentation from October 20, 2024. I hope you'll enjoy it!

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

Hello! Sara Hillis here to confess something. I have decided to play hooky tonight from Come by the Hills, but you're getting a cracking Canadian Thanksgiving episode from October 13, 2024 instead. For one thing, it's a long weekend and I'm feeling like just chilling out, and also, I need to watch the Toronto Blue Jays to get over the trauma of their horrible loss to the Seattle Mariners in American League Baseball playoff time in 2022. So, I hope you'll forgive me, and I hope this decision is worth it in terms of the Jays! Go Jays go!

Hello! Sara Hillis here again to give you the scoop on this week's almost-upon-us episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! I've got songs about trees, roads, and one song about The Battle of Cable Street which took place on October 4, 1936, when a large number of workers and other citizens mobilized to prevent Oswald Mosley and his Fascist supporters from holding a rally in London, England. I've got another version of the folk song John Barleycorn in our informal harvest series, and generally a bunch of cracking good tunes which You won't want to miss!

Due to technical difficulties, I have a rerun to play for you tonight instead of the promised new episode of Come by the Hills. It's from September 8, 2024. Enjoy, and see you next week!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to remind you that Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM, comes your way again live from the 7th Floor this Sunday. I've got music to soothe the soul and to set the heart singing, including a segment requested by one listener of songs by women as a salute to another listener's new position of leadership. (I love it when the listeners program my shows for me!) Besides that, I've got the usual mix of styles and genres which has come to epitomize the Come by the Hills experience.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to fill you in on the next fantastic episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! I'll be going live again after last week's unexpected absence, and I'll have lots of work-related songs in honour of Labour Day, which is celebrated on the first Monday in September in both Canada and the United States. Also, it's the final week of the listener-suggested summer feature on Woody Guthrie's recordings from 1940 and 1941 in which we'll hear a song about the Los Angeles New Year's Flood.

Hello all! Sara Hillis here to inform you that today's upcoming episode of Come by the Hills is a rerun from August 25, 2024. This is due to the fact that I am dealing with a whole lot of pain at the moment and will need an early night tonight if I have any hope of getting rid of it. I hope you enjoy the show, whether you've heard it before or not, and I hope to be back in fighting trim next week.

Sara Hillis here to give you the straight goods on this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM. Today, along with yet another collection of great Folk and Celtic tunes, I've got some archival goodies from Woody Guthrie. Just released as "Woody At Home - Vol 1 + 2," they are a collection of tapes that Woody made aroune 1951 for Howie Richmond, his music publisher, and contain demos of a lot of intresting songs. I won't play the whole album, but I will give you a taste of it. What I like about it is that it reveals Woody literally in his house.